WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 326 AM EST SAT DEC 12 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO
6 AM EST SUNDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS
IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY.
PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A MIXTURE OF
RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF
NORTH CAROLINA. ONCE THE PRECIPITATION BEGINS...TEMPERATURES WILL
COOL...ALLOWING FOR A TRANSITION TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN TO
OCCUR. THE WINTRY MIX SHOULD CHANGE TO MOSTLY RAIN BY MIDNIGHT
ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS...AS WELL AS THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS.
MEANWHILE...FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WILL
CONTINUE IN AREAS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE UNTIL EARLY SUNDAY. TRACE
AMOUNTS OF ICE AND SLEET ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND
WESTERN MOUNTAINS. HOWEVER...AREAS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE...FROM OLD
FORT...TO SPRUCE PINE...TO NEWLAND...COULD SEE UP TO ONE QUARTER
INCH OF ICE AND SLEET.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SLEET AND FREEZING
RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND
POWER LINES COULD CAUSE A FEW TREES TO FALL...AND RESULT IN
ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS...AND USE
CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
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