Mid Missouri and Midwest in for a massive temperature drop!

UPDATE: The temperature did drop from 63 @ 2 pm to 38 @ 3 pm. Stuff falling from the sky looks sort of white too. Time to do things that require electricity, I did go get kerosene.

This from the National Weather service.

FINALLY...A DRASTIC DROP IN TEMPERATURES
WILL OCCUR ONCE THE
FRONT PASSES THROUGH ANY PARTICULAR
LOCATION TONIGHT. AS A
MATTER OF FACT...
A ONE HOUR TEMPERATURE DROPS OF
25 TO 35 DEGREES
CAN NOT BE RULED OUT.
LINK

I don't think the forecasters are smoking anything wacky so it should be an interesting evening. It's 65 degrees here now, the wind is gusting up to 45 mph and it's just cloudy, by this evening we are supposed to have freezing rain changing to sleet and snow, 1/4 inch of ice possible with up to 1 inch of snow and sleet on top of it. Of course last winters ice storm took care of most of the weak branches on trees but I know the temp drop can cause problems of it's own.

So it's a holly jolly pre Christmas season. Think I will sweep the floor (the kittens have discovered what fun it is to drag stuff out of trash cans), take out the trash, and head to town after some kerosene for the heater after I make sure it's in the basement. Oh what fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight!!!!!! Oh and husband is unloading in Oklahoma City tonight and then going to try to make it home, if it's too bad he's just heading up I-44 and trying to go pick up the next load in IL. I remember MS, nothing to worry about but weak tornadoes and hurricanes with bigger tornadoes. OK flooding but that wasn't like ICE.