Area, this is a weather advisory. This is where travel is going to be tricky. We could see some snowfall accumulations and icing. Then we head down south. A freezing rain advisory in the hot pink area. All these advisories are in effect through tomorrow night. We see on our radar right now most of the snow is just in our extreme northern mountain locations around spruce pine, northern yancey and mitchell counties right now. However, as we put the future radar in to motion, well lets see, we see it eventually beginning to fill in from the west as well. So as we go through the overnight, were going to see more of those snow showers begin to fly. Meanwhile the current temperatures a big range. Burnsville 18. Asheville a cold 22. Warmer conditions out west. Bryson city 32. Your evening planner is going to be a cold one with those snow showers ramping up. Flurries at nine. A knew snow showers at 11 oclock. We are going to see and mainly cloudy. Moisture is going to kick in a little bit late
Winter weather advisories, though, until 7 oclock tuesday for the counties in purple. Includes buncombe, avery, macon, clay, cherokee. This is where a lot of significant snow is going to accumulate. Winter storm warnings until 7 oclock in the morning. Periods of snow, gusty in asheville. Ill show you what to expect overnight and when the snow accumulates here in the city. Stick around. Darcel with the snow arriving from the west, it didnt take long for some of our western mountains to turn white. Tammy news 13s meteorologist karen wynne is live in waynesville. Karen, it didnt take much to get people excited. Karen no, tammy, it really didnt. Right now in waynesville it is dry. Long. One family actually went snowboarding before their location was completely covered. Gearing up for a very long night. Around midmorning we met christine walking through the horizontal snow flakes. She was not amused. Its a mess and its devastating. I dont know, i like spring better. Karen as the snow came d
Its an important part to have strong manufacturing. We have to have industry to complement that. To bring young people and to bring talented engineers and technical people through the area. Kim now the plant will be built in mills river which is near the airport. It the make light weight aluminum car parts that are already replacing heavier parts on cars from the ford f150 trucks to european cars like volvo. The goal is to get better efficiency on cars. The plan is to break ground on the plant in the spring. This is a new venture for both companies. Reporting live, kimberly king, news 13. Darcel the rain is moving in. Larry yeah, were expecting showers throughout the night. Lets check in with meteorologist karen wynne. Definitely a wet night ahead. We can see widespread rain around the region. Even a few thunderstorms, including one in swain county right now moving to the rest, towards blue ridge parkway. This is fizzling out. But the area of yellow, definitely some heavier rain. We pu
Bursts of moderate snow coming down about an hour ago. We drop three degrees. This temperature will easily get down to freezing. Already close to freezing in the higher elevations. Winter advisories from 7 oclock until tuesday. Buncombe, avery, macon, clay, and cherokee county. All these counties are under wintnt storm warnings. Periods of some snow. Light accumulations. Watch out for slick roads. Ill tell you more about the changes that lie ahead and how the snow adds up. Stick around. Larry we have a team of reporters tracking some snow thats already fallen and whats still to come. Darcel news 13s karen wynne is in haywood county, and Kimberly King in yancey. What are crews doing to gear up for more snow tonight . Karen darcel, theyre working long hours. Theyre going to be out all night long to keep the roads safe. Little bit of snow to give one florida family a thrill. It was the first time the kids have ever seen snow. So they snowboarded on soco mountain even though it was not com
Elevations above 3500 feet. Larry snow covered secondary roads. Darcel its led to buncombe county schools updating the calendar. Karen wynne joins us. Larry karen, the last day of school has been pushed back, right . Karen larry, it has. Its been pushed back to june 8th. School leaders say it was a tough call to make this morning because originally it looked good. But after transportation workers found widespread black ice, they decided to close school for the day sending out a second notification an hour later and frustrating a few parents. You know, its just that its closed or its not closed. Kept it one way or another. I went back it sleep and got woke up again by, well, schools out. Karen but bishop says she did the right thing by cancelling today. The updated calendar also a parents survey. For more information on that survey and the updated calendar, log on to wlos. Com. Live in buncombe county, im karen wynne, news 13. Darcel North Carolinas new Drug Testing Program for welfare