We're going to get 5.2 inches of snow. Maybe. Possibly. Perhaps.

By James Baughn, Armchair Weather Guesser

Mr. Plow: "Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?"
-- Today's pointless quote from "The Simpsons"

The forecast for the much-anticipated Winter Storm "Bumblebee Man" is still on track. At this point, the best guess is 4-6 inches for Cape Girardeau. The heaviest snow is still expected to just miss Cape to the south, following the Poplar Bluff-Dexter-Sikeston axis with 6-8 inches possible.

Here's a map from the Paducah NWS office giving more precise prognostications. This is a computer-generated guess estimate, which explains why it boldly shows Cape Girardeau receiving exactly 5.2 inches:

After cranking up the Dartboard Forecast System, here is the latest thinking (and by "thinking", I mean "guessing"):

I've also adapted the Dartboard to give the probabilities that stores will be ransacked for bread and/or milk by the end of the day tomorrow. After considerable number-crunching, here is the result: