How Much Snow Is Omaha Supposed To Get

A Winter Weather Advisory will be in effect Sunday into Monday morning for most of the viewing area. Light snow fell overnight and early Sunday north of the metro. Some roads are already snow-covered and slippery from Columbus to West Point, then east through Denison.The light snow slowly drops south and east Sunday. Accumulating snow should begin in the metro after about 3 or 4 PM Sunday afternoon. Driving conditions should be fine through that time.Bands of steadier snow will be possible through the evening, overnight, and into early Monday. Expect to see impacts to roads by Sunday evening in the metro as temperatures drop. Currently 2" to 4" inches of snow is possible in the metro by Monday morning. There is a wider range right now with the potential for heavier snow bands.Expect 3" to 6" of snow north and west of the metro with most of the accumulation during the day Sunday. 3" to 6" of snow is also possible southwest of the metro with most of the accumulation coming from heavier snow bands Sunday night into Monday morning. These ranges could be adjusted as the system gets closer.With wet snow falling throughout the night and wind gusts up to 30 mph, there is potential for snapped tree limbs and power outages with it still being October and most trees still having their leaves. Expect impacts on the roads for Monday morning's commute too. Stay tuned for updates from the Weather Now team throughout the weekend.BELOW: City of Omaha Engineer Todd Pfitzer speaks about preparations for the winter weather this weekend"We are going to go ahead and brine. So, our pretreatment, whatever you choose to call it but we're going to start that operation at about noon on Saturday. And then we'll, we'll stay in that operation, until the moisture arrives on Sunday," Pfitzer said. "What it does is it stops the snow or the ice from adhering so tightly to the pavement. So it doesn't melt it off a lot of people thinks that it melts the material off it does not, but it keeps it from kind of sticking to the concrete so it allows our blades to push it off and it leaves the kind of that little micro layer of slush underneath and we found it very effective to getting the roads back to drivable without so much then rock salt over there freezing."

Winter Weather Advisory

The light snow slowly drops south and east Sunday. Accumulating snow should begin in the metro after about 3 or 4 PM Sunday afternoon. Driving conditions should be fine through that time.

Bands of steadier snow will be possible through the evening, overnight, and into early Monday. Expect to see impacts to roads by Sunday evening in the metro as temperatures drop. Currently 2" to 4" inches of snow is possible in the metro by Monday morning. There is a wider range right now with the potential for heavier snow bands.

Snow totals

Expect 3" to 6" of snow north and west of the metro with most of the accumulation during the day Sunday. 3" to 6" of snow is also possible southwest of the metro with most of the accumulation coming from heavier snow bands Sunday night into Monday morning. These ranges could be adjusted as the system gets closer.

Snow timeline

With wet snow falling throughout the night and wind gusts up to 30 mph, there is potential for snapped tree limbs and power outages with it still being October and most trees still having their leaves. Expect impacts on the roads for Monday morning's commute too. Stay tuned for updates from the Weather Now team throughout the weekend.

BELOW: City of Omaha Engineer Todd Pfitzer speaks about preparations for the winter weather this weekend

"We are going to go ahead and brine. So, our pretreatment, whatever you choose to call it but we're going to start that operation at about noon on Saturday. And then we'll, we'll stay in that operation, until the moisture arrives on Sunday," Pfitzer said. "What it does is it stops the snow or the ice from adhering so tightly to the pavement. So it doesn't melt it off a lot of people thinks that it melts the material off it does not, but it keeps it from kind of sticking to the concrete so it allows our blades to push it off and it leaves the kind of that little micro layer of slush underneath and we found it very effective to getting the roads back to drivable without so much then rock salt over there freezing."