KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Citians are in for quite the range of weather conditions in the next 24 hours.
Predicted high winds and snow accumulations prompted the National Weather Service to place the area in a winter weather advisory for Friday.
But on Thursday, some parts of the area experienced snow and graupel bursts.
41 Action News Chief Meteorologist Gary Lezak said the bursts are essentially small-scale convective showers made up of a combination of raindrops and snowflakes that mix together to form precipitation similar to soft hail.
This is a small scale convective graupel shower. The snow pellets had raindrops and snowflakes mixed and froze together into soft hail! https://t.co/txQbmZwn4M
— Gary Lezak (@glezak) January 14, 2021
The showers are striking because just down the street might be completely blue sky.
Wow! A small but heavy snow/graupel shower in south OP with 45 mph wind gust. Sign of things to come. @WesWeather with details on @41actionnews pic.twitter.com/5ziP2ZAFga
— Jeff Penner (@JeffPennerKSHB) January 14, 2021
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