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Cold temperatures across the Ozarks today could lead to freezing rain tonight. KSMU’s Melanie Foehrweiser has details on tonight’s weather, and how it compares to this time last year.
Andy Boxell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, says low level moisture will increase as the evening progresses.
“That will eventually result in some areas of freezing drizzle or light freezing rain. Certainly not expecting a major event by any means, but certainly enough to perhaps put a glaze of ice on elevated surfaces tonight.”
Tonight’s low, which is expected to be in the mid-20s, won’t come close to the record low of 10 degrees below zero set in 1963, but it is colder than this time last year.
“This year has certainly been much colder, and…so…perhaps it’s not looked like winter, with [no] snow out there, it has been much cooler and certainly has felt a little bit more like winter compared to what we had last year during the winter of 2011-2012,” says Boxell.
The high temperature on January 24thlast year was 58 degrees.
For KSMU News, I’m Melanie Foehrweiser.