Been a crazy day at the forecast office. Although my duties this week have been for the Triad market, the Charlotte market forecast started showing uncomfortable trends this morning, and now the National Weather Service has hoisted a Freezing Rain Advisory for ACA through 6pm Friday (a bit late in the day to end, but it's an across-the-board thing).
Precip starts this evening, albeit very light in nature, and intermittent, with temps above freezing...and at some point overnight go below freezing (before midnight, I'd guess). Temps should go back above 32 later Friday morning (hopefully), and the bigger push of precipitation should come right at sunrise, the coldest time period. The timing of the rain, time of day, and temperature is what is joining up to make this messy forecast.
Obviously, the least little ice accumulation can cause a problem, so the first heads-up early Friday will be to check your deck, steps, and leaves/vegetation for ice as they will coat well before roads will. The eastern edge of the Blue Ridge (not ACA) could see some locations get up to 0.25" ice, per the NWS, a damaging amount for sure....if it happens. Ultimately, it becomes all rain and these concerns vanish. Light snow on the backside is possible Saturday, but no accumulation.
32 degrees, and we have ice on the deck. It's still raining lightly, so looks like trying to get down the mountain this morning is out, although I'll wait until daylight to try and walk out to the road. We'll see how long it takes the ice to melt later this morning.
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Warning! There is ice on the road. Al Rose warns that ice is on big curve and near blue roof. Says others have slide off the road as well. Please go carefully.
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