URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI

VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-BARRY

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO

4 AM EST WEDNESDAY...

IMPACTS...

* ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SNOW COVERED BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON

POSSIBLY IMPACTING THE TAIL END OF THE COMMUTE HOME.

* TRAVEL WILL BE MOST SEVERELY IMPACTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND

NIGHT AS SNOW... BLOWING SNOW...AND RAPIDLY FALLING

TEMPERATURES OCCUR NEAR THE TIME OF THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE. NEAR

BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE

EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 131.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

* IT WOULD BE BEST NOT TO TRAVEL THIS EVENING OR FROM LATE

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

* IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND

WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

* A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...

SLEET...OR FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE

PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND

USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.