This afternoon. The right now the big picture is showing cloudy skies some is sleet and freezing rain still falling across portions of the triangle, some that have sleet falling in the northeastern portions of wake county also out towards Chatham County but were going to start our little radar tour right around chapel hill, Durham County seeing some of that sleet and freezing rain near wake forest as well. If youre seeing the roads and theyre up towards franklin county, towards roanoke rapids, youre all still seeing the sleet and freezing rain as well. So current temperatures 28 in raleigh, 28 in louisburg, 26 right now in roxboro and durham. We need to get the temperatures above freezing and its going to take the next few hours to do so. So heres what im thinking 30 degrees at noon, freezing well be close to the freezing mark dont get above it until about 6 p. M. This evening. So its going to take a few more hours. Temperature at 6 right around 33. Ill have more on when the rain moves
45 at 8 a. M. This morning, 53 at noon. And then 56 our high which is pretty close to our normal of 57 for this time of year. We drop back to 51 by 6 00 this evening. More on your forecast and a sneak peek at the weekend ahead in just a little bit. Traffic, this is i85 and 15, 501. Many of you still at home this morning as youre getting up and get going. Note that theres no delays or accidents in this direction. So lets go ahead and look at your live drive conditions. Here were looking at i40 east and westbound south of downtown. So well check in first with westbound and youre moving at about 60 Miles Per Hour this morning. Another check in about 10 minutes. Thanks a lot. Today representatives from the National Weather service will be in our area trying to figure out if tornados hit part of the region. Behind me. It brought heavy rain, winds and possible be tornados, and one of the hardest hit areas was in oxford in Granville County. There . Devastation. We are waiting for the National
Check on traffic. And this is i40 and lake wheeler road. You can see actually plenty of cars out there for this early hour. The good news to report everyone moving at or above the posted speed limits and to show you that im looking at i40 south of downtown and were looking at i40 westbound at about 62 Miles Per Hour, eastbound right around 70 Miles Per Hour. Keep in mind youre traveling through a work zone there so watch your speed. More in about ten minutes. Mike. Continuing Team Coverage this morning as we are waking up to those bitterly cold temperatures alyssa just talked about. It is below freezing in many places in central North Carolina. Emma wright is checking out the roads where they were prepared for potentially icy conditions out there. Good morning. Were driving around clayton this morning. It looks like theyre trying to get ahead of themselves out here. Were it looks like theyve been out here pretreating the roads. Were not seeing any icy or slick spots just yet. Theyre tr
Some peeks of sunshine likely by lunchtime with our temperature Holding Steady at 52 degrees, 51 with partly cloudy skies by 3 00 and still dry with temperatures falling to 49 degrees by 6. The dryer and warmer weather moving in. Ill have your complete forecast coming up. Right now you can keep up with all the weather and any changing conditions on the go with the wncn news and weather app. Here you can kind forecasts, alert, live radar, just download it. Its absolutely free for your device. Severe weather did cause problems during the morning commute. Multiple accidents were reported on area roads. Wncns emma wright has been checking out all the damage from this morning and joins us now live in the mobile news tracker. How things looking right now . What a difference a couple of hours makes. Were on 440 right now and things looking pretty good. Were going to show you what this looked like a few hours ago. This is is video from 7 00 this morning, Raleigh Police say they responded to 33
Throughout the day. The timeframe for the Severe Threat from 10 00 am until 6 00 pm. We are in cooler temperatures in Central North Carolina and the blue. 46 raleigh, 45 durham the warmer air moving in and this will fuel storm throughout the taper 51 fayetteville, 33 clayton 49 goldsboro. 40 8 00 am, rain likely for morning commute, watch for quarter ponding and dense fog. Storms possible at lunchtime, damaging wind gust this afternoon. Cannot rule out isolated tornadoes. High of 70. Drop into the mid60s by 6 00 pm and the rain will move east by this point in time. More on the storm threat coming lets check in with traffic. You can clearly see how dense the fog is that this is i504. Allow for extra time. Remember low beams. I want to show you wrote in text where you are seeing yellow that is where we are doing with foggy conditions. Across wake county, germ county and grandville, vance, Franklin County where we see green siler city, sanford urc wet roads and water ponding on the roadwa