In the alert center. Kristen World Health Organization making an announcement about efforts to fight the zika virus. Christine thanks, kristen. John lets start with charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, here is al conklin. Al a cold start but not as frigid as yesterday when we dipped to 17 degrees. This morning closer to freezing because of the canopy of cloud cover and bit of a breeze. That cloud cover producing light snow for the mountains, debatable how much is reaching the ground but again, power Doppler Radar is picking up a little bit of snow and flurries across the area especially north of town. A Winter Weather advisory runs through tomorrow morning for mountain counties. Keep in mind a lot of the heavier snow will come later this afternoon and on in to tonight. Dry here in charlotte right now, mostly cloudy, that is the metro School Camera in the queen city, no snow falling at the moment. 32 charlotte, 29 monroe, but colder north of town, 28 wadesboro up to alberm
9 in blowing rock and fleet wood. Everyone else is still in the low teens right now. It just gets colder overnight. Many of you are heading for the Single Digits if youre not already there. Plus we have the wind on top of that. Occasionally you could have wind gusts up to about 40 Miles Per Hour making it feel like negative 10 at times. Thats why that windchill advisory gos from now until 10 00 a. M. Sunday. Its not exactly going to get warm after that but still, you will get love the freezing mark or close to it. Heres your overnight low temperature. 6 is an overnight low for ban kimoon. 15 in charlotte. 16 in waynesboro. 15 in chester and 15 also for an overnight low in the shelby area. Heres what we are looking at for the end of your day tomorrow. Most of the day for your sunday, for valentines day, it will be dry. Its going to be clear. But then a winter storm watch kicks into effect from sunday evening until monday evening. Yes, we have another winter storm coming this way. Its go
It is basically all snow up across the mountains. Couple inches yesterday, so your temperatures super cold, just snow up there. But it is snowing. Now you get south of there, lenoir, morganton looks like snow. A lot of this may not be reaching the ground yet, as the air underneath is very, very dry, that is more than likely the case in the metro area. However, we did get a couple reports of snow around lincolnton area, but it would be snow, sleet, freezing rain early this morning but very spotty. Simply because the larger storm system is well up to the north and west of us so it may take time to fill in, it probably will, unless we get a lot of precipitation, probably wont be too bad on the commute this morning. Doesnt take only takes a little ice to create problems. Use caution if you are venturing out this morning. Downtown lincolnton getting snow, very spotty, very light, but snow reported at the airport. 29 in gastonia, 22 in statesville, snow in boone at 17 degrees. For charlotte,
The list at wbtv. Com closings. Remnants of major weather. Al snow, wind and cold. Lets show you what is going on. Low pressure that brought us all the storminess during the midweek period is lifting north in canada. Were on the edge and there is snow coming in east tennessee in the mountains of North Carolina and with that, until 7 00 this morning, we do have a Winter Weather advisory for all the mountain counties, includes the ones john mentioned running on a delay. As far as the School Districts go. Once we get rid of this this morning, it will taper down to flurries, light snow falling now in boone at king street. Rest of us cleared out nicely. Clouds overnight, now clearing out. With that, a decent amount of sunshine today. 37 this morning. Charlotte, statesville, hickory, 27 in boone, 35 in albermarle, 36 rock hill, 35 in shelby. Outside of the mountains, plenty of sunshine on the cool side, talk about a warmup in the minutes. John a school in charlotte breaking are looking for t
Getting more information and bring that to you throughout the morning and online at wbtv. Com. Welcome to wbtv news this morning it is friday, february 12th, im john carter. And School Delays to tell you about. Avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools are all operating on a twohour delay. No other School Closings that we know of. If we get any other delays or closings, well bring them to you. But again, a very cold start to the day again today, here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Wig al it is, john, not as brutal as yesterday. Cloud cover moved in and that ounce times prevents us from getting too, too cold, it is debatable how much snow is reaching the ground. Radar is picking up snow over the mountain and foothills. There may be flurries, but snow a Winter Weather advisory from noon through tomorrow morning. Several inches of snow in the mountain, at best a flurry or sprinkle in the foothillo 25 in boone. 30 hickory and morganton, below freezing ch