Thursday Evening Weather Updated: 4:08 PM CST Dec 17, 2020 Updated: 4:08 PM CST Dec 17, 2020
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Show Transcript all right. Finally, some sunshine. It felt good, but it s gonna feel even better tomorrow. We got a cold night ahead as well today. Well, we started off with some clouds in parts of the area, but they did evaporate very quickly. And as we head through the afternoon on almost cloudless skies and now tonight, the center of the chilly air mass will be right on it. So it s gonna cool down even with clear skies. Memphis struggling to 40. So this was a cold air mass that was on top of us down on the Gulf Coast, 48 Biloxi, New Orleans, struggling to get to 50. All right, Susan sun goes down, the temperature will go down quickly. Ground is damp when you re gonna become heavy frost first thing Friday morning. In some instances, it may look the frost maybe so thick it may actually look like we ve had a dusting of snow. Sunshine warms up nicely t
in the charlotte area. raleigh wasn t much better. and then the picturesque but dangerous part of the storm has been the ice accumulations. and even tourist locations. charleston, south carolina, myrtle beach area, augusta, georgia. at this hour, we have half a million people without power and the temperature is about 30 degrees. that s about half a million people scrambling to find a location with heat to keep their family and kids safe as they go throughout their night tonight and tomorrow morning. that s where we ve been. now let me take you to where we re going. we have winter storm warnings all the way to northern a al. it was just snowing hard in birmingham of all places. then we re going to go all the way to friday afternoon into maine. here s how the storm is playing out. we have two pieces of the puzzle coming together. they are going to merge off the east coast, a classic scenario for a big east coast storm. then we ll get our nor easter forming tonight.
birmingham of all places. then we re going to go all the way to friday afternoon into maine. here s how the storm is playing out. we have two pieces of the puzzle coming together. they are going to merge off the east coast, a classic scenario for a big east coast storm. then we ll get our nor easter forming tonight. moving up the eastern seaboard for tomorrow. and that is going to leave us with some very impressive snow totals. as of now, we still have freezing rain in birmingham. now the heaviest snow is shifting northwards. not a good time to be on the roads. virginia, overnight in virginia, stay off the roads. even around washington, d.c., stay off the roads. here s my latest snowfall forecast. some of this has already fallen. we ll end up with one to three in atlanta. a lot of sleet today. we avoided a repeat of what we did two weeks ago. but if you re up here in the mountainous areas of virginia and west virginia, up to 12 to 18 inches of snow. and then we get into the high impact