8am Friday Update: Computer weather models are not in complete agreement at this hour. The event is within 12 hours from beginning in the Southeast (SC, NC) so let’s go with where our confidence is highest.
There will be a major snow event for western and central North Carolina. There will be a major snow event for nearly the entire state of Virginia.
Washington, DC – this is still a major snowstorm for you. Delaware, you are in the snow crosshairs too.
South Jersey, get ready for a plowable snow.
This is where things get tricky. Does the winter storm take more of an easterly track and move away from the big Northeast cities of the I-95 corridor.
Or does the winter storm, intensify into an even more powerful storm, head north and produce blizzard conditions for Philadelphia, New York City and eventually Boston.
That is the major question of the morning. We still don’t have a concrete answer. But we’ll continue to follow the latest updates through the morning.
In the meantime winter storm warnings and watches are plastered across the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast.
A blizzard watch is in effect for Long Island.
Freezing Rain Advisory Genesee County (Michigan)
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
205 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2009
...FREEZING RAIN THIS MORNING INTO THIS AFTERNOON...
.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER ILLINOIS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST
MICHIGAN TODAY. LIGHT PRECIPITATION IN PROGRESS AHEAD OF THIS
SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE AREA BEFORE SUNRISE AS
SURFACE TEMPERATURES REMAIN IN THE UPPER 20S. FREEZING RAIN AND
FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL THEN CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING AND INTO THE
FIRST HALF OF THE AFTERNOON UNTIL THE LOW PASSES TO OUR EAST LATER
IN THE DAY. LOCATIONS SOUTH OF M 59 WILL WARM ABOVE FREEZING BY
NOON WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING ABOVE FREEZING AS FAR NORTH AS THE
INTERSTATE 69 CORRIDOR DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THE TRI CITIES
AND THUMB WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH THE FREEZING MARK BY LATE IN THE
DAY...JUST ABOUT AS PRECIPITATION ENDS...MAKING THAT AREA MORE PRONE
TO ICING UP TO A TENTH INCH.
MIZ047-048-053-060-061-068>070-041700-
/O.EXT.KDTX.ZR.Y.0001.090104T0705Z-090104T2100Z/
MIDLAND-BAY-SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE-GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-OAKLAND-MACOMB-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MIDLAND...BAY CITY...SAGINAW...OWOSSO...
FLINT...HOWELL...PONTIAC...WARREN
205 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2009
...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON...
THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON.
PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL OCCUR OVER THE
AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS. THIS WILL RESULT IN ICING ON
UNTREATED SURFACES AND ELEVATED OBJECTS...UP TO A TENTH
INCH...UNTIL TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING BETWEEN NOON AND 4 PM.
A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN OR
FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES AND WILL HAMPER
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS. SLOW DOWN AND
USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
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