Roads. Could make for some slick spots. John copies of energy coming across north carolina. Most of the snow in the northern foothills, greensboro, winstonsalem, hickory. You may have seen a couple flurries. But thats it. All the precipitation is caught falling through dry air in place. Different story for the northern mountains. Chris the evaporation is moistening up the atmosphere. Very dry. John it will take a while for the precipitation to reach the ground outside the mountains. In the mountains, we will see it is snowing pretty good in boone. Chris watauga, avery, yancey county, mitchell county, seeing pretty good snow. John burnsville at bakers bill, another 13 inches this evening. This is the future plus map. Mountains. We get a bit of a low here, so if you have plans across. This evening, you are in good shape. Patches of freezing rain in the upstate. Chris it will not be a widespread rain. It will be patchy. We are well below freezing first thing in the morning. Look what happ
In the purple area, or actually the gray area, a Winter Weather advisory because it is rain mixed with sleet and snow to start with. Fairly light expected in these areas. The heaviest precipitation will be in the wind in the winter storm warning in the northern mountains and foothills of North Carolina, 36 inches of snow and sleet mixed, and freezing rain before it comes to an end tomorrow night. Then, it becomes all rain, heavy at times. 13 in boone, 22 in asheville, upper 20s in greenville, spartanburg, and anderson. Cold enough that when the precipitation rise overnight tonight and during the early morning, it will be patchy. But it will still be cold. The precipitation coming in 8 00 a. M. , not a lot of precipitation. Patches of light sleet or freezing rain in the upstate, 25 degrees. Light snow mixed with sleet from time to time, 21 in the mountains. It gets worse through the day. Detail later on. Mike valentines day was a good day to stay inside with someone special, after snow
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