It is a slow process. This cold air does not want to leave. It is so heavy and dense that it stays close to the ground and backs up against the mountains. We are warming up, 32 in hendersonville, 32 in asheville, rain mixed with freezing rain. Gradually getting better. Starting to bring in warmth with the moisture from the west, from all different directions. We will wipe out all this pink shaded area. 30 in greenville and spartanburg, 32 in laurens, 32 in greenwood, here is the heaviest rain. Wow. Look at this pocket of extremely heavy rainfall. It will move through gainesville. Lake lanier, you have had freezing rain for the last couple hours. Moderate to heavy along with a couple claps of thunder. Look at these lightning strikes. That is actually what is happening, this wedge is moving moisture coming in from the southwest. It back like a mini it acts it forces the air to lift, forms thunderstorms and we ended up with lightning strikes. Unbelievable. Sometimes you hear about thuhuer
Starting to see flurries, the Higher Elevations of North Carolina. That is the winter storm warning area. A winter storm watch includes asheville, greenville, spartanburg, oconee county, pickens county. It will be the mountains of South Carolina that may see a little more snow. The upstate will see sleet, cold rain, and maybe some freezing rain in spots. We will be watching that starting late tonight. Temperature of 24 in greenville while it is 13 in boone, 21 in hendersonville. Probably dropped a couple of degrees this morning before it starts to climb. It will climb much. 30 in the mountains today. 36 or so in the upstate. It will feel colder with those 610 plus mileperhour winds. Just as it does this morning. Feels like 15 in greenville and laurens. 10 in hendersonville. A cold, breezy day today. Here is our future plus. The computer model, lets run it and we will give you an idea of when we start twoseamer wintry weather. More action this afternoon and this evening in the mountains
Between it, this is the wedge of cold air that runs all the way back into northeastern georgia. When the rain is into our area, it will move into temperatures in the upper 20s around greenville, spartanburg, and anderson. That could cause big problems for us or this evening. Chris will talk about that. Chris when did the temperatures warm above freezing . Do they warm above freezing before the heavy stuff moves in . We think it will be half and half. Some of the moisture will arrive over the cold air that will fall as freezing rain. Then, we will warm up. We were looking at the models, and area right in here will warm up above freezing by 10 00. A lot of moisture will move in between now and then. Around 11 00, an area like this northbound warms up above freezing. We will watch this closely. Our eye on the area is through our skycam network. Wonderland. A coat of ice on our skycam. The roof on the golf course, completely covered in ice. Go towards downtown greenville, we have a light m
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