The National Weather Service says several locations in Kansas saw record-breaking cold temperatures on Tuesday.

Tuesday brought Topeka its lowest temperatures in almost four years, with the mercury plunging to minus 12 degrees.

As much as 10.5 inches of snow fell late Thursday and early Friday in Kansas, the National Weather Service said.

The weather service says Kansas City has a low chance, less than 40%, of a dusting of snow and less than a 2% chance of seeing an inch of snow. Counties on the southern border of the Kansas City forecast area — Pettis, Henry, Bates and Linn counties — and surrounding areas are expected to see higher snowfall amounts.

The coldest air of the season will begin filtering into the area Friday night, according to the National Weather Service. From Sunday to Tuesday, wind Chills are expected to bottom out between -10 and -20 degrees each morning and only reach the single digits in the afternoon.

It should be cold, but nothing like the current arctic chill, when the Bills play in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for parts of the Kansas City area beginning Thursday evening.

The National Weather Service has the entire KSHB 41 viewing area included in a cold weather advisory from 6 p.m. Monday through noon Tuesday.

The Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills face off in the Divisional Round of the playoffs this Sunday at Highmark Stadium in New York. The last time this happened was in the 2020

More than 170 million people across the United States, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border are under cold weather alerts ahead of a crippling winter storm expected to sweep through the south from Texas to Georgia,

The Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen host the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson in the final game of the divisional round of the NFL playoffs on Sunday.