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>> Welcome back to our
continuing coverage 8.39 is the
time yeah we’ve got a lot to
talk about weather wise
depending on where you are some
of you may be seeing rain in
your neighborhood others are
seeing kind of a wintry mix bag
at this point. Let’s bring in
meteorologist Britta Merwin to
kind of break down.
>> What’s happening now and
what we can expect going into
the afternoon Britta yeah,
definitely you know this round
2 is going to be quite an issue
for our North counties, some
encouraging news if you live
along the coast here
temperatures are above
freezing. I know it’s cold 38
degrees in Galveston 34 degrees
in pearland but you’re above
freezing so we’re going to keep
it all rain for you guys the
farther north you get of I 10
pardon me that’s where we’re
going to have issues with
freezing rain this morning and
through the afternoon. Right
now temperatures are borderline
moving into Fort bend County.
So if you draw a line along I
10 and then hope down on 59.
That’s kind of that area worth
getting a little dicey I’m not
anticipating. Significant ice
accumulations in Fort bend
County or in Harris County but
the farther north you get it is
going to be an issue and that’s
an area where we do not
recommend traveling dangerous
ice conditions for North
counties, especially traveling
up you know towards College
station and Bryan the ice
accumulations there have been
incredible overnight through
this morning and we’re
anticipating that to be an issue for our North and
issue for our North and
Northeast counties as we go
throughout the day sliding down
south of the I 10 corridor so
we have a little bit of light
mixing happening in Fort bend
County again, I’m not
anticipating that being a large
issue but take extra caution
over the next couple hours.
Well, our temperatures are
borderline and also while we’re
still getting rid of the snow
and ice that has been on the
roads since earlier this week.
The rainfall in these areas
that are going to transfer to a
cold rain will help out in this
area. So if there was some
shady spots where ice was still
there. The Rain’s going to get
rid of it currently in Brazoria
County Galveston County.
We have a cold rain shower
moving on through we do have a
winter storm warning until
06:00AM tomorrow morning.
It does not include our coastal
counties but everyone else is
in it. A lot of this is for the
freezing rain that will impact
or North counties today but also there’s a chance that
also there’s a chance that
overnight, we have one last
blast of sleet or snow moving
through half of our computer
models show at the other halves
are not too confident on that if it does occur, we’re not
if it does occur, we’re not
anticipating major
accumulations but it’s just
another hit at a very long week
of winter weather that we’ve
been dealing with and it’s only
Wednesday, let’s take you
outside this live look at the
Southwest freeway visibility is
low. This is liquid rain snow
ice and concern in southwest
Harris County but definitely a
very cold rain. We could have a
few slick spots left over from.
You know I said it’s still
washing away in the rainfall
temperatures for most of us
here in Houston will get up
into the upper 30’s close to 40
degrees. This precipitation
chances very high until we get
into the afternoon and this
afternoon we’re going to dry
out a pas de la King, our
future cast model 1030 in the
morning. Any sort of the area
that’s dealing with a little
bit of freezing rain in metro
areas going to transfer over to
a cold rainfall but we’ll have
to watch that border of
Montgomery County and North
Harris County very closely
right now most of our computer
models kind of have you know
one ’05 being the major cut off
so central portions of
Montgomery County. If you’re
north of the one ’05. We’re
definitely looking at some
larger concerns for ice
accumulations past lunchtime.
We saw some chilly rain showers
in the metro area but those
start to really taper off
around 3 o’clock in the
afternoon. And then finally
around dinner time that
freezing rain up in our North
counties will finally come to
an end. Now let’s talk about
tomorrow. Heading into the
overnight hours and Thursday,
this is an example of one of
those computer model showing
some sleet or even some snow
mixing in look at these
temperatures below freezing in
Tomball 20’s out towards
Brenham and also Huntsville so
again if this were to occur.
We would have some frozen
precept it doesn’t look like it
would be south of the 59
corridor and also accumulations
would be extremely light that
it is in the the you know
forecast for some of those
computer models and that’s why
the weather service. It’s
allowing that winter storm
warning to continue through
06:00AM to account for the
uncertainty in the forecast
where we could see some
additional wintry weather
moving through the certainty is
definitely the issue with ice
and this going to be a large
issue for our North and
Northeast counties highlighted
in the darker pink is where we
could see maybe a 10th to a
quarter of an inch of
additional ice and that’s on
top of ice that is already out
there and that’s going to be
some issues farther off towards
the North and East we’re
looking at higher accumulations
possibly up to a half an inch
and that’s going to be hit by
Crockett and also left hand
that’s where power outages
could be a large concern.
I do want to bring in camera marshal Kim Burrell you’re kind
marshal Kim Burrell you’re kind
of looking at the wider picture
of what’s going on because
we’re not the only ones in this
no no in fact what was going
what we’re seeing is this is a
part of what’s going on around
the country.
>> Cold But we’ve got the
precipitation this interacting
with that cold air right now
that’s why we have the issues
we have with this until 6
o’clock tomorrow morning.
>> As Britt was talking about
with this freezing rain in
those areas that are dealing
with some of that colder
activity but down in Corpus
Christi 32 degrees and overcast
that’s kind of interesting
going to get that cold very
often but they were dealing
with this rain you see moving
out. Was there this morning
they had some fog and some
freezing mist 33 degrees in on
an overcast and San Antonio see
the rain moving away from them
as well look to the far West 36
and partly cloudy. In El Paso.
do you know, I felt a little
bad last time I said to want to
put didn’t die, Dallas, Fort
Worth on a map and but I put it
on the map this time 22 degrees
there now light snow and fog
and mist so pretty cold
temperatures around in all
those areas, especially to the
north you can see that the
really cold temperatures are
still pushing in from the
north. But nothing like what we
saw earlier this week when we
saw -45 in Prince Albert for
example much warmer now it’s a
relative term see down the
South and the South par with
just 4 Brownsville is the road
taking circular movement there
that’s around an area of low
pressure that’s right out there
with a warm front that’s
sliding up and that’s why we
have the warmer temperatures
that are along the coastal
counties for us and we don’t
have the freezing issues in the
areas to the north. That’s why
that’s in place look at the big
picture big area of high
pressure is still helping to
funnel some of that colder air
down through the central part
of the United States down to
where we are and that’s helping
to give this system the energy
it needs to continue to
interact with that
precipitation from the gulf
moving on off to the east end
upper level current about
35,000 feet up in the air
continue to go ahead and push
this you know this is the
steering wheel of storms we
call it as it continues to push
this is one future cast model
that pushes this from where it
is right now from about 7
o’clock look what happened so
we still have that warm air to
the south causing the rain and
just to the north you can
almost see where the dividing
line is the purples with the
colder air is interacting with
those Southern states, the
northern part of Louisiana,
Mississippi going at Alabama’s
going to have some of this as
it moves on out he long Gates
and once again that the eastern
part of United States Ohio
River Valley continues to get
the snow in place as well the
trend has got to be that’s
going to be going for it and
this is the area down in the
Houston area for tomorrow, 4
looks like there may be a
chance of some freezing precept
maybe some snow that’s going to