WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 303 AM EST SAT DEC 26 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY...
THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST
TODAY.
THIS ADVISORY IS FOR MOST OF INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ALONG
AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 95.
A MIXTURE OF LIGHT SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL
CONTINUE THIS MORNING. A FEW SPOTS...MAINLY NORTH OF THE MASS
PIKE...COULD PICK UP A LIGHT COATING OF SNOWFALL. FREEZING DRIZZLE
WILL MAKE UNTREATED ROADS QUITE SLIPPERY.
GLAZE ACCUMULATIONS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM A TENTH
OF AN INCH OR LESS...PERHAPS SLIGHTLY MORE ACROSS THE MONADNOCKS
AND EAST SLOPES OF THE BERKSHIRES. ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE
FROM A THIN COATING MOST PLACES...TO AROUND AN INCH ON SOME OF THE
HIGHER HILLS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE.
TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY CLIMB THROUGH THE 30S ALL AREAS
TODAY...CHANGING ANY SNOW OR ICE TO RAIN BY THIS AFTERNOON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SNOW AND/OR ICE IS
FORECAST TO DEVELOP IN THE AFFECTED AREAS...BUT ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT. ANY SNOW OR ICE WOULD MAKE DRIVING AND
WALKING DIFFICULT...BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE...ON UNTREATED ROADWAYS
AND SIDEWALKS. WHEN TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW FREEZING...MOTORISTS
NEED TO BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WHERE
SLIPPERY SPOTS CAN EASILY DEVELOP.
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WTB
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