Heavy snow piles up in the Midwest

AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Illinois on the afternoon of Jan. 12 as snow poured down at rates of several inches an hour.

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00:00 We want to head further west to that intense storm that is tracking through the Midwest too

00:05 and bringing some heavy snow and we're joined by Tony Laubach.

00:09 Tony, what are you finding now in Illinois and Iowa there?

00:13 Snowflakes that make sound when they hit you.

00:18 That is how big and heavy these snowflakes are coming down right now.

00:21 You can see here in Rock Falls, I believe is what I said it is,

00:25 the snow falls and it feels like rocks because these are big snowflakes.

00:29 But this is light compared to what I saw just off to the east here.

00:33 Check out just how incredibly heavy this snow was coming down.

00:38 This is rates, folks. We're talking 2 to 3 inches per hour.

00:42 And in some areas, it is snowing that long, one hour.

00:46 And we're seeing a quick 2 to 3 inches of snow coming down.

00:49 We've already picked up almost a foot in Davenport, which is just about an hour off to the west here.

00:54 And we're seeing that snow continue just to come down in just absolute torrents of heavy, heavy snow.

01:01 US 30, I just drove down here on.

01:04 A couple of cars off on the median, but as I talked about in the previous hit

01:07 and when we come back live to me here, I'll show you really the one thing that's kind of working in our advantage right now.

01:12 This is going out into the parking lot. Roads right now are just wet,

01:15 but we are expecting winds to increase and the temperatures to decrease.

01:19 So conditions bad now going to get a whole lot worse in the next several hours.

01:24 All right, Tony, we appreciate you being out there in the elements for us.

01:27 And we'll continue to check in with you as the evening goes on.

01:30 Thank you so much.