Dangerous cold begins overnight and continues throughout Saturday. Saturday morning will begin with temperatures feeling like negative numbers. A cold weather advisory is in place overnight through Saturday morning due to life-threatening cold. Saturday will be frigid, with temperatures only feeling like the single digits. However, Saturday is the final day for major snow storm preparations.

Eight to 14 inches of snow is possible throughout the city. Exact amounts will come down to placement of this storm, which will determine how much of wintery mix and sleet will be seen during Sunday afternoon and night. The precipitation will start late Saturday night into early Sunday with fluffy, stackable snow along with intense snowfall rates. This is where the snow will pick up some major amounts of accumulation. At some point during the afternoon or evening, sleet will try to make an appearance. Depending on how much of this will be seen, it has the potential to pack down the snow that the city has already picked up. This will also mean there will be a thick layer of fluffy snow, then a layer of icy crustiness, then another layer of snow as the precipitation changes back to snow early on Monday.

The National Weather Service has upgraded that winter storm watch to a winter storm warning due to the potential for significant snow and major problems from sleet and ice. This goes from 3 a.m. Sunday through 6 p.m. Monday.

This will be a major snowstorm with lingering impacts. Travel will be problematic or downright impossible at times. Well below-freezing temperatures mean that that snow is not going anywhere anytime soon. Residents will want to shovel and clean off their cars as often as they can on Sunday and into Monday, otherwise they'll be trying to clear chunks of ice and frozen blocks of snow.