Severe Weather Center

Cloudy to mostly cloudy skies with any precipitation tapering off this evening. Lows in the lower 30s. We may see some icy spots by daybreak due to some freezing of the remaining water on the elevated roads and bridges.

A WINTER STORM WARNING is in effect from the Triangle and points west. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is in effect for our eastern counties. What a mess for the day today as a winter storm will impact our area with snow and sleet at the start of the day with some freezing rain and rain in our southeastern counties. Through the course of the day we have warmer air moving in from the coast which will help to transition the wintry precipitation over to rain. Here in the Triangle and north and west it will happen after lunchtime and toward the end of the event. We are leaning to the faster solution in the models which will have the system arriving quicker and departing in the early evening hours. It will be windy in the afternoon with 15-25 mph winds and gusts up to 30-40 mph from the northeast and then from the southwest in the evening as low pressure moves by. As the low approaches and tracks farther west than first thought, warmer air will move in during the afternoon so what was frozen the first part of the day will melt with rising temperatures and rain. By far travel will be more hazardous in the morning than it will be in the afternoon and evening since roads should be mainly wet instead of frozen.

• Sunrise

  7:23 a.m.

• Precip

  100%

• Wind

  Northwest 10 mph

• Sunset

  5:25 p.m.

• Precip

  30%

• Wind

  Northwest 10 mph