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KEY MESSAGES

- Some light snow remains possible across the east into the early afternoon hours.

- Winter-like cold temperatures continue tonight with lows dropping into the mid teens to around 20 degrees; this will approach records and translate to wind chills in the single digits to lower teens around daybreak Tuesday.

- A weak disturbance may bring another round of light snow Tuesday night into early Wednesday (20-40% chance across the north and east). Little to no accumulation is expected.

- Warmer temperatures will return toward the end of the week, with 70s by Thursday continuing thru the weekend and a few 80s appearing here and there not out of the question.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1126 AM CDT Mon Mar 16 2026

Winter like temperatures have settled across the region today along with continued gusty winds and mostly cloudy to cloudy skies. A few light snow showers/flurries have been occurring since the pre-dawn hours and continue late this morning. Temperatures will struggle to reach the mid 30s today for highs and along with the winds will keep wind chills in the teens to 20s. Surface high pressure on the backside of the departing large scale trough develops across the Quad State with continued strong CAA tonight. Low temperatures tonight will drop into the mid teens to lower 20s. A continued northwest wind will lead to windchills in the single digits by Tuesday morning.

We see some warming on Tuesday although not much with highs only making it to the freezing mark in southwest Indiana, and upper 30s to lower 40s elsewhere. Winds will begin to shift to the southwest later in the day, and more southerly by Tuesday night. Tuesday night will feature another night of near to below freezing temperatures for most of the region. A disturbance making its way through the region late Tuesday into Wednesday may bring light snow showers to the area but still think it will be a mostly non-impactful event with any minor accumulations on grassy surfaces. More significant warming occurs by Wednesday and carries through the weekend. By Thursday highs will be back into the 70s, with a few locations seeing near 80 degrees over the weekend. No precipitation chances are expected for the late week and weekend period with ridging to our west.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY/

Issued at 1215 AM CDT Mon Mar 16 2026

Breezy NW winds may gust 25-30kts thru morning as the gradient remains tight behind the recent fropa. CIGS should linger mainly MVFR until late morning, where they lift to VFR in the south but stay borderline VFR/MVFR in the north. Brief periods of light snow with little to no accumulation are possible in the northeast. Winds will relax some over the back half of the forecast, as the pressure gradient starts to loosen up with high pressure building in.

PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

IL...None. MO...None. IN...None. KY...None.