WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 910 AM EST FRI DEC 04 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS
EVENING.
A SYSTEM WILL QUICKLY MOVE ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA
TODAY...PROVIDING A PERIOD OF STEADY SNOW. SNOW WILL BE HEAVIEST
IN THE MORNING...AND THEN IT WILL DIMINISH TO FLURRIES FROM
SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON.
ONE TO FOUR INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WEST VIRGINIA
LOWLANDS...DEPENDING ON ELEVATION. IN THE MOUNTAINS...THREE TO AS
MUCH AS SIX INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED BY THIS EVENING BEFORE THE SNOW
TAPERS OFF.
INITIALLY WARM GROUND WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATION ON ROADS ALONG THE
RIVER VALLEYS...BUT BRIDGES AND OTHER UNTREATED EXPOSED SURFACES
WILL BE VULNERABLE TO SNOW ACCUMULATION...AND THUS WILL BE
SLIPPERY AND HAZARDOUS.
AS THE STORM SYSTEM PULLS OUT OF THE AREA LATE TODAY...TEMPERATURES
WILL DROP WELL BELOW FREEZING...CAUSING ANY WET ROADWAYS TO FREEZE
OVER. UNTREATED WET ROADWAYS WILL TURN ICY AND HAZARDOUS THIS
EVENING.
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