762 AWUS83 KOAX 021521 RWSOAX IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-022200- WEATHER SUMMARY FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 921 AM CST TUE DEC 2 2008 A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...EASTERN NEBRASKA...AND EASTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING ONE DAY OF FAIR AND MILD WEATHER TO THE REGION. WINTER WILL RETURN TONIGHT...AS A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH FROM THE DAKOTAS ACROSS NEBRASKA AND IOWA. THIS FRONT WILL REACH EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. BEHIND THE FRONT... A BAND OF MIXED PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. A PERIOD OF LIGHT RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL BE POSSIBLE...BEFORE FALLING TEMPERATURES CAUSE A CHANGE TO LIGHT SNOW. AN INCH OR SO OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA...SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHWEST IOWA. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. AS THE SNOW BAND MOVES SOUTH AND EAST ON WEDNESDAY MORNING...AN INCH OR TWO OF ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ACROSS MUCH OF IOWA...AS WELL AS PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI. HIGH TEMPERATURES AROUND THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON WILL LOCALLY BE IN THE 50S...WHILE VARYING WIDELY REGIONALLY FROM 30S IN CENTRAL IOWA AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...TO NEAR 70 IN FAR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... WESTERN KANSAS...AND EASTERN COLORADO. LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL RANGE FROM TEENS IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...TO THE 30S IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHERN IOWA...SOUTHWARD INTO KANSAS AND MISSOURI. && TUESDAY MORNING SKIES WERE MAINLY SUNNY ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. TEMPERATURE READINGS BY 9 AM CST WERE GENERALLY IN THE LOWER 30S. OVERNIGHT LOWS WERE IN THE TEENS AND LOWER 20S... BEFORE RISING AFTER MIDNIGHT. EXTREMES VARIED FROM 12 DEGREES AT WAYNE...UP TO 23 DEGREES AT BEATRICE AND PLATTSMOUTH. MORNING WINDS WERE SOUTH AT MOSTLY 10 TO 15 MPH IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...AND SOUTHWEST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. SOME LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS ABOVE 20 MPH WERE REPORTED AT COUNCIL BLUFFS. $$ POLLACK/KLEMM