National Weather Service notice:
...ICE STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THURSDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED AN ICE STORM WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
THROUGH THIS EVENING...FLURRIES AND ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. HEAVIER AND MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO ADVANCE FROM THE SOUTHWEST BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 4 AM. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BEGIN AS A MIX OF SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN. BY DAWN THURSDAY THROUGH NOON...THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD PRIMARILY FALL AS FREEZING RAIN. ICE SHOULD BEGIN TO ACCUMULATE ON ELEVATED SURFACES SUCH AS TREES AND POWER LINES LATE TONIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE TO ACCUMULATE THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
TWO TO FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH OF ICE IS EXPECTED TO ACCUMULATE ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 85 FROM TOCCOA TO GREENVILLE TO GASTONIA BY LATE THURSDAY MORNING. DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES USUALLY BEGINS WHEN ICE ACCUMULATIONS REACH A QUARTER OF AN INCH. AT THE VERY LEAST...TRAVEL ACROSS UNTREATED BRIDGES AND OVER PASSES WILL BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
AN ICE STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. COMMERCE WILL LIKELY BE SEVERELY IMPACTED. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS AND WINDS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SNAPPED POWER LINES AND FALLING TREE BRANCHES THAT ADD TO THE DANGER.
Should be a fun drive in to work tomorrow morning.
1 comment:
shootin ducks is perty hard. ask a pool player he'll agree.
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