Snow showers the next in line is the brutal cold and the president s day storm monday morning. Here is what the radar looks like not a lot falling right now. Some of you had snow showers and enough to put down a dusting in our South Carolina counties. But that has exited off to the east. Cloudy and a flurry or two in the mountains as we take you through the evening. Definitely cold. Much colder than yesterday. 36 in charlotte and we have a new fresh shot of arctic air moving in. Look at the temperatures off to the northwest as you get up towards minneapolis, 10 , 8 in winnipeg, canada and that is the direct ton that our air is coming from. That air will be put in place by the time the storm rolls in here monday morning. We will get into this in detail but its looking like for charlotte this does start as a brief period of snow by day break monday morning changing over to a mix. Accumulation up to two inches at best that we are forecasting for charlotte before this ends as rain monday e
Have an overturned van, so they are beginning to clear that accident scene, but if youre coming on the outer loop heading toward brookshire boulevard and down toward pineville, you are going to find that inner lane closed because of that accident scene. Again, that is oakdale on the outer loop of 485. Volume light, not seeing any significant delays, well keep our eye on that accident. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, 485, primarily looks good, 77, 85, no significant problems, down to our south we have an accident on i77 southbound at anderson road, that is highway 21, most of the delays that were seeing are there along anderson road. That is a check of the morning commute, christine, over to you. Christine department of transportation crews spending the weekend treating the roads across the charlotte region in advance of the Winter Weather. This morning they continue to monitor conditions as things will worsen later. Kristen hampton live in have you since seen crews out while
Rain uprooted trees. This tree fell on queens road in charlotte. There are similar scenes across the charlotte area and Pamela Escobar joins us live from willmore neighborhood centuries down today and the next sound you hear could be chainsaws . That is right. You will need chainsaws for this tree on top of this car. The trunk did see chainsaws because it fell at 8 00 a. M. And neighbors tell me that they are not blaming the winds but saying all the rain that weve had has affected the ground. As you saw this massive tree in edgehill park fell at lunchtime on to queens road. Neighbors say no one was hurt and it did not hit a house burt it will take sometime to clear the debris. Strong winds and weak roots caused other trees to fall and property was not spared. This house on West Boulevard was the tree came out of the ground as the treetopled over. People love living in these areas but when the storms come through this can be the result. Relived here 25 years ago that hugo came through a
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
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