Either hold steady or fall just a little bit, especially along i85 and north. Watch out for that. Some of the side roads will freeze, and the main roads will get icy. Reports of accidents already. If you dont have to get outside, dont. A heavy batch of rain through tennessee and alabama will move through georgia, i85 and when that gets here, with cold temperatures around the freezing mark, we could see moderate to heavy freezing rain across the area later this evening. In the pink shaded area, drizzle showing up. Here comes the batch of heavy rain, which will arrive later. A closer look at the live super doppler, Travelers Rest, a patch of light using rain, also in inman and through the foothills of north carolina. Off and on freezing rain across the area. They could see a pretty good glaze, as much as a quarter of an inch on trees and power lines. This purple line right here is the 32 degree mark. This is the wedge. As the moisture comes into this cold air, 28 in greenville and sparta
Greenwood this morning when you walk out the door. You will does that for sure. 11 degrees warmer in greenwood. In asheville, 43 this morning early on your saturday. Greenwood, really quite mild. 48. Woodruff road skycam making some early poll goers this morning. We have another hour. Our temperatures will warm up each hour. We will be in the 50s and getting into the 60s today. There is 46 with partly cloudy skies. The breeze is pick up across the mountains as well. Temperatures will be well above average for all of us. Look at all the clouds. Overall, dry. Some spotty showers later today. Look at the temperatures, getting into the low 60s. Quite nice. The breeze, mainly between five and seven out of the southwest. Upper 50s in asheville. Well above average for you as well. Big changes as we get into the work week. We will talk about those, losing the warmth, and picking up the wet. Gabrielle today is the republican primary in South Carolina, and the first primary in the southeast. Myr
Meteorologist john cessarich. This is wyff news 4 at 5 00 in high definition. Nigel more commitment 2016 coverage now, and more from that oneonone with current gop frontrunner donald trump. Carol wyff news 4s Patrick Hussion spent a lot of time with the real estate mogul this afternoon, and hes here now. Patrick . Patrick before leaving today, trump told us to be on the lookout for a new poll. And sure enough, that cnnorc poll has trump with a 16 point lead over ted cruz. We talked about that and much more today. In his first stop at the popular tommys ham house, donald trump made a quick stop before heading over here, where we talked about his campaign heading into the South Carolina primary on saturday. Look. Its politics. I understand. And ive only been a politician since june 16. Im almost embarrassed to say im a politician. But i guess thats what i am. Patrick has the transformation taken place . Its a big patrick behind him in the South Carolina polls is senator ted cruz, and on
Higher elevations looking at lower elevations, rain and snow mix. Advisories only for the mountains. Winter weather advisory tonight all the way until 7 00 in the morning tomorrow. This is buncombe county, transylvania county, all the way over to the tennessee line. When that expires, we have a winter storm warning that goes from now until tomorrow morning. That is for the counties that border tennessee. That is where the heaviest snow will be, close to tennessee and the west facing slopes and higher elevations. You could see quite a bit of snow. Maybe 26 plus inches of snow, six plus inches mainly, not just for monday and tuesday, possibly through wednesday, it will take quite a while for this system. Impulses will come through, so it will be off and on snow showers in the mountains. Also, the bounds of north georgia could see 13 inches of snow by the middle of the week. Incredible. That is the snow part. We are looking at the cold. This will be some of the coldest air we have seen th
The breeze brings in cooler temperatures. We need to get unstable for Severe Weather. Late tonight and early tomorrow morning, we will break down the wedge. Besides the potential for severe thunderstorms, we could also have the potential for flash flooding. Most of us have seen a couple inches of rain. The ground is saturated. Expecting 14 plus inches of more rain as we go through the next 2436 hours. The Severe Weather threat runs spartanburg, greenville, anderson, starriva, although a to the midlands. Potential risk for Severe Weather across the area. More about that Severe Weather later on. Now back to you. Be in columbia. She is scheduled to be there in less than an hour. Gabrielle thats where we find wyff news 4s patrick hussion. He is kicking off 26 commitment 2016 coverage. Hillary in columbia before heading to the townhall meeting. She will be at this forum on this stage with five mothers whose children were victims of gun violence, or who died in police custody. This begins at