Precipitation, snow and ice gives the greatest danger in charlotte with the weather maker. A layer of snow, a coating of freezing rain on top of that snow. This all starts overnight sunday night into monday and all of us will start out with that snow. But the deal is warmer air working its way just above us, will melt a little bit of that, then refreezes on the ground on monday, by 6 00 or so. Changes it into a freezing rain. That will be possible across rock hill all the way up into davidson. When you get to upper Iredell County including statesville to taylorsville, morganton, that is where well see pretty much a steady snowfall. The top one looks to be ice, just because the snowfall may not have a lot of time to accumulate our futurecast sets the stage overnight tonight as the temperatures drop down to low teens and lower 20s. The cold will stay with us all the way through sunday as that weathermaker gets close. Its after that snowfall that is going to be the even bigger danger, ill
Other issue that is were following include 77 northbound near amity hill we had an accident, now in the median. Were on the scene of this accident as well gathering more information northbound at 36 miles per hour, so still a little slow. So 21 heading up through troutman up through statesville should be used. 85 southbound we have the inside left lane blocked with an accident involving a tractor trailer just south of highway 152 from china grove. Very minimal impact expected with this accident at this time. Lots of room still to move around. And then in east shaferlt we have this. This is a roadway thats blocked because of standing water. This happening at hawthorne lane just north of central avenue. In the meantime youll have to avoid this intersection just north of it, use the plaza as john. We have some breaking news right now. All lanes are 77 just opened back up after freezing rain caused several crashes in both yeah. Trapping hundreds of drivers for at least five hours overnight
If you look at the car, thats a sheet of ice up here in troutman. Thats the situation on the roads, the longer the time they have to ice over, the more of a danger certainly. Up on i77, we found wrecks all over the place between statesville and troutman. Its going to take a while for this to warm up and relieve the situation here. John ahrens, channel 9 Eyewitness News. All right thank you. Breaking news on i485 in huntersville. All outer loop lanes near i77 are closed after an eight vehicle crash. These are the first live pictures. Medic says the area is icy. Some people still going fast. Huntersville firefighters on the scene. One person was injured. We dont know how badly. In the last 20 minutes, crews reopened one lane of i40 westbound in Catawba County to let traffic through here. But then closed all lanes after two tractor trailers jackknifed here. One of the trucks went across the roadway. We brought you updates for the last hour tonight. It could be another hour before the lane
On when that arrives coming up. Today nc d. O. T. Crews will be deciding how to treat the roads for mondays Winter Weather. They say treating roads for freezing rain is different than for snow. Trucks will start tackling highways and interstates. More crews are on call if we get more than we anticipate. We have dozens of pieces of equipment just within Mecklenburg County alone. We also have potential for 90 contractors that can we can bring on site. Nc d. O. T. Crews say crews have already used 24 million worth of materials on storm preps this year. That is already more than half the states budget for the entire year. And you can always stay informed on the weather in your neighborhood by using the wsoc tv weather app. You can use the interactive radar and get Severe Weather alerts. Learned ash county schools will not have a half day today. It was supposed to make up for days missed during the recent Winter Weather. Several School Districts including cms are going to use monday, presid
For the morning drive. Rain later monday. At least for tomorrow morning the showers kept across the mountains. I want to draw your attention to what will be going on across greensboro and triad. Northeast winds taking over, clouds thickening. Thats the carolina wedge, cooler air moving through that gets stuck over charlotte. When you have the cooler air masses battling each other with warmer air to the south, thats the recipe for strong thunderstorms. Thanks, john. Well be monitoring conditions overnight and whether it will impact your morning drive tomorrow. You can get traffic and weather every 10 minutes starting at 4 30 on Eyewitness News daybreak. Developing tonight, channel 9 was the only news outlet to get a copy of an email of the governor to a Charlotte Council we reported this as breaking news at 6 00. Since then weve been digging into both sides ahead of that crucial vote tomorrow. Here and speak for or against that ordinance even more are expected to rally outside of the go