QUICK Weather update....

Howdy, y'all...

I reckon you know I love to infuse pictures and artistic text dialogue...and though I have some nice pics of my Red-Tail Hawks to post, I'm still editing and a ways away from posting those pics....

With that said, a lot of you are checking in for my latest take on the weather, sans pics...

H'yar it is, y'all....

I get a lot of requests for CLT weather...this is focused on TRIAD weather, FYI...interesting set-up as we have and will have a COLD, DRY arctic airmass over the Triad today...yes, there is NO high in PA/NY/ New England to drive a cold wedge that way...what we have is 'in situ' factors that will build a cold wedge by natural laws and processes....

FOR THE TRIAD...

2-4" of snow/sleet before mixing in freezing rain, for Surry, Yadkin, and most of Stokes County, maybe a NW corner of Forsyth...for the major cities of Greensboro, W-S and High Point, 1-3 inches before a transition to sleet and freezing rain...and less to points east and south.

Ice accumulations should be 1/4" or so, but some locales may approach 1/2"...that would mean some downed trees and power lines. Luckily we have no big wind fields to whip trees and lines around, but icing is still a BIG concern.

ONSET is still AFTER we all head to school and work in the AM...this is a MAJOR problem as the roads should deteriorate quickly, which means shuttling students and workers home when roads are worsening...a HUGE 'UGH' for us....TRIAD temps are expected to hold at or below freezing all day long...which is self-explanatory in terms of travel woes.

Been on two conference calls today, one with Greenville-Spartanburg NWS office and one with Raleigh NWS office...there is a querulous situation with some News14 Triad counties since Blacksburg, VA controls you, and their watch/warning criteria is MORE than what we have in the Carolinas...so the watches and warnings may not exactly 'match up'...hence no 'watch' when everyone else was in one...

Suffice it to say we have a day where roads will quickly deteriorate on Thursday, and I advise any and all to hunker down and avoid getting out if at all possible, Thursday...

I will update early in the morning, Thursday, when I get a 'good' feel for the latest information...