WEATHER UPDATE: Heaviest snowfall now expected Monday night

Staff Report

Though the Mahoning Valley dodged a big snowball Sunday, forecasts show the real pummeling is on the way Monday night.

Kristen Schuler, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, said about 2 to 4 inches of snow is expected in the Youngstown area today with an additional 3 to 7 inches tonight.

“It will be locally heavy in some locations due to the lake effect,” Schuler said. “It’s a matter of how lake effect bands are going to set up.”

That’s on top of the one to three inches that were forecast to fall Sunday night.

It will be worse in Trumbull County. NWS’s Web site shows that some areas in the northern part of the county could get 4 to 8 inches today and another 4 to 8 inches tonight.

Parts of Columbiana County will see less snow with 2 to 4 inches expected today with another 1 to 2 inches tonight. That county won’t be spared from the frigid temperatures though with a wind chill of 4 degrees below 0 expected tonight.

And it still won’t be over.

The snow showers will persist Tuesday, tapering Tuesday evening. Wind chill values as low as two below zero are expected Tuesday with a high of 12 Tuesday night, NWS’s Web site shows. The winter storm warning remains in effect through 7 a.m. Wednesday.