Good morning, we've got a lot going on in the next couple of days so lets dive right in.
ALERT DAYS
We have Alert Days for Tuesday & Wednesday with our incoming winter weather.
Here's a look at Tuesday afternoon. The system should start moving in between 10:00am and Noon Tuesday.
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SNOW TOTALS
Here's a look at the current snow total estimates. Lighter snow to the northwest, heavier snow accumulations possible to the southeast, especially along and south of I-44.
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WINTER STORM WATCH
As such, a Winter Storm Watch runs from Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning for the counties in dark blue.
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BUS STOP FORECAST
Today, it's cold for kids getting on the bus, but we're dry and calm.
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PLANNING YOUR DAY
Here's a look at today's planner - as we remain seasonable with our temperatures and see clouds increase.
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Tonight is cold again, but right around normal for most of us under mostly cloudy skies.
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Your latest extended forecast is below.
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Chris Warner is the morning weather anchor for KOAM, joining the SkyWatch Weather Team in July of 2022. Chris joined the KOAM team in January of 2017. He comes to KOAM after spending several years in retail management across the Joplin area. Before that, he spent nearly five years as a photographer/reporter at KSNF. In his career, he’s covered several breaking news stories, including the Anderson Guest House Fire, the shooting at the Micronesian congregation in Neosho, and more recently the Duck Boat incident in Branson. A Joplin native, Chris has had a passion for broadcasting that goes back to age 5 when he hung a news logo he made on a wall and repeated the news he just watched on TV. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews in his lifetime with Governors, Senators, mothers, fathers, and even 5 year olds. He took his passion for broadcasting to high school where he anchored and reported for the launch of Joplin High School’s JET 14 in 2005. There, he won the school’s first ever First Place for News at the Missouri Southern Student Showcase for a story on the school district’s upcoming bond issue. Growing up, Chris was terrified of thunderstorms and figured the best way to overcome that fear, was to learn as much about the weather as he could. Over the years, he studied the weather independently. Now, instead of just giving the weather to his family and friends, he’s bringing it to you Monday through Friday on the KOAM Morning News. Chris is married to Amber, a Carthage native. Together, they have three children that Chris considers the most important story of his life.
