WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 709 PM EST FRI DEC 25 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST SATURDAY...
...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
11 AM EST SATURDAY. THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
THIS ADVISORY IS FOR MOST OF INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ALONG AND
WEST OF INTERSTATE 95.
A MIXTURE OF LIGHT SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE
THIS EVENING BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO MAINLY FREEZING DRIZZLE AFTER
MIDNIGHT. A COUPLE OF LOCATIONS...MAINLY NORTH OF THE MASS PIKE COULD
PICK UP A LIGHT COATING OF SNOWFALL. FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL MAKE ROADS
QUITE SLIPPERY...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS ON SATURDAY.
TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY CLIMB THROUGH THE 30S SATURDAY ALONG
THE COASTAL PLAIN ON SATURDAY AND RESULT IN RAINFALL.
HOWEVER...ACROSS NORTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW
HAMPSHIRE...TEMPERATURES WILL TAKE LONGER TO RISE TO THE FREEZING
MARK. THUS A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS THESE AREAS
INTO THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE MAIN BATCH OF PRECIPITATION ARRIVES
DURING THE EVENING.
GLAZE ACCUMULATIONS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM A TENTH
OF AN INCH OR LESS...PERHAPS SLIGHTLY MORE ACROSS THE MONADNOCKS
AND EAST SLOPES OF THE BERKSHIRES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SNOW AND/OR ICE IS
FORECAST TO DEVELOP IN THE AFFECTED AREAS...BUT ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT. ANY SNOW OR ICE WOULD MAKE DRIVING AND
WALKING DIFFICULT...BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE...ON UNTREATED ROADWAYS
AND SIDEWALKS. WHEN TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW FREEZING...MOTORISTS
NEED TO BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHERE
SLIPPERY SPOTS CAN EASILY DEVELOP.
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