Good morning and welcome to
another early edition of Daybreak.
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information you need to start your day.
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Yeah, just a minutes ago.
An ice storm warning now covers
a large part of North Texas and
the majority of the Metroplex
Greg Fields tracking this storm.
Greg, we know that changed
literally less than 1/2 hour ago.
Finished all morning and also the ice
storm warning that you just mentioned,
both of those has been extended time
wise and a coverage of wise as well.
So let's start with that here this morning
with that winter storm warning is still
in effect now until 9:00 AM on Thursday.
So we're going to be talking about
those temperatures that won't be
getting above freezing until maybe
after 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning.
So yes, we're still going to be dealing
with some significant winter weather out
there for us here as we go through the day,
the ice storm warning.
So it does now include Dallas,
Collin County.
So it has been extended a little further,
E includes a couple of more counties.
6:00 AM here this morning until
9:00 AM on Thursday as well.
So we are talking about significant
ice accumulations and that ice
storm warning here in that area,
something you don't see too
often that I used all morning.
So we're gonna be talking more in detail
about just what this means and what
we can be expecting in this area here
coming up a little bit later as well.
So you see all of North Texas is going
to be impacted by this wintry weather.
The next round of what looks like
it's going to be more freezing rain.
So that potentially could be
a little more dangerous,
a little more hazardous as far
as the power lines, the tree.
Branches and that kind of thing.
We'll talk more about that as well
as we go through the day as well.
In the meantime, temperatures,
yes,
they are still well below freezing upper 20s
this morning taking you out to Fair Park 26,
the actual temperature
now feeling like it's 17.
So it's pretty quiet out there.
We haven't seen a whole lot
in the way of precip yet,
but it is about to pick up looking at mid
upper 20s with those temperatures close
to 30 degrees in our Southern counties.
But you see everyone below freezing here
this morning and we're likely going to
stay there as we go throughout the day.
So here's what it looks
like on radar right now,
not a whole lot out there.
What we are seeing has been a little sleep.
It's been a light little freezing rain.
Mixture out to what Greenville and commerce.
But let's zoom out a little bit
and you see the next batch of
heavier precipitation down I-45
getting out toward Corsicana mahea
in the form of that freezing rain,
a little sleet mixed in there as well and
then out toward Breckenridge and Eastland.
So as we go through the morning hours
heading toward the morning rush,
we do expect an increase in coverage
with that to freezing rain sleet mixture.
I think that's what we'll see
more of early on.
And then we'll get that transition
over to all freezing rain.
So we will have periods of the freezing rain,
some of that that could be a heavy,
maybe some heavier bursts.
As we go through the day,
that's around lunchtime as we
head toward 11:12 o'clock here,
and then as we head on toward
that 33 this afternoon,
widespread rain and freezing
rain across the area.
Freezing rain,
I should say the rain is going
to be off to our E as we head
into the evening hours here
for today on into East Texas.
So we're still going to be dealing with
the freezing rain as we head toward
three o'clock here this afternoon.
And then as we head toward the evening hours,
not much is going to change.
We'll continue to see the freezing
rain across the area by 5:00 PM,
so the afternoon commute.
As we've been telling people going back
to yesterday when we had the asleep,
just stay indoors,
stay off the roads because this
is not gonna be a good situation
at all as we go through the day.
Because again we are talking
about more freezing rain.
So that's gonna be falling as liquid
freezing on contact when it hits
the ground and that's going to be
on top of what we saw yesterday.
So yes,
this will be making any roads out
there force across anywhere you go
across North Texas are very treacherous
as we head into this afternoon.
Now as we transition on
into the rest of the day,
we're looking at temperatures
won't be warming up much.
So we'll be looking at those upper
20s as we head into this morning,
maybe around 30 hitting 31
degrees as we head into the
afternoon hours here for today.
But you see how widespread that rain will be,
the freezing rain will be
as we go through the day.
So we are talking about a nearly
100% coverage by the time we get
into the afternoon and that will
be the case this evening as well
with those temperatures again right
around 31 or so as we head into the
evening hours here for tonight.
Now we'll keep temperatures right around,
probably just below freezing
even into the overnight tomorrow.
We'll continue to see the periods of rain,
freezing rain.
Transitioning over to all rain,
it looks like by late morning as
we head into the morning hours for
tomorrow won't be until probably
after 9:00 o'clock.
We see those temperatures finally
get above freezing and then we
are talking about still some cold
rain hanging around as we go
through the first part of Thursday.