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you a eaonow sue ee:0ted bng ship fain k doonthsnthans ivbua pretty shot so -- >> it's been getting deeper steadily as we have been watching this camera over the last hour and a half. >> some of that is induced by the terrain and so, you know, all -- that snow will stay there, you know, but the part that is now moving into our area, we now have reports of some snowflakes falling in chapel hill and up around roxboro so slowly working its way eastward and temperatures dropping quickly once it starts snowing. it's in the upper 20s in greensboro right now, roxboro is down to 32 so we are not going to stay above freezing very long once those flakes
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to the ground. i believe here. we are going to start with temperatures. these were high temperatures earlier today and so everybody made it above freezing and obviously there's something i erroneous about the reading in newberg. they are not getting 70-degree temperatures there today. some sort of a problem with the instrumentation. it happens. you can see the leading edge of the echo is getting into western wake county but one thing we have noticed through this entire afternoon is that the snow doesn't start falling along the leading edge of it. you have to go back into the band quite a bit before you see the snow reaching the ground. you go back here around chapel hill and it's there they are beginning to see the snow reach the ground, same thing happened in greensboro, echoes over them for a long time and took a while for the atmosphere to
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come down so human beings could see them. where it hasn't snowed vigorously yet, temperatures above the freezing mark. and south temperatures all above freezing at this particular point in time. system number 1 now moving across central north carolina and we will throw a few flurries and periods of light snow our way and with temperatures falling too we are just below the freezing mark during that time. there are likely to be at least a few slick spots out there and the winter weather advisory in effect for the triangle goes until 10:00, so be careful if you're out there traveling. i don't think it's anything that common sense won't get you through but we don't want you to think that it's just a clean slate because it's not. now, the next system is much more impressive. it doesn't look that way right now, basically it's an upper level system with that growing area of snow here over kansas but in the upper atmosphere there's a lot of energy with this and once it starts to approach the east coast of the united states, the atlantic ocean will be wide open as the moisture soars and all of a sudden there will be a
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precipitation up and down the eastern seaboard friday and into saturday. futurecast showing these little patches of light snow and flurries moving across the area this evening, pretty much out of here by 10:00 or 11:00 and then the rest of the night with temperatures in the 20s, obviously anything out there this liquid will become part of the pavement and then tomorrow a really nice day with lots of sunshine and temperatures getting up into the 40s and then the problems begin to occur on friday morning when precipitation is likely to move in from the south and west and by the time we get into the afternoon and evening, we will have a variety of forms out there and you take this literally and this says everything goes over to plain rain by 5:00. i'm not convinced yet that that is going to happen. we continue to have freezing rain, maybe even sleet across parts of the triangle area all day long and then as colder air comes back in later that night, there's a chance that we will turn back the snow although the aamounts look like they are going to be -- the amounts look like they are going to be light.
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inches of snow about 7:00 saturday morning. increases quickly as you head up towards the north and west and up into virginia they will be measuring the snow in feet up there. so for tonight, period of light snow and flurries this evening, ending late this evening, clearing overnight and tomorrow partly sunny, really nice, a high of 45. and then snow arriving friday morning, probably some rain or sleet to the south and east of us but snow here in the triangle turning over to sleet, freezing rain and then eventually perhaps just plain rain before going back to snow late friday night and saturday and if we could put the roxbor camera up there, i believe that we could make out those flakes that are falling there now. >> oh, yeah. >> and so maybe that will look like boone in an hour. >> yeah. who knows. >> not quite that much but maybe it will -- >> sooner or later it's going to get here. >> thank you.
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enjoy a good jigsaw puzzle. >> look, i'm 90. i don't have time to be frustrated. >> next how this woman came to be known as the puzzle lady and how for her even the most intensely complicated puzzles are a breeze to solve. and coming up at 6:00, we continue to track the weather conditions across the viewing area as we move into the evening hours. bryan mims will join us with a live look at how the d.o.t. is gearing up for the next storm on friday, even as they roclear. and you k leing weary ca at a you e wh ur side has to
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now. still looking -- it's kind of hard to tell there. viewers like you are starting to tell us they are a few small flakes in the area. i'm sure we'll get more report as we go along. under a winter weather watch as we wait for that storm to arrive. thanks for joining us. >> david and debra have the night off. they didn't wait before closing for the tonight. a number of cancellations here.
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