Right now wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live and on your side with simple ways to protect your home when it is below freezing. Reporter good morning, christine. These are common sense, they can cost hundreds of thousands of damage to your home if you dont do them. We spoke with experts over at michael son, they want to tell to you let the faucets drip, especially on the outside wall. Also leave cabinets open in your home the warm air cancer can you late and the pipes wont freeze. Garden hoses should not be connected to the faucets. Experts tell us that is the no. 1 device that will freeze and cause an issue. Get out there and disconnect those hoses and lastly, experts say if disaster occurs, you need to know where your emergency shut off valve is, that is important. These tips can help you protect reporting live in uptown share, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine you can track the next round of Winter Weather any time using the smart phones, very handy download the wbtv weather app.
Good coming off independence on 277. Matthews inbound, 13 minutes, 49 miles an hour. Providence road from the arboretum area, 17 minute commute. Concord to center city, 20 minutes at 68milesperhour. That is a check of the morning traffic, christine, over to you. Christine this morning, we know charlottemecklenburg School Superintendent ann clark will remain in that position through june of next year. Amid a heated debate the school board voted to extend her contract and begin a search for the next superintendent immediately. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live in charlotte with more on what was a divisive vote, ashton, explain explain. Reporter good morning, christine. The debate turned heated and personal but the school board voted 63 to keep ann clark in her current position through june of 2017. Before the vote, principals in cms wore red in solidarity, each stood up and called ann clark their hero and praised her for school district. That in hopes to keep clark on the job longer and appare
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
In the alert center. Kristen World Health Organization making an announcement about efforts to fight the zika virus. Christine thanks, kristen. John lets start with charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, here is al conklin. Al a cold start but not as frigid as yesterday when we dipped to 17 degrees. This morning closer to freezing because of the canopy of cloud cover and bit of a breeze. That cloud cover producing light snow for the mountains, debatable how much is reaching the ground but again, power Doppler Radar is picking up a little bit of snow and flurries across the area especially north of town. A Winter Weather advisory runs through tomorrow morning for mountain counties. Keep in mind a lot of the heavier snow will come later this afternoon and on in to tonight. Dry here in charlotte right now, mostly cloudy, that is the metro School Camera in the queen city, no snow falling at the moment. 32 charlotte, 29 monroe, but colder north of town, 28 wadesboro up to alberm
Base with with homeless shelters and see what the demand is during the coldsnap. It is still winter in the queen city. Live in uptown charlotte, Brody Oconnell wbtv on your side. Thank you. Now this arctic air has been sweeping in the mountains and its 15 windchill in places at the top. Its bitter and a windchill advisory is in place. Wbtvs Steve Ohnesorge went up to the high country and they prepare for some of the coldest temperatures they have seen this year. Looking at scenes like this can make one shiver. Try having to get around on foot in it. Its miserable. Windchills barely got to 0. Not fun. In boone students struggled to get to class trying to think warm thoughts. Summer. While there was snow falling it was light just wind blown. Drivers who stuck to the main some side roads were covered but most were passable. It has made for some spectacular scenery from the water wheel in boone to the mill pond falls in banner elk. Pillars and icicles. There is beautiful sites here. But da