A winter storm will take a swing and hit Kansas this weekend.  This powerful and impactful system will bring just about everything from rain, accumulations of freezing rain and sleet to snow. Winds will also ramp up.  With ice and heavy snowfall accumulations on power lines and trees, wind gusts from 35-45 MPH Saturday night into Sunday only add more difficulties.  Travel will be treacherous with near blizzard-like conditions Saturday night into Sunday. The potential for power outages is possible as brutal cold temperatures prepare to enter our region. Clouds begin to spread in our direction overnight and thicken. Temperatures will step back into the freezer.   Drizzle and freezing drizzle start to the south/southwest Saturday morning. What develops in the morning will be light and spotty before the atmosphere moistens further during the afternoon.   Winter Storm Warnings are posted for the highest ice and snowfall accumulations.  This encompasses much of Central and Eastern Kansas through early Sunday night.  A Winter Weather Advisory aligns in the west and along the Oklahoma state line where some icing and snowfall accumulations will occur but will not be as heavy nor thick as it will be farther east.   Saturday afternoon, a warm front tries to lift north over southern Kansas.  This will struggle to reach as far north as Highway 50.  South of this boundary, it will be all rain.  North of this boundary, freezing drizzle and freezing rain will continue.  Sleet is likely over northern Kansas with snow developing in Nebraska.   Temperatures to the north will stay in the 20s during peak heating hours on Saturday and not make it all to the freezing point, enhancing slick travel.   The low will track just south of Kansas over northern Oklahoma and intensify Saturday night through Sunday.  Colder air of Arctic origins will be channeled toward us.  Snow will become much more fruitful over northern and western Kansas Saturday night into Sunday.  Freezing rain and sleet will intensify closer to the low pressure system and just north of the warm front.  I would not be shocked if we see lightning and hear thunder as this system deepens.  This would mean an uptick in ice and snowfall accumulations.   Snow will overspread much of our viewing area with a changeover to all snow by lunch on Sunday for Wichita.  There will be a zone of maximum lift that wraps around the low pressure system.  This is where we will see several inches of snowfall before the storm exits early Sunday night to the east. Ice accumulations will be highest near I-70 from the KC Metro west to Great Bend, down to near Highway 50 over to Emporia.  This area could also extend as far south as Highway 400.  On average, 0.1" to 0.25" of ice is possible with locally higher amounts to 0.4".   On top of the ice, we will have snowfall accumulations.  Wichita and Sedgwick County, by Sunday evening, could see a few inches of snow.  The higher part of this range will be in the northern and western parts of Sedgwick County compared to the south/southeast.  Overall, the highest snowfall accumulations by Sunday night will be along I-70 from Kansas City back to Hays/Great Bend and points north where the potential of obtaining 8" of snow or more is greatest.   After hitting a midnight high on Sunday in the middle 30s, temperatures will crash once the cold front comes through the area.  Temps by Sunday afternoon will be in the teens with wind chills in the single digits to below 0 degrees.  Temperatures will not warm with another reinforcing shot of Arctic air that brings a chance for flurries and light snow to western Kansas on Tuesday.   Highs through Wednesday will remain below freezing.  Some warmth, but not much, will be added to the area on Thursday and into the weekend.  Temps will still stay below average into the following weekend.   KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman:Wichita:Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy. 10% chance of freezing drizzle. Lo: 28 Wind: E 8-18Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy to cloudy, breezy. 70% chance of rain and freezing rain. Hi: 36 Wind: E 10-20Tomorrow Night: Cloudy, windy. 100% chance of rain and freezing rain. Lo: 30 Wind: E 15-25 Wichita WeeklySun: Hi: 36 Lo: 5 Cloudy, windy. 90% chance of freezing rain, sleet and snow.Mon: Hi: 19 Lo: 3 Partly cloudy, breezy.Tue: Hi: 22 Lo: 5 Mostly cloudy.Wed: Hi: 27 Lo: 12 Partly cloudy.Thu: Hi: 33 Lo: 18 Partly cloudy.Fri: Hi: 35 Lo: 19 Mostly cloudy, breezy. --Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman