URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
WINTRY MIX LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY ACROSS THE
SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND MOUNTAINS OF
NORTHEAST GEORGIA...
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MOVE
INTO THE AREA LATE TONIGHT BRINGING A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION
TO THE SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE MOUNTAINS
OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS A MIX OF SNOW
AND SLEET...THEN CHANGE TO FREEZING RAIN AND RAIN AS THE
ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY WARMS TUESDAY MORNING. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD
CHANGE TO ALL RAIN BY NOON AS WARMER AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA.
RABUN-HABERSHAM-SWAIN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-
SOUTHERN JACKSON
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT TO NOON EST TUESDAY...
* LOCATIONS...RABUN AND HABERSHAM COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
AND SWAIN...GRAHAM...JACKSON AND MACON COUNTIES IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
* HAZARDS...LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING
RAIN WILL CAUSE SLIPPERY ROADS.
* TIMING...WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND
CONTINUE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING BEFORE CHANGING TO RAIN BY LATE
MORNING.
* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATION OF UP TO 1 INCH...
ALONG WITH LIGHT ICING.
* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS.
* TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 20S TONIGHT WILL SLOWLY WARM ABOVE
FREEZING TUESDAY MORNING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
