Your weekend in a few minutes. News 13 Lauren Brigman joins us live. Reporter sams gap, those are the areas that remain snow covered. I want to show you Chandler Creek road in marsh hill. We are in four wheel drive. This road is slick. We are seeing the snow flurries coming down. I want to show you video we have near the sams gap area, highway 23. That is still snow covered in places. We did see dot crews out treating the roads. They say slick spots had been the primary routes, future i26, highway 213. Those are the main roads in madison county. They are also concentrating on highway 23. As you make your way back out live, you can see still snow covered in places. That is why schools are out here today. Live in marshhill, Lauren Brigman, news 13. I checked in with dispatchers in mitchell, swan, and haywood counties, back roads still might be slick. Always a good idea to take it slow heading out in these Northern Counties on your morning drive. Travel times, future i26 tennessee border
Advisories for yancey, mitchell. Elsewhere, not quite that cold but still very, very uncomfortable if youre out for too long. We are down to 20 right now in asheville. Burnsville 18. Newland 10 degrees. 17 in morganton. You add the wind chill factor in that. Feeling like 10 right now in asheville. 4 below in boone. Thats where its dangerous. 24 in forest city. We are looking at a very cold overnight and cold valentines day morning as well. Starting out at 15 degrees at 8 oclock. Cloudy and 22 at 10 00 a. M. 26 at noon. Layer up if youre going to be out in the morning. Upstate cold at 22 degrees at 8 oclock. 28 at 10 00. 33 degrees at noon. We have a winter storm watch kicking in tomorrow evening through monday for all of us in the mountains and the Northern Tier of the upstate and coming up, ill tell you much more about the mix of snow and ice. Coming up our, frank. Frank drivers across the mountains already had some trouble getting out the door this morning. Fresh snow made for slick
But a devastating loss for the panthers. Reporter good evening to you. It was a devastating loss for the panthers. Their magical season comes to an end. They fall 2410 to the broncos. But what a season it was for carolina. The big story of the game tonight was the denver defense. They set a superbowl record with 7 sacks against the panthers. They forced four turn overs, miller, the broncos defensive player was named the games mvp. He was all over the ball. Seemingly almost every offensive possession for carolina. Newton couldnt get beginning. But tonight the denver defense stepped up when they needed it most. Cam newton had no answer. First game all season newton was not responsible for an offensive touch down for the panthers. They end with a record of 1726789 they are a young team. Theyll have a lot of good players come back. A lot of good things to look forward to if youre a panthers fan. Losing in the superbowl to manning and the broncos is a difficult pill to swallow to end your s
Of snow thats swain, central mitchell in to ery. The white is a thin area where i think half an inch to the tops an inch. Area around marshall, barnardsville. Weaverville. Asheville, a dusting to half an inch is really what im going for. 20s area wide. Its cold and its dropping. 26 by morning. I know, that doesnt mean were going to fall much more because our temperatures may warm as our clouds come in to the morning. Watch out for flakes flying in the morning. We have a second more potent storm to talk about. That comes in next week. Ill show you all the details coming up. Larry mosquitoes are months away but the growing over the zika virus have some wondering darcel news 13s justin about the situation . Justin well they dont anticipate the spread of the zika virus across North Carolina as its primarily contracted in central and south america. In a few short months, blood sucking insects will descend upon North Carolina. But in central and south america, theyre already making their pre
For tonight . Jason more snow. Buncombe county getting light snow fall. Leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network were up at Beach Mountain parkway. 5,000 feet elevation. And this is avery county. 8 degrees and its blowing that snow. Several inches on the ground. Beach mountain itself six inches of snow. Heres our leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network down at pari in rosmond. What a difference here. You can see those low clouds hanging. No accumulation in many places south of i40. Now we go in to graham county, santilla. I40 right through pines creek. We have lighter snows in to woodlawn, areas around woodland gorge. 6 and a half in marshall outside of spruce pine. Two inches in toccoa. All of these purple counties, again, we have wind advisories for more accumulations of snow and icy roads. Ill show you how much to expect here and how cold well get. See you again in a few minutes. Tammy our Live Team Coverage continues at Yancey County where northern mountains picked up sn