Currently under this, graham, swain, northern jackson, haywood, madison, mitchell counties. It is throughout the entire day overnight and through tuesday morning. Those locations that will see the most snow, not as much snow down into the valley. The southern mountains down into the foothills not going to see much of anything. Buncombe is is under this advisory until this evening. The winter storm watch kicks in for the tennessee border counties. Continued snowfall in those zones through even wednesday. Temperatures this morning were cool at 26. This afternoon, warming above the freezing mark in asheville at 40 degrees. Still in the 30s in burnsville and towards boone. 49 into the upstate stateupstate. 51 into greenwood. This is the system right here, some of the snow and that mix. As the cold front moves through, the northwest flow will enhance snow showers throughout the day. And even overnight in some locations. Not seeing too much activity but watch as we go through the second half
The efforts to find scott turner involve more than 50 people. People on the ground and air as well. Search crews set up a command post in the upstate. We have 55 folks that are actually deployed. Reporter oconnee county fire chief says that number includes friends and family of scott turner. He disappeared from kanton monday. He seemed to be okay at work monday. Reporter long time friend robert hill used to work with turner at the evergreen paper plant. He says something must have changed. After monday, nobody heard anything. His phone was turned off after he left work. And i think the last thing he got on his phone was in canton. Reporter family found his pickup truck near the toretugga river. Outdoorsman and came here to fish and hunt. Folks are still hiking the foothills so we dont know if that was his or someones passing through. Certainly his health comes in to consideration when its below freezing. He hunts a lot so he knows how to make it. Reporter his good friend says this scen
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
Continue. Icy roads especially closer to elevations. 21 at 11. Well have snow in our forecast, too. Not nearly as much, though. Ill show you how much to expect. We go down the road and how windy its going to get. Stick around. Tammy its providing a boost for local businesses. Darcel rex hodge is live. Rex, tell us about the pros and cons. Rex well you know the roads can still be tricky out here. But the dot doing a good job on the main roads. Like the Smoky Mountain expressway. Some businesses up here and towns like maggie valley, they revenue. Another snow day for kids to enjoy. Snow on the slopes of cataloochee means attracting skiers and snow boarders. I saw it was snowing up here and said lets go take a day trip. Going to make a profit by the end of the season . Well be all right. Anytime we get snow it energizes the guest. Its great to see the scenery out there. If cataloochee doesnt have them, we dont have them. We were absolutely devastated during the school break, during christ