EVANSVILLE — The snow has finally stopped. Now we have a new problem.
The National Weather Service says the tri-state area will face several days of dangerously cold, sometimes sub-zero temperatures over the next few days.
Residents of Evansville and Henderson, Ky., woke up to The temperature will be about 2 degrees lower on Monday morning. However, the wind chill was much worse. Breeze and snow left The temperature feels as low as minus 15 degrees.
That was enough for the National Weather Service’s Paducah, Ky., office to place Evansville, all of western Kentucky and much of southern Illinois under an extreme cold warning Tuesday morning. Wind chill could drop to minus 20 degrees.
“Frostbite and hypothermia can occur if unprotected skin is exposed to such temperatures,” the National Weather Service advisory reads.
Even after the extreme cold warning is lifted, frigid temperatures will continue. According to the NWS forecast, low temperatures from Wednesday to Saturday will hover between 2 degrees and minus 4 degrees.
When does the snow melt in Evansville?
What this all means is that the 12-and-a-half inches of snow that blanketed Evansville, making side streets and even some major roads impassable, will remain in some form for several days.
The hottest temperature in Evansville all week will be around 27 degrees. It should arrive sometime Tuesday afternoon. Combined with mostly sunny weather, this may be enough to remove some of the snow, but the vast majority will remain.
High temperatures will remain in the upper 20s to teens for the rest of the week.
This article originally appeared in the Evansville Courier: When does the snow melt in Evansville?