SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Issue Date: 409 AM EST SUN DEC 20 2009
Expiration: 1000 AM EST SUN DEC 20 2009
...PATCHES OF BLACK ICE ON ROADWAYS EARLY THIS MORNING...
TEMPERATURES ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WERE AT OR BELOW
FREEZING EARLY THIS MORNING. THESE FREEZING TEMPERATURES COMBINED
WITH THE RECENT SNOW MELT OR RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM RECENT RAINFALL
ON ROADS MAY LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIN SLICK SPOTS KNOWN AS
BLACK ICE.
THE THREAT WILL BE GREATER ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES...AND ON
RURAL...LESS TRAVELED ROADS WHICH HAVE DRIED LESS THAN PRIMARY
ROADS. HOWEVER THIS MAY MAKE FOR AN ENHANCED THREAT ON PRIMARY
ROADS...AS ISOLATED ICY PATCHES RARELY ENCOUNTERED...MAY MAKE FOR
OVERCONFIDENCE IN SOME DRIVERS.
MOTORIST SHOULD CONSIDER USING CAUTION EARLY THIS
MORNING...ESPECIALLY ON CURVES...BRIDGES...AND LOW SPOTS WHERE
PARTICULARLY COLD TEMPERATURES MAY MAKE ICE MORE LIKELY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
Issue Date: 344 PM EST SAT DEC 19 2009
Expiration: 345 PM EST SUN DEC 20 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
PATCHY BLACK ICE WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF
HIGHWAY 64 AS RESIDUAL MOISTURE ON AREA ROADS FREEZES DUE TO
TEMPERATURES DROPPING BELOW FREEZING.
MOTORISTS TRAVELING THIS EVENING AND SUNDAY MORNING NEED TO BE
AWARE OF PATCHY ICY SPOTS. ROAD SURFACES THAT APPEAR WET WILL
LIKELY BE FROZEN.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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