EVANSVILLE – When you wake up Sunday morning, the winter storm is already here. However, what you will see from your window is still uncertain.

National Weather Service forecasters expect unrest to occur in the Evansville area late Saturday evening into early Sunday and continuing into Monday. Starting Thursday, Vanderburgh County should see a mix of snow, sleet and — worst of all — freezing rain.

But “the models are still not completely consistent,” NWS meteorologist Rachel Trevino told the Courier & Press Thursday morning. The storm’s path could shift and drastically change the type of precipitation that would be seen in the area. Heavy snow is expected in the north and light rain in the south.

The updated bulletin sent Thursday morning from the NWS office in Paducah, Kentucky, did not include an exact timing of the storm or predicted rainfall amounts. They expect clearer details by Friday, wrote senior meteorologist Keith Cooley.

Whatever comes, it will likely impact travel — and possibly power outages. The latter could lead to a “very serious situation,” senior meteorologist Derrick Snyder said in a bulletin Wednesday, especially given the biting cold expected to hit the area after Monday’s storm. Lows could fall into the single digits.

When people talk about freezing rain and power outages, they inevitably go back to the devastating ice storm of 2009, which killed 35 people across the Midwest and left 700,000 people in the region without power, sometimes for weeks.

As of Thursday, Trevino said, the NWS forecasts showed nothing that serious.

“We can see some areas where there will be issues, but we’re not dealing with those things at this time,” she said. “But it’s always good to remember what that was like and be prepared.”

This article originally appeared on the Evansville Courier & Press: A winter storm is coming this weekend. Will there be snow or ice in Evansville?