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Cold and snow to come! Thursday morning windchills will be in the 8 to 15 range during a Cold Weather Advisory. A Winter Storm Watch will be in effect Friday and Saturday during a burst of snow, sleet and freezing rain.

WRAL Weather Alert Day for Friday and Saturday ahead of snow, sleet, freezing rain

Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Big changes as you're waking up and heading out the door this morning. First, a winter storm watch was issued by the Weather Service this morning. It covers the entire viewing area. We could see up to 3 inches near the Virginia line. We can also see some significant icing in our southern counties and through the triangle, it's gonna be a bit of a mixed bag. Uh, we could see, of course, a little bit of everything, probably around 1 inch of snow and some glazing of ice and some sleet as well. Let's take a look at Futurecast. This may begin briefly as some rain, middle of the afternoon tomorrow, and then changing over to snow pretty quickly around say 4 or 5 o'clock. So keep that in mind as you're making your plans. By 8 o'clock, if this model is right, that snow is coming down pretty steadily, heavily, most likely coating the roads and making it messy. So you really need to get into wherever spot you're going to be by around 5 o'clock and stay there overnight as the roads will get really messy. We'll move But on ahead to 10 o'clock, we start to see that changeover in our southern counties, and then by around 1 or 2 a.m. that changeover starts around the triangle. So we'll have a good number of hours to see that snow falling, but it will change over to sleet and then to freezing rain, and then rain as we get into early Saturday morning. So, this is a look at our potential snow forecast, up to 3 inches around, say, South Hill, around Raleigh, probably closer to 1 inch, and then less than 1 inch in our southern counties. I forecast, we could see. Uh, our ice accumulation, uh, a 10 to maybe 2/10 of an inch with the potential for an isolated power outages outage, but it doesn't look like it would be widespread. So we're gonna start as a little rain changing over to snow for a while, and then to sleet and freezing rain, roads will become slick, so you can keep that in mind for your Friday night. Expectation for a lot of us is a winter wonderland with lots of snow and sledding. The reality is likely to be more of a wintry mess with some rain. Uh, mixing with some freezing rain and some sleet. For this morning, we have a cold weather advisory that's in effect, that is the previous wind chill advisory, so it's gonna feel like single digits and teens heading out the door. I expect it to feel like mid to upper teens, and then in some places as we get through the morning hours, it could drop into single digits. So just make sure you're bundled up, headed out the door. This is a great day to check in frequently on WRLT as we'll have updates throughout the day.

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