Al the same area of low pressure some of our nemesis the last several days, lifting northward, still getting snow showers in the mountains. The wind is still howling, 40 Miles Per Hour and with temperatures in the 20s, that is a perfect recipe for schools to be delayed. Winter weather advisory in effect, ashe county, watauga, avery, mitchell, yancey until 7 00. That is a chance it could be extended the snow will likely keep on for a while this morning and of course the winds will be very slow to abate as well. That is king street in boone from resortcams. Com, i have been watching the snow fall. 27 in boone, 37 hickory, salisbury, 36 charlotte, 35 rock hill, 32 lancaster and 36 around wadesboro. For today, outside of the mountains, a pretty day but chilly day, 36 at 8 00, 47 lunch time, getting back to 51 this afternoon, despite almost total sunshine. The problem is we dont warm up very much. Well do that by the weekend and then some. So stick around if you like warmer conditions. Your
41 seems to be a popular number from shelby, morganton, rock hill, charlotte, monroe, albermarle, salisbury and statesville, colder in boone at 29, not getting reports out of lancaster and chester, they had Power Outages this way. Partly to mostly sunny, windy, wont be damage like yesterday but still wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour in the piedmont, 55 Miles Per Hour in the mountains and afternoon temperature of 56 degrees. Remember, youre never more than and traffic on wbtv news this heres chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic this morning is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. And were getting going early with the morning accident here just down to the south of gilead road, that is mccoy atkin see avenue, ifat kinseyavenue, new in the last 5, 10 minutes. I77 at west boulevard, freeways once again volume light, running clearly this morning so you see a whole lot of green out there 485, 77, 85 look okay, providence road, independence, no problems as
Good information here. Reporter good morning, john. Yeah, a lot of these things are common sense but we spoke with experts at michael son, they say people forget to do it all time and ends up costs thousands of damage to the home. Get right to it, the folks at michael son tell us you should let the faucets drip if they are on an outside wall. Also leave your cabinets open so the warm air cancer can can circulate. Garden hosts should not be connected to the faucets. This is the no. 1 device that will freeze and cause an issue. Get out there and disconnect the hoses. Lastly, if a disaster does happen, know where the main shut off valve is to your home, that way all the tips put together you can protect yourself until below freezing weather. Reporting live in uptown charlotte, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. John wherever you plan to go weather app with you. You can check the forecast right on your mobile device. Christine now to campaign 2016, were nine days away from the republican pr
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It is gigantic. It is out here laying across two lanes heading away the city of charlotte. Crews cut down the right hand part of the tree heading queens road northbound lanes. Cars could head in the city but the rest of it, obviously still here this morning. Well have to look at alternate routes because you obviously cant get through if youre leaving the city i want to send it over to chris larson in the traffic center. How do you get around the big tree . Chris traffic is sponsored by toyota of North Charlotte. So again as mark said, if youre heading northbound on queens road, no problems, it is southbound toward more head where we have the obstruction so likely hermitage down to Edge Hill Road would get you around that. Or could you take baxter street through the cherry neighborhood that would get you back over to kings drive. These are outbound heading toward morehead street where we have that block age there. Lets take a live look, i77 at clanton road, volume is light up here in th