WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 427 AM EST FRI DEC 25 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON
TO 10 AM EST SATURDAY...
THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 10 AM EST SATURDAY.
PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE INTO THE WYOMING...LACKAWANNA VALLEYS AND
POCONOS THIS AFTERNOON...INITIALLY STARTING OFF AS PLAIN RAIN AS
SURFACE TEMPERATURES HOVER JUST ABOVE FREEZING. POCKETS OF
FREEZING RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE INITIALLY WHERE TEMPERATURES REMAIN
NEAR FREEZING. BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING TEMPERATURES WILL
DROP BELOW FREEZING CHANGING THE RAIN TO FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY
MIXED WITH SNOW OR SLEET. PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD BY
EVENING AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO
PLAIN RAIN.
TOTAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A FEW HUNDREDTHS TO UP TO ONE QUARTER OF
AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY
MORNING.
THE HARDEST HIT AREAS WILL LIKELY BE THE POCONOS WHERE
SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW FREEZING
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EVENT. INTERSTATES 80...81...84 AND THE
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE WILL LIKELY BE IMPACTED THE MOST BY ICING.
IN CONTRAST...THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS MAY ONLY
EXPERIENCE A LIGHT GLAZE OF ICE AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL HOVER
NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE FREEZING.
TRAVEL ACROSS THE AREA WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS...ESPECIALLY FRIDAY
NIGHT AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES COOL. ANYONE TRAVELING ACROSS THE
AREA SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS AS
ROADWAYS WILL BECOME SLIPPERY AND HAZARDOUS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
$$
PN/EH
|
|
|
