Winter storm to bring more snow to Kansas City

Robert A. Cronkleton, The Kansas City Star on Jan 9, 2025

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Snow is now expected to reach the Kansas City metro from a winter storm pushing across the southern United States overnight Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

While initial forecasts indicated the metro would likely only see a dusting with minimal overall impacts, the weather service reported that Kansas City’s chance of snow increased significantly overnight.

Most of the metro will see less than 2 inches of snow. The weather service indicated it would not be surprised if there were pockets of 2 to 3 inches of snowfall along and south of Interstate 70.

Kansas City International Airport, for example, has an 85% chance of snowfall exceeding .1 of an inch, according to data from the weather service. The probability of higher snowfall totals drops rapidly, with only a 50% chance of snowfall exceeding 1 inch. The chance of 2 inches or more of snow is less than 10%.

Meanwhile, Overland Park has a 71% chance that snowfall will exceed 1 inch and a 32% chance it will exceed 2 inches.

Further south, the chance that Clinton will see more than an inch of snow is 90%, with a 60% chance that snowfall totals will exceed 2 inches. The opportunity for the city to get 4 inches or more is 1%.

Using data from the weather service, The Star recreated some weather service charts showing possible snowfall totals at locations across the metro. See the probabilities of snowfall exceeding specific amounts by hovering over the chart for your city. The dashed lines indicates the expected snowfall total.