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Of places, but you know about st. louis and it's all about the ice. >> reporter: absolutely really is. probably the best way to show you the ice is to, well, show you the ice. let's take a look at this. here's one of the many branches that we have in the area, one of the many trees. this thing is just coated top to bottom with tons of ice. the amazing thing is how heavy this tends to be. a tree that stands 40 feet can have up to four tons of ice on it. when you have the winds pick up, which is exactly what we anticipate later today and into the evening hours, a lot of these trees are going to ...

It mildly today. it is just awful out there. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, here in st. louis, tamron, it's not so much snow as it is sleet. you go about 20 miles west of here, it's been snowing at a clip of two inches an hour. but here it's sleet. what's on the ground here, ice pellets. this is sleet. so the -- that snow is likely to come, it's this way, and the fear is that when it does, all of that snow on top of ice that's accumulated on trees and power lines, couple that with winds tomorrow forecast to be up to 40 miles an hour, they're worried about power lines coming down, tree ...

Warnings for st. louis, kansas city, tulsa, little rock, over to memphis, just outside of nashville and minneapolis. today's temperatures easily 9501950 to 100 degrees. the heat will slide to the east. i know you've been waiting for the heat to return. >> oh, yeah. we haven't had enough heat for the summer. >> you're welcome. >> thank you very much. coming up at 12:00 eastern time, my colleague contessa brewer will will talk to that storm chaser who caught the amazing minnesota twister on tape. talk all about his incredible experience today at noon. well, it it's the middle of august and g...

Weather center. j.d. >> reporter: the good news is we're going to get snow for your bee loved colorado rockies. there's the system we're talking about. and anywhere from six to 12 inches across the rockies. we have winter weather advisories for parts of the mountains, utah, colorado, and wyoming. let's close in on where we're seeing the freezing rain advisories for parts of north dakota. sleet, ice pellets, freezing rain overnight tonight, that's going to bring dangerous conditions to the roadways. so we'll keep you updated. jon, back to you. jon: janice, nicole, melanie, thank you very much. ...

Most moisture meets up with coldest air and we've seen that focusing in central mississippi and south central parts of alabama. the thinking on this, normally when you live in these states and you get a snow event, it's the northern part of those states that typically get it especially in higher elevations here and so it's kind of weird for a lot of people to be, what, it's down here to the south? i have to go south to get some of the heaviest of snow. that's going to be something that folks are going to be dealing with. jackson, mississippi, a couple inches. you're probably going to get anoth...