Triangle to the sand hills and roxboro where a good amount of snow is on the ground. John some schools are closed or opening late. Wake county, durham Public Schools and chapel Hill Carrboro schools closed. Barbara also orange, edgecombe. Franklin, granville. Mecklinburg, person, vance and warren schools closed. Chatham. Clinton. Harnett. Hoke, johnston, lee, moore, robinson, wayne and Wilson County schools. You can find a list on abc11. Com. It is on the link on the home page. Now weather and traffic together. Here is meteorologist Don Schwenneker in the First Alert Storm Center with the latest. Don good morning to you. We will talk advisories and warnings. We have a winter storm warning for orange, person and alamance counties through 9 00 tonight. We have a went weather advisories extended to can 7 00 tonight for most of the middle we have the Winter Weather advisory down south for the southern part of the viewing area until 1 00 because of the anticipating change to more rain earli
P. M. Tonight for Orange County, alamance and Person County. They could get one to three inches of snow. We have Winter Weather advisory the rest of the area in purple. That runs until 1 00 this afternoon where you will see a wintry mix, could see snow, sleet or freezing rain then all rain into the afternoon. Radar . Live look at first first and on the most powerful radar in the carolinas weve got some snow working through. We are seeing a boundary build on this southern edge right here. Here is the boundary as it runs into it. It is lifting into it and that is where we see snowflakes in durham, northern wake to louisburg. Not much in southern wake and favorite not much. You may see a snowflake or two. Temperatures everybody in the below freezing, 23 roxboro, 25 25 goldsboro and 30 in fayetteville. A look at the wind chills, not effecting snow but it is cold. Into the teens through the Northern Counties down into the 20s in the southern counties. Looking at the day ahead 27 now and clo
And the ling is on the home the link is on the home page. Barbara we go to meteorologist Don Schwenneker. Don good morning to you. We are seeing the Winter Weather advisories and warnings extended. A look at what we have going on. Winter storm warning in effect until 7 00 a. M. For person, orange and alamance counties. The pink ones then a Winter Weather advisory from wake north through 7 00 p. M. Tonight because it will take a while for warmer air to get her. 1 00 p. M. For the southern counties. Live look at first alert doppler xp and you can see the precipitation just starting to kind of work its way into the sand hills. Kind of building down here and lifting north and east this boundary running through us at the moment. Northern wake county up to the north is where we see the heavier pockets of snow, sleet an freeze inging and freezing. 21 roxboro, 25 wilson, 28 fayetteville and 27 in sanford. Looking at the day ahead, the temperatures climb from the 20s to the upper 20s. Wintry mi
Seeing any we are not seeing any thunderstorms but you are having it in the southern alamance, southwestern orange, first alert doppler xp the most powerful radar in the carolinas there updating. Southeastern wake county those look a little worse, theyve in garner but they are chores to the radar site. Smithfield and benton villeville showers. It sis to the north and we are seeing the push of moisture like this. Orange county you can expect thunderstorms to work through the next half hour. Chatham county they are weaken weakening as they come through. We have a wind advisory in effect at 9 00 this morning and going to midnight. They could gust up to 45 miles an hour. That is for almost the entire viewing area. It doesnt include Halifax County or mecklinburg county in we look at the day ahead i think it will be bumpy. We have scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder. We will see a push of warm air and we will see rain, wind, thunder possible. 68. This afternoon the alone of shower
Moderate rain working uninto halifax, northampton. Northern nash and southeastern chatham and down into sanford and this will cross southern wake. Not much in orange, alamance same. Light showers up through durham county. Temperatures across the region in the 30s. 36 roxboro, 39 now in oxford and roanoke rapids. 37 louisburg and 38 sanford, 39 fayetteville and 41 smithfield. Looking at the day ahead by lunchtime around 50. We will see clouds lingering through lunch. Late day lots of sunshine and 55 degrees. We will talk more about the sunshine and get the sevenday forecast but now we have weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Amber thanks, don. We have the help of chopper 11 h. D. At 6 00. They just took off from r. D. U. And they are over an issue on 495 northbound at new hope road a car fire a short time ago. I mentioned it the last 10 minutes. The scene. U. S. 64 and 495 northbound at new hope road. Other than that we have some scattered showers to deal with but nothing like we sa