WINTER STORM WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 349 PM EST WED DEC 23 2009
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING.
* TIMING: LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN THURSDAY
EVENING...AND THEN CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING.
* MAIN IMPACT: AROUND A QUARTER INCH OF ICING MAY BE WIDESPREAD BY
NOON THURSDAY. AREAS ALONG AND ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BLUE RIDGE
PARKWAY MAY SEE UP TO A HALF INCH OF ICING.
* OTHER IMPACTS: THIS AMOUNT OF ICING MAY DOWN TREE LIMBS AND
POWER LINES.
* OTHER IMPACTS: ROAD TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY
MORNING MAY BE COLD ENOUGH TO BECOME ICY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT
SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.
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