And we're going to take a look
at our Fort Worth camera here.
What we're looking at is what the
definition of freezing rain is.
And that is rain that comes down, freezes
once it makes contact with the surface.
That's what we're seeing here on the
camera lens as we look over Fort Worth,
the temperature right now of 27 degrees.
Yes. And this is elevated.
So it's probably colder on this camera lens.
Soon as that rain comes in contact
with anything that's frozen,
it's going to freeze.
And that right there is ice.
That is now on our camera
there in Fort Worth.
We have that winter warning in place.
Winter Storm warning goes in effect
until 9:00 tomorrow morning.
It does include our eastern counties.
It includes Rockwall, Hunt,
Kaufman counties towards the east.
This is for sleet freezing rain
accumulations between 1/10 to 1/4.
And this is on top of
what we've already seen.
On the other side,
including Tarrant, Dallas,
Collin and Denton counties towards the West,
that has now been replaced with an
ice storm warning and it goes into
place until nine Thursday for ice
accumulations of 1/4 to half of an inch.
That is significant.
That means that we're going
to see this glaze continue.
We're going to see accumulations
on tree limbs.
We're going to see it on power lines.
Unfortunately,
it does cause that hazard.
Looking closer at radar at
this over the last hour,
we've seen the transition from.
Lead to more of a freezing rain
and that's going to continue
throughout the remainder of the
morning and into the afternoon.
The purple that you see that's sleet,
the pink that you see that
is the freezing rain.
I'm going to zoom in here across Dallas,
Fort Worth,
you can see that purple transitioning
into the pink within the last hour.
We're definitely seeing it
across all of Dallas County now.
Tarrant County still seeing a
mix of sleet and freezing rain
that extends from Saginaw to
the central part of Fort Worth.
Arlington.
Included in that,
I have been meaning to check on my parents.
There haven't this morning just yet.
They're in Arlington,
so Weatherford seeing a little
bit of that transition as well.
But the more W you go,
we're seeing more of a sleep.
So Graham seeing more of a sleep there,
Jacksboro, Jack County seeing a bit
more of that sleet South of Dallas,
Fort Worth.
It is that freezing rain that we're
seeing from Cleburne into Burleson,
Midlothian seeing just that and towards
the north and east seeing a bit more
of that purple meaning some more
sleet this more so across portions
of Hunt County we are looking at.
That area of seeing more of
that mix throughout the day,
that's why it's a winter storm
warning there versus that ice
storm warning Rockwall right now
by the way seeing both seeing
a combination of freezing rain
and sleet at the moment,
I'm going to take you hour by hour
here throughout the next couple of hours.
This is Wednesday around 11.
You can see that transition fully into
freezing rain across Dallas, Fort Worth,
across Denton and Collin County.
This is now noon.
You can see that coverage high across
Denton and Tarrant County as well and
that's just going to continue for this.
Afternoon, we're going to see
anywhere between 1/4 to half an inch
of accumulation where that ice storm
warning is 1/10 to 1/4 elsewhere.
I do want to bring in meteorologist Greg
Fields now to describe the difference
between that sleet and freezing rain.
Little
bit different situation now today
we saw the sleep yesterday,
today going to be a little bit different.
We are talking about freezing rain
so that they melted a little bit
what we had yesterday and then our
froze before hitting the ground.
So we had the Alpine,
the bouncing with the asleep yesterday,
but this is a melting as it gets
all the way to the surface,
but our temperatures in the upper 20s,
so it's falling as liquid now.
Freezing on contact with the ground.
So this is going to be a little
more dangerous, a little,
maybe a little more deceptive
as well with that freezing rain.
And we will eventually get that
transition over to all rain,
but that won't be until very late tonight,
heading into the early morning
hours on tomorrow.
So we'll be talking more about that.
So more of a freezing rain event today.
And here's what we're talking
about when we get freezing rain,
dangerous travel,
tree breakage and possible power outages,
especially in the red shaded
area where we do have that,
the ice storm warning that we've been
talking about a little further to the
east where we're going to get more
of that wintry mix of the freezing rain.
Sleet ice covered roads and power
outages that could be a possible
in those areas getting out toward
Greenville and Sulphur Springs and
then a little farther E more rain.
I think we're gonna see and we've
seen that in the Far East Texas
out over the architect region.
But still some icy roads especially
in our Southeastern counties where we
have seen that the ongoing freezing
rain here this morning and they'll
continue to see that this afternoon.
So anywhere you go across the North Texas,
we are going to be looking at some
impacts potentially from this winter
weather that we've been talking
about and it's going to be sticking
around for a while.