• 2 days ago
After snow sweeps through recently flooded areas of Kentucky and Tennessee, it's expected to slam Virginia and North Carolina.
Transcript
00:00A lot's going on as the storm moves east.
00:02Yeah, we're talking about the same
00:03kinds of impacts accumulating snowfall,
00:05accumulating ice that's going to
00:07create some dangerous situations,
00:08and we already have several alerts issued.
00:10Some of these starting to go into effect.
00:12Others not going into into effect
00:14until the early morning hours,
00:15but winter weather advisories,
00:17winter storm warnings in the dark
00:18blue and the green that you see here.
00:20These are flood warnings and you'll notice,
00:23like for example,
00:23this is along the Ohio River.
00:25A lot of these are along waterways
00:27where there are concerns about
00:29flooding because especially some of
00:31these areas like Kentucky, Tennessee,
00:32saw significant rainfall and
00:33flooding over the weekend,
00:34and now we're adding precipitation on to that.
00:37Here's the overall footprint of the storm.
00:39All of the areas that are set to be impacted.
00:41So let's break down exactly what to expect.
00:44First of all,
00:45some of the snow totals are not
00:47going to be very significant,
00:48but the rates 1 to 2 inches per hour.
00:51At times that quickly deteriorates
00:53things like road conditions.
00:54And then of course,
00:55with the ice we're talking difficult
00:57travel and even power outages.
00:58In some areas and impacts to some
01:00major highways right around the time
01:02when you're driving to work or school.
01:03I-64 I-81 I-95 and then of course we have
01:06the cold air that comes in behind the storm.
01:08So future radar.
01:09We're going to time this out and
01:11give you an idea of exactly what to
01:13expect so that you can plan ahead here.
01:15First 6 AM Wednesday we're moving
01:17into Kentucky, West Virginia,
01:18Tennessee.
01:18Again,
01:19this coincides with kind of morning
01:20commute times as we continue out
01:22through the day by the time we get
01:24to the evening hours, North Carolina.
01:26That's where really the biggest
01:27concern is as far as impacts for
01:29your evening commute 5 PM Wednesday.
01:31A lot of pink there.
01:32That means freezing rain accumulating
01:34on the road there.
01:35That is not a good situation.
01:36Definitely try to plan ahead if you can
01:39maybe leave work a little bit early,
01:40or at least give yourself extra
01:42time to get where you need to go.
01:44Now the other thing you'll notice we
01:46had two areas of low pressure here,
01:48but this storm set up so we have
01:50this next area of snow that develops.
01:52That's going to bring accumulating
01:53snowfall a little bit further North here.
01:55So then we have snow moving in
01:56Thursday morning to Pittsburgh DC,
01:58and then we move up the coast
02:00towards New York and Boston.
02:01Some areas only getting a coding to an inch.
02:04Other areas getting a little bit
02:06more accumulation in places like
02:07Cape Cod for example.
02:09Overall,
02:09we're looking at 6 to 12 inches
02:11of snowfall for Richmond.
02:12That's where our higher snow totals there.
02:15Highlighted in the darkest blue shade.

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