Not out of the clear just yet.
Let's go ahead and check it with
Mariel to see what we can expect
for the rest of the day. Hi, mariel.
Hi, great explanation there.
We do have still really
a lot of trouble spots.
We're looking at Dutton here,
temperature at about 32 degrees,
but you can still see that looks still
iced over one of those roads there.
The field also looking pretty icy.
So it just kind of depends
on where you're at.
Whenever we have this
preset that's still falling,
it is falling in the form.
Of liquid rain, so just regular cold rain,
but depending on where you're at,
it could still be freezing on
contact and a lot of that melting
on the roadways is happening.
When cars drive over, there's traction,
so a little bit of heat,
but it's not going to stay that way.
We're going to see some
patchy freezing tonight.
In fact,
right now we're right at the
freezing point at DFW Airport.
It feels like 24 degrees winds
are out of the north and West.
I am happy to report though the winter
storm warning that the ice storm warning.
Has expired and expired at 9:00 this morning.
We're still looking at a little
bit of that freezing drizzle moving
in and and slightly higher amounts
across portions of Wise County
towards Jax County seeing a little
bit of higher activity there.
Again a lot of this is going to
look just like liquid when it's
falling but once it hits and comes in
contact if that surface happens to
be freezing it's going to freeze on contact.
Mineral Wells along 281 there also
seeing some of that freezing drizzle
as well as in Weatherford but as we look.
East of I-35,
it looks like more just cold rain
starting to transition.
We'll continue to see this transition.
By the way,
the rest of the day over the last six hours,
you can see we saw a lot of pink,
now a lot of green and and that is
that transition back to cold rain.
It's still seeing a little bit
of activity from Archer City
towards Mineral Wells.
So definitely want to still be careful.
That's going to be the trouble
spot for this afternoon.
Areas north and West of the Metroplex,
the rest of the day plays out like this.
We make it barely above freezing.
This afternoon we're going to
see the cloud cover.
We're going to see the on and off cold rain.
And yes,
tonight we do see freezing temps again.
So we are going to still have some
slick spots by tomorrow morning
and we have been checking on the
roads for you all week long and
today is no different.
Let's go ahead and check in with
Chris Sodeke. Where are you?
Marielle, we're on 183 in Irving kind
of heading back towards Dallas and the
roads are so much better today than they
have been in the last couple of days.
But that doesn't mean it is a joy ride.
You can see here from our truck
camera that it is still very wet.
You got a lot of.
Ice on the side and as you are driving you
got this mist kicking up on your windshield.
That's why I'm going to get our
windshield wipers going here.
The ice is pushed off to the side.
You can see it on the shoulders,
which that can still be a hazardous
if you have to make use of the
shoulders for whatever reason.
Another thing I got to warn people about,
the ice flying off vehicles
is a real problem.
We almost got hit with a sheet of
ice that came flying off a truck
not too long ago and we've seen
it really all across the highway.
These people who have been leaving their
cars put for a while that ice getting on top,
accumulating on top,
then you hit the highway and
it comes flying off.
So that is a real problem.
Not a whole lot of cars
out on the road right now,
but definitely more than we've
seen in the past few days.
So there will still be some slick
spots and you can see as we swing our
camera around just how much ice is
still out there on the side of the road,
still going to be some slick spots, so.
Don't get too comfortable.
And you know,
as soon as I flip the camera to
me you see ice come flying off.
Just that's the way,
that's the way life goes.
As a TV reporter Jobin, you know it, right?
The timing is just always a second off.
I hear you're in Plano.
Hopefully you have a little,
little bit better timing than
I just right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We are here in Plano and
we're actually outside.
Chris, I don't know how you got that gig,
man being inside inside the heated car.
But hey take it if you can get it.
We're we're out here live off 7075.
And George Bush's big concern
right now are some of these these
the ice collecting on these trees.
And expert tells us it's not so much the
ice on the tree that affects the tree.
It's when those trees and the tree limbs
start to break in terms of the roads
we're seeing all kinds of conditions and.
And, and Chris told you a little bit about
it, as well as some of the dangers. You know,
we've got icy conditions on the road.
We've got slick sheets of ice.
This is something that you're
going to be dealing with when you
go out onto the streets here,
we're looking at 75 traffic moving
considerably smoothly compared to the
last two days on a lot more traffic.
We see what,
probably a lot more traffic in the last 30
minutes than we saw all of all of Tuesday.
All of your major intersections in
your city are likely sanded, salted.
The toughest roads you will be on are some
of the roads right next to your home.
Now in Plano,
we should know there are still
sanding operations going on.
Recreation centers,
libraries will still be closed today.
Those trash and recycling collections,
they're inspecting the routes right now,
reevaluating the conditions in those alleys.
Early today, they were seeing,
they were seeing a lot of low hanging
icy limbs like we just showed you.
That is a cause for concern,
you know and and if they if they realize
that those alleyways are cleared they
will start collecting trash at some
point later today reporting live here
in Collin County outside, unlike Chris.
I'm joking.
OK, he gets an extra coffee
or something next time.
Alright, thanks Joe.
Ben, make sure you have your WFA
app handy to keep up with any big
changes in the conditions today.
You can share your photos too.
We love to see those using
the near me feature.
I mean whether it's melting or not,
we want to know what's
happening in your area.
So thanks to everyone who has shared
photos and videos already this week.