Another midweek snow is about to follow up by a weekend warmup in central Illinois.

While the midweek storm was not what forecasters thought it might be, it left several central Illinois schools unable to allow kids to come to class. Chris Miller at the National Weather Service says the snow accumulation was not as significant as they thought it would be but Wednesday winds cause blowing and drifting snow in rural parts of the area.

Miller indicates the month of February has epitomized the wild winter we've experienced from the first weekend in February for the Super Bowl and it has stayed that way almost the whole month.

The pattern of a cold midweek with some precipitation and then a warm-up over the weekend will continue as we hit the first of March this weekend with Sunday temperatures expected in the 60s.

Rainfall totals in the early part of next week could see an inch or more in central Illinois with the highest totals in southern Illinois where they could see up to five inches of rain and that will impact rivers that have or on the verge of flooding.