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Will be cold on friday and saturday. We showed you these pictures a few minutes ago. Snow in South Carolina that will soon be here. The snow there not finished yet. I am in summerville South Carolina outside of charleston and this is a lot of what we see and the snow is coming down covering roadways. Im outside a Shopping Mall off highway 17 near walmart and its coming up in here. To show you a little bit of what it looks like and how high its coming up. We are checking and its right around an inch and they are expecting to have close to 8 inches by the end of the day. On a highway near charleston icy conditions caused vehicles to overturn. In georgia the governor declared a state of emergency through friday and it snowed in tallahassee, florida first time in 28 years. The storm comes as much of the country remains in the grips of a bitter cold snap. In oklahoma, a water main broken set water 40 feet in the air but because of the freezing temperatures it follows in nearby trees. Breaki
Nbc 10 sent an army of reporters to brave this cold to show you how people across the tristate area are getting ready for this snowstorm. Plus our double threat of meteorologists are timing out the snow in your neighborhood because this really varies depending on where you live just how much snow youre going to get. Of course blizzard warnings now for the delaware beaches and the jersey shore. We have a team of reporters covering this winter storm for you tonight. Lets begin with first alert chief meteorologist tammie souza. This is exactly why we do first alert weather and neighborhood weather us because we want we want to pinpoint whats going to happen in your neighborhood, not somebody elses neighborhood. We do have the first alert for the entire area but that blizzard warning is confined to southern delaware and the jersey shore. Why . Youll get the highest winds. Blizzard warnings are based on the wind blowing the snow around. Youll also get the highest snowfall totals as well. Th
Large in size and very explosive in intensity, so its only going to get stronger as it approaches. The entire area is under the first alert. We do have that blizzard warning for the jersey shore. A rare blizzard warning and also south delaware. Thats where youre going to see the highest winds. Youre also going to see the highest snowfall totals. At this point it looks like thats where the biggest impact will be on all of this. 9 00 tonight through 7 00 tomorrow evening. That is how long well be looking at this first alert and that is how long well be looking at these blizzard conditions around the rest of the area, we are looking at winter storm warnings. So its just still as severe. The winds wont be quite as high in philadelphia. What were looking at is heavy snow. Potentially you could see up to a foot in some places along the jersey shore. In philadelphia, some places could exceed half a foot. Were looking at high winds. Were looking at what could be a very dangerous morning commut
Does not take up the eastern half of the country. Along the shore where we are going toe see the largest totals. Where the storm is currently, its off to the south. South carolina and north carolina, seeing snow. Rain on the radar. At least picking up by the radar out around the outer banks. But it transitions to the winter mix and snow and north carolina. That headed to our area. The clouds in the afternoon the leading edge there. How much snow, as you mentioned, up to two inches around the d. C. Metro. I think its potentially on the higher side. But i certainly see it in the range of the possibility. You go farther east. Even in our area, st. Marys county. Two to four inches possible. Areas that are farther east seeing more than that. Temperature wise is warmer today. We got above freezing. But we are right back down to 32. So all surfaces will hold it as snow. Everything will be below freezing. We will continue to break down the timing specifically and move ahead to the temperatures