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'Unexpected' snowfall dusts Springfield

Giacomo Bologna
Snow could fall in Springfield Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

After a week of temperatures reaching into the 60s and 70s, an "unexpected" snowfall dusted the Springfield area Sunday morning, said a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Drew Albert said snow was expected to fall nearby, but not in Springfield.

"We didn't expect it to get this far east," Albert said. "It was snowing at a pretty good clip there for a while, but it didn't really accumulate on the ground."

The temperature remained several degrees above freezing throughout the morning, he said, so snow may have stuck to cars or grass, but it didn't take long to melt.

"It's just gonna be a trace," Albert said.

North of Bolivar and south around Branson were spared from the flakes, Albert said, but the heavy snowfall affected visibility in Springfield for a while.

Albert noted he had seen a fair amount of posts on social media about the unexpected flurry.