fan rs starting to head to dallas for this sunday s super bowl. if they can get there, by the way. it s been tough for those used to green bay and pittsburgh. the weather will feel a lot like home. wednesday, the coldest day in dallas in 20 years. more snow is expected between now and game time. let s get a preview of the big day with darren rovell. in his snow outfit, too. apparently, we re covering the collapse of the metrodome in minneapolis. are you in dallas? i m not sure. ipg i m in green bay, chuck. this is crazy. on tuesday, they had a sheet of ice come in. apparently, they have never heard of salt before. then came the snow on wednesday. the snow last night into the morning now we have ice pellets, i believe that s the way you describe it. it s really started to crimp the business around here.
of places, but you know about st. louis and it s all about the ice. reporter: absolutely really is. probably the best way to show you the ice is to, well, show you the ice. let s take a look at this. here s one of the many branches that we have in the area, one of the many trees. this thing is just coated top to bottom with tons of ice. the amazing thing is how heavy this tends to be. a tree that stands 40 feet can have up to four tons of ice on it. when you have the winds pick up, which is exactly what we anticipate later today and into the evening hours, a lot of these trees are going to bend, twist and break. when there s broken branches, they ll get on the roadways, have power outages and compound problems. some of the icing has been showing up on everything. in fact every single blade of grass here is encased in the ice. it s really, really weird. and this white stuff is not even snow, it s ice pellets that are coming in. so it s frozen rain first, now it s the ice pellets and n
it mildly today. it is just awful out there. what is the latest? reporter: well, here in st. louis, tamron, it s not so much snow as it is sleet. you go about 20 miles west of here, it s been snowing at a clip of two inches an hour. but here it s sleet. what s on the ground here, ice pellets. this is sleet. so the that snow is likely to come, it s this way, and the fear is that when it does, all of that snow on top of ice that s accumulated on trees and power lines, couple that with winds tomorrow forecast to be up to 40 miles an hour, they re worried about power lines coming down, tree limbs coming down, massive power outages. the local utility has hundreds of crews standing by to deal with it, if that happens. power outages an issue in lafayette, indiana, that s where my weather channel colleague janelle klein is right now. reporter: john, similar conditions here, as you
savannah, good morning. so here in hartford, already one foot of snow on the ground, 12 inches. and in some parts of this state, already 18 inches on the ground. pretty good barometer, and it s still coming down, as you can see, sideways in some cases, because of the wind. i ve been picking ice pellets off my face, which i know you guys love. this is the main road at the state capitol here in hartford. you know they re plowing these roads first, and look, fully covered. police cars are getting stuck. we saw a plow stuck on a road here just a couple of minutes ago. that goes to show you how bad it is. they literally can t keep up with the amount of snowfall and the rate of snowfall it s coming down, 2 to 4 inches an hour. i went to bed, overnight here in hartford, just before midnight, not a flake, nothing. woke up around 5:00 a.m., already 8 or 9 or 10 inches on the ground in some places. that s how fast it was coming down overnight. expected to last for a little while longer. most sch
the i believe we had, was it 24 days under 32 degrees just last year, so, you know, this is only we just finished the third day and coming up on day number four and then it s supposed to ease up on us a bit. so in comparison, we re feeling kind of you know, i m much more confident in this year than i was in last. that s some good news. the long-term impact hopefully not too bad for you guys. i agree. hope not. okay. great. that s a little bit of good news coming out of the frozen sunshine state this morning. gary park, thanks for time the time and is joining us this morning. how cold tonight, jackie? probably down in the middle 20s again. he s just outside the tampa/st. pete area. they put water from the punishablers and try to protect it and if the wind is too strong, it can make ice pellets that hit it, as well. we ll be watching it.