And we began at five with the state of emergency in effect right now in the california county just west of las vegas. The fire that flied up flared up has a scorched 65,000 acres and shows no sign of letting up. Marie so many people caught in the mill. More than 84,000 people have been forced out of their homes including the entire community of wrightwood. Fire tallied the number of homes and other structures that have been wiped out by the flames. And this fire is still zero percent contained. Jim long battle ahead and give you some perspective on this. This is the sky over the city of in california. You see the orange glow from the flames, the smoke completely blocking out the sun and making it very difficult to see anything on the ground too. Marie the fire disaster is the california town. Just to give you an idea of where i am, i am right off the 138 between and wrightwood. I will say was going on behind me. Theres air support overhead, there are pockets of fire here but just about
Throughout the day. The timeframe for the Severe Threat from 10 00 am until 6 00 pm. We are in cooler temperatures in Central North Carolina and the blue. 46 raleigh, 45 durham the warmer air moving in and this will fuel storm throughout the taper 51 fayetteville, 33 clayton 49 goldsboro. 40 8 00 am, rain likely for morning commute, watch for quarter ponding and dense fog. Storms possible at lunchtime, damaging wind gust this afternoon. Cannot rule out isolated tornadoes. High of 70. Drop into the mid60s by 6 00 pm and the rain will move east by this point in time. More on the storm threat coming lets check in with traffic. You can clearly see how dense the fog is that this is i504. Allow for extra time. Remember low beams. I want to show you wrote in text where you are seeing yellow that is where we are doing with foggy conditions. Across wake county, germ county and grandville, vance, Franklin County where we see green siler city, sanford urc wet roads and water ponding on the roadwa
Lightning by producing a lot of rain. Exiting portions of granville and vance counties around the area. Were talking all morning about needing warmer temperatures into fuel storms. The temperatures have client within the last hour. 48 raleigh, 51 boynton, clinton 60. Expecting after 70s. Rain likely at 8 00 am, 48 degrees. As chance for Severe Weather 10 am to 6 00 pm. Best chances around noon. 69, 70 afternoon high. Damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes possible, back to 66 by 6 00 pm. More on the timing and threats that will hit your neighborhood coming up in your complete forecast. Aviation parkway, fog, rain will slow you down this morning. Your morning commute will take you a little longer. Take the umbrella with you as you head for the door. I want to show you conditions where you are living. Where you are seeing yellow we are dealing with foggy conditions. Around vance county, Warren County that is mixed in with rain around Franklin County and raleigh. Where we see blue that i
Keep in mind if you are going to have for lunch there are dangerous conditions with strong wind gusts. Isolated tornadoes, the storm threat right over us at 3 00 pm. The 70 our afternoon high and back to 66. Rain to taper off at 6 00 pm. More on this forecast in a little bit. Look at the traffic. This is i 504 at 6 forks road, a foggy site. Seeing some rain falling. That will slow you down. We had two accidents in the raleigh area. The first on trent 8 your capital blvd. And another one in downtown raleigh near the intersection of city farm road. Be on the alert there and not many cars out to not causing a lot of delays. Extract check in 20 minutes. Team coverage of the sprat. Threat. Reporter a lot of School Districts keeping an eye on the roads and we are in Chatham County and one of the districts really keeping an eye on things and they say there is potential they may call school out early. However you can see they are starting at the buses. For right now they have things starting o
Mississippi through alabama and georgia. It has weakened some, but the impact here tonight do not look like they have changed much as we headed to tomorrow. This is not the snow, and sleep we had a week ago. This is also not the Severe Weather outbreak we had five years ago that brought 30 tornadoes to the state. I got that question a few times tonight. It is our biggest threat of Severe Weather, so far this season. Even though it is still f ebruary. Tonight, all is calm, not a lot showing up on the radar, but it is still cloudy, foggy, misty and drizzly outside. Its still chilly. One of the things that is going to start this whole process that leads us into tomorrow is this warm front. That will move through, and bring us unusually warm weather around 70 degrees tomorrow. It is also going to bring us that unusual threat of Severe Weather in late february. This area of low pressure will slide over North Carolina, combined with the moist air and warm energized atmosphere to bring us the