WINTER STORM WARNING
Well, we’ve been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning, effective from Midnight tonight until 6 a.m. Saturday morning.
At this time it looks like the northernmost counties in the region will get a generous dose of snowfall with rain, freezing rain, and sleet mixing in further south. Memphis and Shelby County could very well receive all of the above. The reason? Temps at and near the surface will teeter around 32 degrees, meaning precipitation in liquid and/or frozen form.
It looks like the event’s main push has slowed down, meaning it will linger into the latter part of Friday. This could translate into travel issues for Friday night and Saturday as well.
This is very much a dynamic system, so timing as well as precip types may change again.
As more upper air data becomes available throughout the evening, we will continue to evaluate what we think will happen.
We’ll keep you up to date on WMC-TV 5 & wmctv.com, plus Ron Childers & John Bryant will begin the morning newscast at a special time of 4:00 a.m. to you help make the important travel decisions.
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January 28th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Hey there. So, are the roads really going to be dangerously icy? Or just some patches of ice on bridges and such?
January 28th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
looks like the surface maps show the system has moved south and east. the freeze line looks to be north of Little Rock as of now. is the high over ga slowing the system?
January 28th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
hey
Dave Brown
It freezing in covington at 1020pm. I hae truck that out side it is alreay coveed with ice.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:15 am
We are sill waiting for something to happen here in Springfield, Mo according to the radar pics it is splitting and on both sides of us. We have nothing at this time. Hope this continues.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:23 am
I live just outside of Blytheville, AR and at this time we have sleet mixed with light snow, with ice on the ground up to around quarter inch. Thankyou for your coverage and I will be keeping my tv on wmctv 5 all morning.
January 31st, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Why would Shelby county schools be closed..who is in charge of making these decisions?
February 11th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
What’s the chances of significant snow for Oxford, MS Friday?