(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The forecast for central Illinois is dialed down a bit but is still fearsome.
The National Weather Service in Lincoln has adjusted the forecast snow total down to 2 or 3 inches.
But the outcome, says warning coordination meteorologist Ed Shimon, won't be different in any significant way from the earlier forecast.
"This is about impacts and not about a number," Shimon said during an online briefing Wednesday.
He said the snowfall will begin in the late morning Thursday and bring about a half-inch per hour.
A winter storm warning is in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Saturday.
Thursday night to Friday night, travel is expected to be difficult to impossible, he said.
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