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Snow Forecasted For Central Illinois Wednesday PM-Thursday

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Snow along University Avenue in Champaign in late 2019.
  • Photo: Reginald Hardwick/Illinois Newsroom

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Central Illinois, including Champaign-Urbana, Danville and Decatur. 

It is in effect Wednesday 11:00 a.m.-Thursday 10:00 a.m. 

Meteorologists are predicting the area will receive 4-to-6 inches of snow.  Snowfall will be at its heaviest on Wednesday night.

The advisory area includes Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, McLean, Piatt and McLean counties.

 

Click here for a map of road conditions from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

After the snow storm, bitterly cold temperatures return. Sub-zero wind chills will settle in this weekend.

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Reginald Hardwick

Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director at Illinois Public Media. He oversees daily newscasts and online stories. He also manages The 21st Show, a live, weekday talk show that airs on six NPR stations throughout Illinois. He is the executive producer of IPM's annual environmental TV special "State of Change." And he is the co-creator of Illinois Soul, IPM's Black-focused audio service that launched in February 2024. Before arriving at IPM in 2019, he served as News Director at WKAR in East Lansing and spent 17 years as a TV news producer and manager at KXAS, the NBC-owned station in Dallas/Fort Worth. Reginald is the recipient of three Edward R. Murrow regional awards, seven regional Emmy awards, and multiple honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Vietnam, Reginald grew up in Colorado and is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado. Email: rh14@illinois.edu Twitter: @RNewsIPM