From Weather.com: “a thin band of sleet and/or freezing rain may be laid down from central Missouri into central and northern Illinois, including Chicagoland during the day Thursday. This snowstorm really gets cranked up late Thursday into Friday, spreading a swath of heavy snow from Missouri into Illinois, northern Indiana and Lower Michigan.”
7-13 inches is forecast for our area by Friday night.
Would you believe it was shirtsleeve weather on Tuesday?
Rumen Nation 
Oooo, the bottom of that system is going to sweep right over us here in Tennessee. There will most likely be snow in the mountains. I’m glad to have finally gotten all my pansies planted before it started raining today … snowing tomorrow? I’ll be cozy in my studio.