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Rain now, snow later
Commuters wait at a salted Barrington Metra Station during the light rain on Thursday morning. (Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune /February 7, 2013)
A freezing rain advisory is in effect this morning for the Chicago area, which could then get hit by some snow by tonight.
At 7 a.m., freezing rain was being reported across northeast Illinois, mainly along I-88 and north of the expressway, according to the National Weather Service.
State police were reporting no major problems on expressways and tollways, though side streets in some areas were slick with ice.
The advisory is in effect until 10 a.m. "By then it should be warm enough that there shouldn't be a threat of additional freezing rain," said Andrew Krein, a weather service meteorologist. "It will be warming up so. . .mostly rain all day.
"We're hovering around 32 degrees but warmer air is not too far away, and it won't be long before it moves in," Krein said.
There's a chance of up 1-3 inches of snow this evening and overnight, with lows in the upper 20s, the weather service said.
Chicago fanned out 199 plow trucks across the city this morning, "salting the city's main streets as needed," according to the Streets and Sanitation Department. as a storm system moves across the area," according to the streets department.
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