Union, heaviest is along u. S. 52 around wadesboro toward rockingham, hamlet and 220 out of the viewing area. Concerned about residual cold air holding on, close to freezing around hickory, newton, taylorsville, wilkesboro, may be pockets of ice up there, at least for a couple more hours before all this pulls out. You can see the loop over the last few hours, indicate whats i was saying the heaviest is pushing east and drier air will come in once the sun comes up at 7 30 or so this morning. Still have rain falling in charlotte, lighter than what it was an hour or so ago, all total an inch of rain. 38 in charlotte, notice as close as monroe youre 50, so close to freezing north and west, everyone winds up warmer. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Chris first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of North Charlotte. If you are heading out the door early on this tuesday morning, out there, i77 southbound at West Boulevard, roads are
Delays with that accident scene. Then we hop across center city to west trade at graham, accident in the roadway there, have not seen any significant delays along graham or west trade street but keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that the ciaa basketball tournament starts today, women playing first at 10 00 a. M. , youll find heavier traffic in and around center city. This is the live look, i77, arrowood, you can certainly see the roads are wet, wipers on, lights on. That is traffic, christine, over to you. Christine get back to breaking news if youre just joining us out of northwest charlotte, a swat situation has ended with the arrest of one man. It happened overnight on Pointer Ridge drive in the catawba plantation subdivision. Ashton pellom has been on the scene talking to investigators, to neighbors and ashton you learned in the last few minutes more about the man arrested. Reporter thats exactly right, christine. Within the past five minutes we the man who was arrested here at
Inbound, youll find delays there. As we hop out to the west just a bit, this is west trade street at graham, an accident scene there, not seeing any significant delays along graham, but emergency crews may be on the scene. The john belk, brookshire both looking good in terms of traffic flow. The live look at independence expressway heading inbound toward 277, no problems there this morning and your drive times, up from rock hill, 22 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute and lake norman southbound at 16 minutes and 64milesperhour. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John 5 32, looking ahead for the 11th Consecutive Year the ciaa tournament is back in uptown charlotte, expected to bring in about 150,000 fans. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is live in uptown charlotte with more so expect this year . Reporter john, ciaa commissioner Jackie Mcwilliams has been planning all year long to make sure this year is the best the tournament
Right now in monroe. We will be in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range most of the day. 41 charlotte, 29 much colder in boone, talk about consistency, hickory, gastonia, salisbury, monroe, rock hill at 41. Well go from the low 40s to the mid 50s this afternoon. Wind gusts with us throughout the day under partly sunny skies, heading to the ciaa games tonight out at the arena, tipoff temperature, 39 degrees, keep in mind funneling effect of the wind in town, through the tall towers, will likely feel colder with gusty winds around this evening. Weekend forecast, temperatures going up, i think youll like it, ill have details in a few minutes. Right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Starting out with an accident up in huntersville, this is mccoy at kinsey avenue, just down to the south of gilead road, keep that in mind if that is part of your morning travel plan. Live at independence expressway, volume
And the sun is down and a notable difference. The breeze picked up and its extremely cold. Bundle up and do not forget to bring the pets in before you go to bed. Brody oconnell wbtv on your side. Thank you. And a live picture of the college in banner elk. Look at the snow. Bitter cold temperatures are expected in the carolinas tonight and the dangerous conditions in the mountains. Windchills today well below 0. Steve ohnesorge in avery county where officials are warning people to be careful. When the clouds a a moving this fast and twisters of snow zip across the fields locals say its a bit much. Cold. In the banner elk area several inches of snow have fallen since monday and more in the next few days. But its perfect weather to sell coats to tourists. Its cold and they need it. Like this group from florida. For as cold as it is. We had to redo our store. Stores did not sell much in november and december still trying to play catch up. This is the week to do it. The temperatures this we