Union, heaviest is along u. S. 52 around wadesboro toward rockingham, hamlet and 220 out of the viewing area. Concerned about residual cold air holding on, close to freezing around hickory, newton, taylorsville, wilkesboro, may be pockets of ice up there, at least for a couple more hours before all this pulls out. You can see the loop over the last few hours, indicate whats i was saying the heaviest is pushing east and drier air will come in once the sun comes up at 7 30 or so this morning. Still have rain falling in charlotte, lighter than what it was an hour or so ago, all total an inch of rain. 38 in charlotte, notice as close as monroe youre 50, so close to freezing north and west, everyone winds up warmer. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Chris first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of North Charlotte. If you are heading out the door early on this tuesday morning, out there, i77 southbound at West Boulevard, roads are
3 and we should 3 mention Graham County schools will start on a two hour delay tomorrow morning. We will of course have updates on School Closures and delays at fox carolina dot com. 3 and it looks like weather is to blame for a problem at gsp tonight. Airport Officials Say a delta plane leaving the gate to prepare for take off was asked to wait. Because of gusty conditions. As it taxied to a holding area. The plane struck a light pole. There were 140 passengers on board. But no one was hurt. The flight was able to take off and successfully landed in atlanta just after 8 tonight. 3 tonight trees and power lines are down across the area. From spartanburg. Where a large tree fell. To Greenville County where crews were out working to repair these lines earlier today. Its been a mess for many people. Right now, Blue Ridge Electric is reporting that Anderson County more than 600homes without power. Duke energy is reporting more than 17hundred people are without electricity in spartanburg. A
Heres a look from wofford. Snow on the ground in spartanburg. Freezing. Were continuing to see cold eastnortheast. Heres the view from our anderson skycam. Weve got rain right now, 35 degrees. Too warm for that wintry precipitation there. Getting some early snow totals in here. Weve got some pretty hefty totals, especially in the mountains. Asheville airport, three inches. I can tell you, as we look at live super doppler 4 h. D. , as we looooat whats going on, we have snow n mountains. Some ice showing up across the upstate from the northern part of the upstate, from i85 northbound. Here is i85. You need to Pay Attention to that, because anywhere north of there seeing the worst of the storm. We a bubble of uncertainty from greenwood to anderson. I dont want to you let your guard down there, because this rain freezing line is going to waffle back and forth. This low level jet here sending in a ton of moisture from the south, at the same time, cold air is diving in. They meet right over
Crash at around daybreak. 26 in greenville and spartanburg, 23 the low in asheville. With temperatures below freezing for lease 12 hours, that will freeze everything of the roadways back over. Finally, temperatures warm up headed into the noon hour tomorrow. Many areas in the 50s, even in the mountains. I have a heat wave on the way, not really, but close. I will have that coming up. Mike tonight, power crews are much closer to having all power restored. At the worst of the storm, thousands were without power. Tonight, duke energy is reporting 88 outages, most of them in greenville county. Right now, Blue Ridge Electric and Laurens Electric says all power has been restored. Tonight, as chris said school , districts across the upstate are keeping an eye on the roads, and making decisions about classes tomorrow. Greenville, pickens, and all Spartanburg County districts except spartanburg district four district have been watching and waiting to see what kind of melting happens, what the r
They get to the super bowl. The most complete name they have played all season, seven turnovers in the game against cars palmer, and cam newton has the panthers in the super bowl for the First Time Since 2003, when the panthers lost. We have confetti flying as a burst of wind comes down. Ricardo lecompte was on the field after the game and caught up philly around. Philly brown. Ricardo what is the emotion you are feeling right now, seeing the celebration . Excited. We are all excited, but hungary. We have one more game. We are not worried but anybody else says about what anybody else says. Ricardo you were able to jump off to another fast start. We play as a team. We execute. We do what we do well, so a lolo of people can say what they want to say about the offense, but when it comes down to it, everybody plays. Congratulations, philly. The first time this franchise will play in a super bowl in 12 seasons. In charlotte, ricardo lecompte, wyff news 4. Brad thanks, ricardo. Philly brown,