WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 432 PM EST FRI DEC 04 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM EST SUNDAY...
THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM EST
SUNDAY.
THIS ADVISORY COVERS MUCH OF NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN AND
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE.
PRECIPITATION AT 430 PM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF QUICKLY CHANGING TO
ALL SNOW AND IT WILL SNOW HEAVY A TIMES BETWEEN 5 PM AND 10 PM.
SNOW WILL THEN END BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 3 AM. CLEARING FOLLOWS AND THIS
IS A RECIPE FOR DANGEROUS BLACK ICE CONDITIONS FORMING AT DAWN UPON
PREVIOUSLY TREATED SURFACES.
STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO GENERALLY RANGE FROM 2
TO 5 INCHES... EXCEPT POSSIBLY AROUND 6 INCHES ON SOME OF THE HIGHER
TERRAIN OF WESTERN HARTFORD COUNTY... NORTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY
CONNECTICUT AND THE WORCESTER HILLS.
SNOW THIS EVENING MAY STILL BE WET AND THIS COULD ALLOW FOR SCATTERED
POWER OUTAGES IF ACCUMULATIONS OF MORE THAN 4 INCHES OCCUR ON LIMBS
AND POWER LINES IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT.
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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