Good evening i am chennai. The Winter Weather eight advisory is in effect for tomorrow. All of these close tomorrow. Roanoke rapids, wayne and Wilson County schools. Chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein joint us. As you can see, it just doesnt look like anything is going on. We are waiting on an area of low pressure that will develop to ourselves and eventually bring moisture into our area to bring us what i would call a minor weather event. Because the roads are so cold, anything that falls will stick and become slick. Tomorrows event is one of three. We have a stronger blast of cold air coming in this weekend. Another Winter Weather system and tuesday. The first of three starts with this. We are all below freezing in the 20s. That is very important. If it was 70 degrees yesterday and we brought in snow tomorrow, a lot of it would melt before it accumulated. We have been cold all week. That first flake is going to melts. Psg just try. It looks like it will start later. After 10 am wrapp
Because the roads are cold and theres slick spots i will call it a medium event and that is tough one on what schools are going to do. There are changes possible but a lot of this is going to happen after the morning commute and before the evening commute. Heres what we are thinking. Bulls eye is one to two inches and thats east of the area. Up to ionch for a lot of us an inch for a lot of us and a dusting out to the west. I will take you through the day hour by hour coming up in few minutes. We will go over this map a little more and we have colder air this weekend. See you in a few minute for the details. Speak of the roads late this afternoon bill reh met to talk about president ials ahead of the possible Winter Weather and this is what he had to say. We have a little snow tomorrow and in 2005 woad snow forecasted in the middle of the day similar with a very cold morning and we had gridlock. Right. The big difference is brine we didnt brine back then and we were out today all around
The good news is the Severe Weather threat is over, but yes this is the biggest Severe Weather outbreak we have had since april 2011. A year ago we had snow on the ground, we can half a half ago we had snow and sleet. But tonight the radar is dry. Remember this started as heavy rain before the sun came up, and then things really got cooking this afternoon. The National Weather service here in raleigh, issued 21 Tornado Warnings today for central North Carolina. All of last year, they issued five. An incredible outbreak today. That is tonight, it has cleared out, but more changes are on the way tomorrow. As for tonight, in the overnight hours, look at our current wind gusts it is still a windy evening, and these winds will not be a strong as we headed to the overnight hours but it is to want to be breezy, including when you head out the door tomorrow morning. The warm front that moved way up there to the north. Now we wait on a cold front that will move through and drop our temperatures
Mississippi through alabama and georgia. It has weakened some, but the impact here tonight do not look like they have changed much as we headed to tomorrow. This is not the snow, and sleep we had a week ago. This is also not the Severe Weather outbreak we had five years ago that brought 30 tornadoes to the state. I got that question a few times tonight. It is our biggest threat of Severe Weather, so far this season. Even though it is still f ebruary. Tonight, all is calm, not a lot showing up on the radar, but it is still cloudy, foggy, misty and drizzly outside. Its still chilly. One of the things that is going to start this whole process that leads us into tomorrow is this warm front. That will move through, and bring us unusually warm weather around 70 degrees tomorrow. It is also going to bring us that unusual threat of Severe Weather in late february. This area of low pressure will slide over North Carolina, combined with the moist air and warm energized atmosphere to bring us the
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