URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
420 AM EST Fri Dec 7 2018
...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION THIS WEEKEND...
.Cold high pressure along the East Coast will interact with a
Saturday night into Sunday. Moderate to heavy precipitation will
moist low pressure system moving out of the Gulf of Mexico
fall as a mixture of snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the
North Carolina region. Accumulations are expected to be greatest in western
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM SATURDAY TO NOON EST
MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation expected. Total snow
accumulations of 10 to 16 inches and ice accumulations of
around one tenth of an inch expected.
* WHERE...Portions of western North Carolina, including the upper
French Broad Valley to the Northern Mountains and Northern
Foothills.
* WHEN...From 7 PM Saturday to noon EST Monday.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Travel could be very difficult to
impossible. Road conditions could deteriorate as early as
Saturday evening, with highway travel continuing to be impacted
through early next week. Visibility may drop to less than a
half mile during periods of heavy snow. Widespread, prolonged
power outages are possible.
