particularly ice storms. cnn s allison chinchar is live from the weather center. talk about the complexity of the moving parts, allison? i have agree. the south not the best place to have the winter weather. but in their defense, no one could drive on ice. and that is the biggest concern of the storm. yes, we do have snow and a lot of it. you have areas of iowa, north dakota, already with over a foot of snow. even the capital of iowa picking up over 9 inches so far and that is the key because you still have a lot of snow. you could see the transition taking place around st. louis and kansas city. so crossed over into rain and more precip and it is sliding down to the south and then slide off to east. so we re going to have a lot of different impacts here. you have a ton of areas under winter storm watches, winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings and this ice storm warning across south carolina and georgia so that carolina and georgia is the
in the southern appalachians, in excess of a foot of snow there. but then the system gradually starts to slight up the he d to the mid-atlantic and the northeast are going to see issues as we transition into sunday going into monday as well. allison chinchar. quickly, i have a quick question. when you talk about half an inch of ice. how long does it take for that to dissipate or melt and do the temperatures in those areas that are coming in after this support that or are you looking at days of ice on the road? right. so for some of the areas, they may not get above freezing monday or even tuesday. so tit is going to be for carolina and georgia north, it is going to be a while. for areas like say atlanta georgia where the temperatures aren t going to be quite as cold or they ll warm back up on monday or tuesday. yes, that will allow some of the