Winter is still months away, but road crews are already stockpiling salt — millions of pounds of it. 

Accumulation will likely range from a dusting in southern Champaign County to up to five inches in parts of Ford County.

In the wake of a Christmas Eve snowfall that dropped 3.2 inches of snow on the area, the cities of Urbana and Champaign have activated their sidewalk snow removal requirements for certain areas with high pedestrian traffic.

The first measureable snowfall of the season in Champaign-Urbana may come just in time for a white Christmas.

A winter storm moving across the Midwest is forecast to bring as much as 6 to 8 inches of snow to east central Illinois on Wednesday.