Well happening right now.
Rain is in parts of North Texas and
winter weather it's on its way for
some of us as we give you a live
look from Weatherford right now.
This morning on Daybreak
we have team coverage.
Chris Sodeke is in our storm
tracker keeping us up to date with
what's happening on the roads.
He's starting out in Denton County
and we know the roads are prepped
and pre treated for any winter
weather we might see today. But
a reminder play it safe, take it slow
this morning to shower. Parker is closely
monitoring for crashes and backups this
morning as we all get out the door.
We'll get to our team coverage
in a few minutes, but first we
say thank you for joining us.
I'm mark, his talk.
Good morning. I'm Kara Solsa,
meteorologist Greg Fields,
tracking all this stuff behind us,
talking about the timeline, the amounts.
Greg, what do people need to
know as they walk out the door?
Yeah, it's gonna be wet out there.
As you head out the door this morning,
it is going to be a very wet
and very chilly morning commute.
Any wintry weather that's gonna hold
off until much later in the day.
So we'll talk more about
that for you coming up.
In the meantime, let's show you what
it looks like on radar this morning
that rain has really picked up.
Across the area and it is going
to be heavy at times too.
And as as we get out into
a Tarrant County right now,
you can see the widespread rain has
moved into Tarrant Denton counties
pushing on into Collin County right now
over toward the Frisco and McKinney,
looking at some heavier showers there.
And look over Lewisville right now.
We'll kind of zoom in on that area
heading right up I-35 there toward Denton.
Gonna have some pockets of some
heavier downpours,
maybe even some embedded thunderstorms
at times here in some areas,
especially a little farther South
as we go through this morning.
So the rain has really picked
up and you see how widespread it
is as we zoom out here.
So just.
About all of North Texas will be
picking up some rain and this will be
some much needed rain across the area.
Temperatures have fallen down into the lower,
mid and upper 40s right now.
We'll be in the low 40s through the day,
so well above freezing.
You have to go well West of Wichita Falls
before we run into any wintry weather.
So it is all rain right now,
but as we go through the day,
we will get some of that wet snow
mixed in from time to time and you
see the temperatures mid upper 40s
heading out to Denton at 4743 in
Gainesville and Sherman along the Red
River and 46 coming over to Dallas.
So we're going to be in the 40s
temperatures for the most part.
Holding steady right around 40 degrees
or so as we go through the day.
So again no big issues as far
as wintry weather is concerned.
Sticking on the year roads,
it won't be widespread,
but maybe getting a little slushy at times.
North and West of the Metroplex
we see Fort Worth right now,
the rain coming down 44 degrees,
feeling like it's 38,
so it is going to be chilly out there.
Those winds will come around as well
out of the northeast a little bit
later heading into the afternoon.
So looking at our time cast as we head
toward the end of the morning commute,
widespread cold rain still
across North Texas,
any wintry weather will be out to.
The top falls beginning to move
into our Northwestern counties and
then as we head into the afternoon
hours around midday,
maybe a wet snowflake or two
mixed in from time to time,
especially North and West of the Metroplex.
And that will be the case
heading home later today
as well. The rain may taper off just
a little bit, but it is still gonna
be a wet afternoon commute too.
So definitely keep the umbrellas handy.
Stay bundled up. Be prepared for that.
Give yourself certainly some extra
time heading on out the door.
So here's that day planner.
Widespread rain as we go throughout the day.
Those temperatures again holding steady
in the lower 40s, those northeast winds.
It would be pretty brisk as well as
we head home a little bit later today,
still looking at widespread rain.
But by late this afternoon,
heading on into the evening,
that's when we'll start to see some of
that rain mixed in with some wet snow.
So hopefully not big problems on the roads.
We're not anticipating that as far
as wintry weather is concerned,
but we don't need that to have
problems on the road.
So it is wet out there.
So let's get over to the Shara,
seeing how the roads look.
Yeah, Greg, I'm so glad you
mentioned that at the end.
We don't need anyone wintry weather
around here for things to pick
up in the traffic department.
Right now though,
things are looking decent.
I want to cycle through
some of these cameras.
It's over in Tarrant County and
then this is over near DFW Airport.
The roads are slick out there,
so of course give yourself some
extra time as Greg already mentioned
as you get ready to head out.
Right now we don't have any active accidents.
We just got off the line with Tech
dot Fort Worth also just got off
the line with techs dot Dallas.
Just ensure there's nothing
currently working out that way.
So again, Tarrant County,
Dallas County in the all clear as far
as accidents are concerned this morning,
next 30 minutes things don't look too bad.
Next three hours though of course
you've heard Greg mentioning it for
the last couple of days things.
Are going to change,
so please be careful as you
get ready to head out.
I wanna send things out right now
though to my colleague Chris Sodeke,
who's up and didn't county Chris.
We've seen some wet roads across our area.
What are you seeing out your way?
Yeah Chara, we left downtown Dallas
headed north on 35 towards Denton County
and it has been raining the entire time.
You can see right now,
I'll show you what we're dealing with.
The roads are wet and it's a pretty hard
rain coming down as it's been consistently
this whole time that we've been on the
roads and we've seen the text dot signage,
that electronic signage
warning drivers to slow down.
We also know that text dot did take
some time to pre treat some of the
major highways and the overpasses.
Now, right now it's not wintry.
Weather.
But of course even a wet Rd.
can still be slick.
So as you head out on your
morning commute today,
you definitely want to leave plenty of time.
And I'm going to send it in to Mario Ruiz.
It sounds like across the state,
Mariel, the conditions could
be similar or even worse.
Absolutely, Chris.
It kind
of just depends on where you're at.
If you're anywhere close to North Texas,
likely just seeing some cold rain.
But if you continue to travel to the West,
very different impacts.
This is a video sent in from
our sister station, KLBK.
This is in Lubbock, TX.
And what we're seeing
there as snowy conditions,
what I can see though with these kind
of flakes is that they're really fluffy,
indicating slightly drier air in place.
If we were to see some of this snow activity,
it's going to be more so
of a wet kind of snow.
But you could see there it
is blanketing the road there.
But again, all the same system,
different view as we switch our views here.
This is out of El Paso.
The National Weather Service tweeted
out this image overnight and you can
see there very light snowfall and it's.
Because this is a little bit more removed
from where the system is as a whole,
where we are seeing this
winter weather advisory,
it does extend into the Permian
basin portions of West TX
and into the Texas Panhandle.
This system though,
while it's causing snow in the Panhandle,
it'll continue to cause here some
wet conditions across Interstate
20 towards North Texas.
But I want to highlight also portions
of Southeast Texas closer to Houston,
closer towards the Gulf Coast.
Look at this later this afternoon.
Noticing some heavy,
heavy rain and not just that,
but the threat for severe weather as well,
that area under an enhanced risk,
that's Level 3 out of five for the
threat of not just damaging winds
but isolated tornadoes as well.
And we are looking at temperatures
here statewide also varying.
I'll have a look at that coming
up in the next hour mark.
OK. Thank you for that material.
As we tell you about warming
shelters in Tarrant, Denton,
Dallas and Collin counties,
which will be open today,
Tiffany Lee is going to walk us through
where people can go to get out of that.
All coming up at 5:30.
And a reminder, if we aren't on air,
you can certainly track the rain hour
by hour online using RWA weather app.
It is free to download in your App Store.