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Snow is covering the ground in these places. Down. 26 degrees in yancey county. You come down into Cold Springs Ranch in haywood county, its 40,000 feet elevation toward the tennessee border. Its not terribly deep snow cover, but theres on the snow ground, the Road Conditions are continue to drop. Take a look at the darkest blue. It indicates some of the heavier snow bands. Highway 19 impacted. Scams gap, highway 25 and of course i26 north. In Mcdowell County and towards spruce pine we have some decent snow showers taking shape. Until 7 00 tomorrow morning Winter Weather advisories are out for all of the counties. It doesnt mean the snow will its going to reduce visibility so watch out as you go closer to the tennessee border. Look for the snow showers to wane much coming up in just a bit. Theres also Severe Weather hitting other places around the country. Heart break today in the town of waverly, virginia. Four people were killed there, including a toddler when a tornado tossed a mobi
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
Most of the primary roads are covered with salt, they are in good shape but the secondary roads and the Higher Elevations are turning white now. We will have crews hitting those once daylight comes, the day shift working. But for right now watch out on the secondary roads. Zack even in the overnight hours your crews were working out there as well because of the wind and downed trees. What are you seeing now . We have had a lot of downed trees overnight. The winds have been very rough, especially in the higher mountains. We have probably had 2030 trees down tonight. The crews are getting out, finishing up some of them right now as they are transitioned over to snow removal. Zack i know we have four county trucks out. We have two contracted trucks as well and they are taking out the salt. But there is other treatment on the roadways . We put down a salt and sand mixture, the sand help with the traction right now especially with some of the areas might be turning a little icy. The sand wi