Down to the valley, seeing flurries this morning, but this winter storm warning is still out for another hour for the counties on your screen shaded in pink. Buncombe county and surrounding counties, this Winter Weather advisory is out until wednesday morning. Coming up in my full forecast, we will talk more about how much more snow is expected to fall, when it will stop, and the incredibly cold conditions that will last for quite a while. Back over to you. Jay Haywood County is one area that saw snow stick overnight and again this morning. Holly Lauren Brigman is live near waynesville middle school, what are dispatchers out there telling you . Lauren i just checked in with them, holly, less than five minutes ago. No accidents to report right now. But, of course, because the schools are ease klod a lot closed a lot of people are staying home, unless you have to get out to go to work. But they remind people to use caution because we are seeing you can see4 accident on i40 eastbound near
I want to show you how much snow has accumulated. You can see the picnic table. Here. Portions of Maggie Valley seeing three and four inches. That goes to show how a difference in elevation can mean a difference when it comes to snowfall. Earlier we saw the snow begin to fall in Maggie Valley before the sun even came up. The only people we saw on the roads were the dot crews focusing on roads like soco road as the morning went on, we saw more people venturing out. We caught up with a family heading back out to alabama after being here for a couple of days to ski at catlucci. The girls told me this snowfall, even though it is a few inches is a beautiful sight because they never experienced anything like this. They had to catch it on camera it never snows. Nice to see it and have the cold and it is beautiful up here. Of course, we traveled up to the top of soco road, one of the higher eleletions in Maggie Valley. Thats one of the first places that sees snowfall. Dot crews heavily treatin
Farther south out of the woods, too, rain all over the upstate. Snow still falling north of jackson county. The radar not picking up all of the snow flakes. Most of it is concentrated over swain. Rain again in the southern valleys. Black mountains getting snow popping up. Other than that, it should be pretty quiet elsewhere tonight. Temperatures right around freezing by day break in any cases if not below. Black ice issues in the morning. Back in to sunshine. I think little, very little if any accumulation in asheville. Ill talk about bigger changes, which includes a nice warm up. Stick around to see when and how long. Darcel new tonight, a house fire in east asheville kept the fire started in the attic just before 6 oclock tonight on beverly road. Firefighters saw flames coming from both sends of the attic. The homeowners and their pets were able to get out safely. When fire gets in an attic, a lot of times it can spread across the attic. Thankfully this one went pretty well as far as
For tonight . Jason more snow. Buncombe county getting light snow fall. Leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network were up at Beach Mountain parkway. 5,000 feet elevation. And this is avery county. 8 degrees and its blowing that snow. Several inches on the ground. Beach mountain itself six inches of snow. Heres our leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network down at pari in rosmond. What a difference here. You can see those low clouds hanging. No accumulation in many places south of i40. Now we go in to graham county, santilla. I40 right through pines creek. We have lighter snows in to woodlawn, areas around woodland gorge. 6 and a half in marshall outside of spruce pine. Two inches in toccoa. All of these purple counties, again, we have wind advisories for more accumulations of snow and icy roads. Ill show you how much to expect here and how cold well get. See you again in a few minutes. Tammy our Live Team Coverage continues at Yancey County where northern mountains picked up sn
Continue until then. Wind speeds alone, gusting over 40 miles an hour. Sustained winds 20 plus miles an hour. Midnight, these will expire with gusts at 45. Youll see these bands of snow shower activity affecting your morning commute especially i40 west and i26 north. Ill see you in a few minutes. Well talk about the rest of the impacts. Darcel first round of this latest round of winter weather. Larry Aaron Adelson continues from our mobile track in madison county. How are the roads right now where you are at, aaron . Aaron the roads are wet but nothing is accumulating. Outside of mars hill, just a couple of flurries. Not too many cars out driving snow started falling around 8 15 tonight. Snow started coming down pretty hard at times. Like, i dont want anymore cold at all. I want spring like tomorrow. Dont you . Dont you live here . Youre over it, too, right . I like the snow and everything but i dont like driving in it. Aaron thats a feeling many of us can relate to. Driving down 26 ea