1113 this Wednesday morning.
And here are things in Weatherford,
our tower Cam there as we are tracking
icy conditions across North Texas.
And you get a little bit
of a sense from that view,
just how much of that frozen precipitation,
that ice is still on the ground there.
Of course, we woke up this morning
to some winter weather warnings,
some icy storm warnings and really,
Mario Ruiz, when you look at what
we've seen from our reporters,
our crews all across the area,
we know that, boy, it is a morning.
You want to stay at home and turn on the
heater according to the supply and demand.
Apart from Arcot,
you can do that today because the supply
line is that purple line at the top,
that turquoise line is the
demand line at the bottom.
We don't want to see those lines
get too close to each other
and luckily they are not.
So when you can stay home and
you can stay warm,
that really is the best case
scenario is a couple of years ago
when the staying home part didn't
necessarily mean you could stay warm.
But so far for most folks that is the case,
absolutely.
And I'm so happy to see that just because
you know a couple years ago, I mean.
People just remember that whenever
we see any kind of winter precip.
I mean I lived there at you lived through
it and and we're we're right there with you.
You know it's always scary to see this.
However it's good to see that the
supply it's it's there and stay home,
use up, use the supply because I mean
that the roads are just treacherous.
We saw aerials update there at the top of
the hour and it was just really crazy to
see how slick some of these roads are.
I do want to emphasize that we do have the.
Winter Storm warning in place and that's
going to remain in place throughout the
rest of the day and it will continue
through nine in the morning on Thursday.
We also have the ice storm warning
from now until 9:00 on Thursday.
Again, ice accumulations in this
area due to freezing rain anywhere
between 1/4 to half an inch.
And what we're seeing now is that
transition from freezing rain into
sleet across a big portion of the area.
A lot of this moisture was
actually in Central TX early today.
And it caused a mess in that area.
I was checking in on some friends there,
a lot of them without power here
we're looking at this moisture now
moving back into North Texas.
So we're seeing this transition
across the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Denton still seeing a little bit
of that sleep,
which is more of the ice pellets
that we saw yesterday.
But across the rest of the area,
I mean,
we are seeing this freezing rain moving in
and and the freezing rain is very light.
It may even be deceiving.
It looks like regular rain when
it's coming down,
but it's when it hits the surface that
it causes the issues because it freezes.
Almost instantly.
So our time cast here,
I'm taking you through the rest of the day.
You can see it there.
We're looking at that transition
going back on Thursday.
So let's talk totals.
Anywhere between 1/4 to half an inch
is what we are expecting and this is
again along I-35 between Gainesville
to the Dallas Fort Worth area.
This is because of the freezing rain.
This is on top of what we saw yesterday.
This is not total.
This is added on top of that sleep
from yesterday and this extends all
the way into our Western counties.
It it does include areas of the big
country close to Abilene and South of there,
Coleman also included in that.
And with that being said, we also
have ice accumulations outside of this area.
This does include Hillsborough.
Barrow County towards Kaufman,
Hunt County, portions of Rockwall as well,
anywhere between 1/10 to 1/4.
In addition, that's today,
again, today.
Tonight is when we're expecting
this and that does extend all
the way into the Red River.
We're still going to see issues
outside of the ice storm warning.
It's just going to be a bit different
depending on where you're at.
As far as that ice storm warning,
what it means, because we haven't seen
something like that in quite some time.
It actually describes damaging accumulations
of ice during specifically freezing rain.
Events yesterday it was more of a sleep.
Today and it's more of a freezing rain.
This is issued when more than 1/4 of an
inch of ice of accumulation is expected.
Varies by state, but for us specifically,
it's 1/4 inch or higher and that's
exactly what our forecast calls for,
1/4 to half of an inch.
Now this kind of accumulation
of freezing rain,
it really can cause issues,
especially when we're talking
about it weighing down trees,
it weighing down utility utility
lines as well as any anything as
simple as walking and driving.
It is extremely dangerous.
We are looking at impacts,
anything underneath 1/4 of an inch.
Is going to see impacts on
windshields that are covered.
We already saw that.
We saw that yesterday.
Anything between 1/4 to half an inch,
which is what we're expecting
is when we're going to start
to see some pretty big impacts.
Roads turning icy,
we're already seeing that tree limbs may
start to break whenever this happens.
And more power outages.
Unfortunately this this last part,
that's what happened in
Central TX this morning.
Anywhere between 1/2 an inch to.
An inch plus,
which will be very unlikely for us,
but some isolated spots maybe
in our Southern counties.
This is where roads start
to be really impassable.
Tree damage can be major at this point.
So our time cast here across North Texas,
the Metroplex,
we're going to just see this on and off.
Freezing rain,
really expected the rest of the afternoon.
I'm showing you the timeline here,
Wednesday, 567 in the evening.
We'll continue to see this,
so definitely want to make
sure to stay safe out there,
stay inside, avoid the roads.
I know we keep saying the same
thing over and over again,
but this won't be completely out.
You heard Greg.
It won't be completely out of here
until Thursday afternoon and we
don't warm up until this weekend.
In fact, this weekend sunshine.
Highs in the 50s on Saturday, 60s on Sunday.
Can't wait for that Mark.
60S is going to feel like summertime
practically after this week.
Thank you for that, Marielle.