Good morning, thank you for
being with us on Daybreak.
I'm Cara School at 4:30 on
this cold Wednesday morning.
We're already seeing weather
changes conditions in parts of
North Texas are starting to well.
Get a little messy.
Here's freezing rain in Tarrant
County and things are expected to
get dicey this later today with the
chance of ice we've been hearing
about this freezing rain and sleet.
Winter weather warning was actually
just issued a couple of hours ago.
Greg Fields and Mariel Ruiz are teaming
up this morning to keep us informed.
OK Greg.
So what are we seeing right now?
Because we know that at this
point only one school district.
Has decided to cancel everyone else is going.
Yeah, everyone else is going here
this morning that your precepts
gonna be like kind of isolated and
spotty in nature so we're gonna not.
It's not gonna be looking at the sleet
and the freezing rain the entire time.
We'll have kind of rounds of that.
Or bands moving through that the
1st when moving through very early
this morning around the Metroplex
as we are looking at that.
Does sleet mixed in with us?
Some freezing rain at times here
this morning picks up a little
bit right over DFW Airport,
South Lake Flower Mound out
toward the Texas Motor Speedway.
As we get into a Denton County there and
that's now pushing on over to Plano.
Getting up toward Allen here this morning,
so we'll have that to first round
round of what will be a few.
I think as we go through the
morning with the freezing rain,
the sleet and the freezing rain mixed
in there and that stretches over to it.
Dallas Mesquite getting out toward
Rockwall and Royse City as well.
Now we have been looking at
that Thunder sleet.
We've been getting reports of that and
we've seen the lightning strikes here
on radar across the Metroplex as well,
so don't be surprised by that.
We're going to talk more in detail
about that for you coming up,
but getting out into Wise County right now.
Looking at the pink shaded area there.
The sleet, the freezing rain.
Moving through that area here this morning.
So as we get all the way out toward
the Archer City, Wichita Falls.
We're looking at some heavier bands
there you can see the Lightning
strikes associated with that.
The mixture of the asleep,
the freezing rain,
and maybe even a little snow mixed
in out over the far northwestern
parts of North Texas.
Here early this morning that
we'll have some more rain may be
developing in our Southern counties,
but as it moves in to those temperatures
that are below freezing over most
of the area here this morning we
will have the scattered light,
freezing rain sleet mixed in.
A glazed perhaps of ice,
possible some slick spots out there as well.
As we get this first round,
moving on three so still take it,
take it easy out there.
Roads not as bad as they will be.
We think later on today,
especially heading into tonight
and for tomorrow.
So that's what you can expect
out there for today.
Now heading into the night and Thursday
it will get heavier with the Earth sleet,
the freezing rain,
higher ice accumulations,
travel problems are going to be
more likely as we head into tonight.
And as we look at Thursday going
into Thursday night,
we're talking about precipitation
ending a little bit from West to east.
So some very light preset.
Maybe leftover Friday morning,
and still maybe some issues on the roads,
but those temperatures will start
to recover a little bit
more. We think as we go
through the day on Friday,
so that will be some good news for us,
as we finally finally get the thought
and we'll finally get above freezing.
But that won't be the case as
we go through the day today.
Look at Fair Park right now.
29 degrees, feeling like it's 18 right
now with the freezing now or the
sleet and freezing rain coming down.
Those temperatures in the upper 20s.
Area wide this morning.
We're looking at 29 in McKinney,
those mid 20s up along the Red River
there for Sherman at 2524 in Gainesville.
Right now, Fort Worth at 27.
Those north winds are gonna be in
that 10 to 20 mile per hour range
and those wind chills out there
right now in the lower teens,
feeling like it's 12 in Gainesville
along with Fort Worth wind chill
of 19 and Waxahachie here this
morning along with Greenville.
So that's where we're going to be
dealing with with those temperatures,
even some single digits out toward Wichita
Falls in the Archer city here this morning.
So yes,
we will have some very cold
air that is in place.
Those temperatures almost 40 degrees.
Older I compared to what we were
dealing with yesterday at this
time and here is your day planner.
We are looking at the cloudy skies.
It's gonna be cold all day long
and we will have the periods of
that wintry mix mostly in the form
of sleet and some freezing rain
as we go through the day and those
temperatures for the most part,
holding steady with those north
winds at 10 to 20 windchills are
gonna stay in the upper teens all
day and those are daytime highs.
Won't be getting out of the upper 20s.
We may be lucky if we hit 30 in
a few places later on today.
And here's the advisories and
the alerts that we have.
Kerry didn't mention that we've
been upgraded in the Metroplex
areas farther north to a winter
storm warning right now,
so we'll talk more about the
accumulation that that could
be close to 1/4 of an inch.
Maybe in some areas before it's
all said and done,
and you see that winter weather advisory
for our large part of North Texas as well,
so the wintry mix is here.
It will be sticking around for awhile,
so let's bring in Marielle now to
talk about more of what we can
expect as we go through the day.
Greg. Appreciate that.
And yeah, we were talking about that
winter storm warning now being upgraded,
not just for the Metroplex,
but closer towards the Red River.
And it's for the.
Potential of just slightly
higher accumulations in the area.
I want to show you though what where that
freezing line is is something we'll take
very close attention to throughout the day.
I know it's a lot of
information on one graphic,
but let me break it down for you.
This freezing line right here.
It follows that 32 degree mark
anything to the South of that we're
talking temperatures above freezing.
Anything north of that
temperatures are below freezing.
There's something to also note
is that we're seeing freezing
rain and we're seeing sleet.
We're not seeing snow necessarily,
and it's because we do have an.
Elevated layer of warm air and that's
what's causing some melting before
it actually hits the ground into
that freezing temperature category.
Well, right now,
about 28 and Denton 29 in
McKinney about 29 in Dallas.
And that's what we're seeing
that freezing rain to sleet
transition let me show you how
this is going to play out though.
The remainder of the day throughout the day.
Notice this very scattered
in nature across North Texas.
It won't be a consistent rain by.
Any means it won't be a consistent
precipitation today by any means,
but we will see these pockets of
freezing rain and sleet throughout the
day now into the overnight hours we get
another burst of moisture coming in,
and this is where we could see
some higher accumulations if we
were to see those accumulations.
That that warning is specifying
anywhere between one to 2/10 of
an inch of ice and maybe up to 1/4
for some locations across portions
of the Red River,
then this is when it's going to happen.
It'll happen Wednesday night into Thursday.
You can see here.
Somehow slightly higher
intensities with that.
Freezing rain and sleet
moving across North Texas.
This is now showing you Thursday
around 5:00 in the morning.
Notice portions of Far East
Texas still seeing that rain,
but just about everywhere else.
The coverage looking a little bit
better in terms of the amount of area
it's taking up and the intensity
now through the morning Thursday we
start to see this thin out again and
then eventually those temperatures
start to climb above freezing.
And that's where we could see
a brief transition.
From this frozen pre set back into rain,
but for the most part it does.
Just clear from West to east and we
see some sunshine come Thursday late
in the day and into Friday and this
is that what we will be watching.
We'll be watching this elevated
layer of warm air.
It's going to make a big difference
when it comes to sleet and freezing
rain and I'll talk you through this.
We're also going to be talking
about why we're seeing
Thunder or why we're seeing Thunder
sleet across the Metroplex.
That's all coming up in
at just a few moments.
Kara, yeah, it's definitely.
I've dubbed it the word of the day.