Welcome back, everybody.
So one of the questions that we're
seeing a lot on social media when
is this going to get better?
Well, we're not expecting to go
above freezing for a little while.
So we dropped to freezing
yesterday at 7:00 PM.
We don't expect to be above freezing
until about noon Wednesday.
So we have about 65 hours
total below freezing.
And that's why we have the
winter storm warning in effect.
All North Texas is included in this
ice accumulations, 1/10 to 1/2 an inch.
We're all right.
We are so cold, any little bit of
precip that falls isn't going anywhere.
Sleet or freezing drizzle or freezing rain,
it's gonna create icy conditions.
We're in the middle and upper
20s for the Metroplex.
Low 20s northwest of the
Dallas Fort Worth area.
Really close to freezing though in
eastern portions of North Texas.
Athens, Canton, Mineola, all at 32.
That freezing line sitting
in East Texas right now.
We took a look at radar.
Most of the Precip is starting
to ease up a little bit,
but this is just a break before it
becomes more widespread, steadier and heavy.
So here's what we have going on now.
Purple area is sleek, pink area.
Some freezing drizzle,
some light freezing rain.
Northwestern Collin County seeing a
little bit of freezing rain near Anna.
Denton's getting a bit of a break.
They've had quite a bit of
sleet already today.
There was a big burst of sleep with
Thunder and lightning from Weatherford.
It moved into Denton too,
so they already have a little
coating of ice in this area.
Roads just going to get worse right
now east of the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Some freezing drizzle mixed in
with a little bit of rain too.
There's Mount Pleasant seeing just rain,
Sulphur Springs, a little bit of maybe sleet.
Freezing drizzle mix.
So right now you see it's not very
widespread, but as we go through tonight,
we just stay cloudy.
And what we'll see if you watch here,
this is 6 PM.
You don't see much happening
overnight until tomorrow morning.
This is 7:00 o'clock in the morning,
so overnight.
Patchy, freezing, drizzle,
maybe a couple of sleep pellets.
Overall not very active.
However,
it's going to stay very cold,
so anything that does fall on
roads that won't be traveled on
very much overnight will turn icy.
So we expect tomorrow morning's commute
to be problematic with some ice.
It gets worse though,
as we head into the morning,
the morning hours into the midday hour.
This is 12 PM.
This is where we'll have some
steadier bursts of freezing rain
and a little bit of sleet that just
means traffic conditions get even worse.
All all area interstates,
all highways east of the Dallas
Fort Worth area.
There's where the freezing line is,
really depends where that sets up.
It looks to stay east of the Metroplex,
so there may be some just rain,
only rain in East Texas,
but we'll have a mix of freezing rain,
rain and sleet from Sulphur Springs
down through Canton and Corsicana
and just freezing rain and sleet
for the Dallas Fort Worth area.
And off to the northwest.
So this is 7:00 PM Tuesday.
Same thing. Wave after wave,
a little bit of freezing drizzle,
some freezing rain, some sleet.
It's all moving in
throughout the day tomorrow,
and that's when it's going to be at its
peak in terms of problematic travel.
So tonight,
through Tuesday's icy roads expected
across all of North Texas in spots but
the areas that will have the biggest impact,
Dallas Fort Worth area up to the
Red River and off to the West.
This circled area,
which is most of North Texas,
will have the worst problems.
That means bridges and overpasses.
Very icy side roads, icy even some highways,
interstates, the tollways.
Those will also see some ice on them.
Especially Tuesday, Tuesday night,
going into Wednesday.
There's the freezing line.
Keep an eye on it.
This is where it becomes really
important to watch the change.
7:00 o'clock in the morning Wednesday.
Still expecting slick travel across our area.
But then things start to
get a little bit better.
For some of you,
that freezing line is going to start
shifting a little bit farther to the West.
So what that means by midday,
we expect you to be right around
freezing or just above freezing for the
Metroplex or at least the Dallas area.
Probably not Denton County at that time,
but then it just turns to rain areas
E that will rapidly improve conditions
east of the Dallas Fort Worth area.
So freezing rain in the morning Tuesday
night through Wednesday morning,
that becomes mostly rain by the afternoon.
So the freezing light will start
to hike to the West.
Areas West of this line will still
see freezing rain and sleet.
On this side of the line, mainly just rain.
And any rain that would fall
would actually would would start
to erode some of the ice.
Things would get a lot
better Wednesday afternoon,
Wednesday evening.
The forecast low for DFW
Wednesday night is 34,
so we should stay above freezing
for most of the Metroplex.
Still though, Western portions
of North Texas not there yet,
certainly not there until Thursday.
That's when things get a lot
better across all of North Texas.
So tonight we had a long road
ahead of us tonight,
28 degrees cold, cold and cloudy.
Tomorrow, 30, that's the DFW high.
Some of you stay in the 20s.
Freezing rain, drizzle, sleet.
It's all in the forecast tomorrow
and Wednesday, just rain on Thursday.
The morning low Thursdays 37 will climb
into the upper 40s Thursday afternoon.
So we're not worried about
frozen precip on Thursday.
And then,
my goodness,
by the end of the weekend we're not
even going to be thinking of ice.
It's going to be 62 by Sunday,
OK.