Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Alberta clipper: A fast-moving low pressure system that sweeps from Alberta, Canada, southeast into the Midwest. In the winter, clippers usually bring an inch or two of low water-content snow and, when intense, can produce blizzards.
———-
Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.
