gabrielle: all those cars, scrambling to get home and have a nice, warm home to go to, because john cessarich joins us now, and john, it will be cold. john: dangerously cold as we go overnight. for the next several days. weekend, we will get another surge of arctic air. the weekend will set the stage for a potential winter storm monday. or about that later on. right now, flurries. a couple brief light snow upstate. anderson, through do west, making their way into laurens and newberry. we have had snow showers back into north georgia. temperatures very cold. it has been snowing off and on with flurries in atlanta. do not expect accumulations. at least not in upstate and northern georgia.

carol: chief meteorologist john cessarich. john: it will be a slower process as far as diminishing the wind in the mountains, and then the wind will be there. the showers are already starting to change over into some snow showers, where they will be under a winter weather advisory. get the the line of thunderstorms that came through, and we warmed up briefly. we were just stable enough with that wedge of cool air last night into this morning, and by the time the thunderstorms moved up, they were off to our east, thing it is, and that is where they are -- thank goodness, and that is where they are. 43 mile-per-hour wind gusts, and 43 mile-per-hour wind gusts this afternoon at the asheville regional airport. the high wind warning will continue, and then the wind running continues. we can see tests as high as 35 to 40 miles per hour, especially in the elevation -- we can see gusts as high as 35 to 40 miles per hour. michael: it was dangerous today. carol: and we have the video to prove it. mike mccormick. mike: that is the roof, a

counties, as well as michael: first, we hear from the weather team right here, meteorologists john cessarich and chris justus. gentlemen, this is a matter of a few degrees. john: absolutely, michael and carol. around the freezing mark. we have had temperatures in the 20's holding steady, no the said -- now the sun is going down. we had radiation going through the clouds which warmed up the grounds. the war -- the roads will ice up . look at what is coming. chris: we are trapped in the 20's. look at all this moisture. the race is on to get above 32 degrees. if we don't, we are in store for a lot of ice. john: this will be close. in the north georgia mountains, little bit of pink with the green. the warm air is going up and over the dome of cold air in the upstate. in the mountains, it is warming up faster than in the upstate. through travelers rest into inman, all the way up to caesars see the worst of the weather this evening. been pummeled over the past few hours with heavy rainfall. look at this dome. line. it has not lodged. down. john: temperatures going down a few degrees. that is expec

michael: john cessarich, when does the mess that here? -- get here. john: the threat for flash flooding will be overnight tonight and also during the day right now, we are stable with a northeasterly wind. we have a stable environment, cool temperatures with off and on showers and even a few patches of drizzle and fog. also, overnight tonight through tomorrow, flash flood watch for basically the entire viewing area. lots of us have seen a couple inches of rain especially in the mountains over the last few days. the ground is saturated. there is no place for the water to go. the rivers and streams running very high. expect an additional 2-4 plus inches of rain across the area. from greenville through the midlands to the coast, a risk of severe weather as we go through the day tomorrow. i think northeastern georgia, you could see the severe weather late tonight, early tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning, it spreads rapidly across the upstate. the best chance will be south of i-85 with the storm system. this evening, everything is quiet. if you heavy showe

gabrielle quat and we hope you have somewhere warm to be tonight, and chief meteorologist john cessarich joins us. john: we barely warmed up into the upper 30's in the upstate and only in the mid 20's in the mountains, and, in fact, 15 degrees now in boone. 26 in asheville and franklin. just above the freezing mark in toccoa, mainly mid areas across the upstate except 35 degrees in abbeville. the wind makes it feel much colder. as we go through this evening, look at these wind chills, single digits to teens in the mountains, and then we are talking 20's outside of the but the wind is going to die down considerably, i think, as we go through the night tonight. the wind will stay in the mountains, and the wind chill advisory runs until 10:00 tomorrow morning with wind chill's probably in the single digits or below zero, same story for the wind chill advisory for the north georgia mountains tomorrow morning, maybe as low as minus five. gabrielle: with republicans, one question has been which has the best chance of beating the democratic nominee, and some say marco rubio is the one, but what

john cessarich joins us in the studio. john, you were talking about sprinkles? john: you can see it on the live super doppler. a couple sprinkles in the upstate, a couple light rain showers with the band right here that developed, a burst of moderate rain in laurens and clinton for about an hour. but the rain is beginning to change to snow in the mountains of north carolina and north georgia as expected. as the sun goes down and we get colder, expect snow to really start to fly across the mountains. this is our winter weather advisory from now until 7:00 tomorrow evening for buncombe county and all the way down in through southern haywood county, over into macon county and elderly and through clay county carolina. other than places that are not under the advisory, a winter storm warning overnight tonight until tomorrow morning. i would not be surprised that counties that border tennessee, this may be reissued for tomorrow and tomorrow night. they may extended. headed into the northeastern part of the country, getting blasted by snowstorms. another big nor'easter

john cessarich is talking about a call tonight i had. john: some of these temperatures, already cooling down. that was a beautiful picture looking over lake hartwell at sunset. already at the freezing mark in boone. 30's through most of the mountainous areas. mid 40's across most of the a few high thing cirrus clouds coming from thee west. in boone. 36 degrees and asheville. as it gets cold now, just wait. chris is just next door. chris, we are looking at the models. it is going to change in a big way next week. chris: we have been watching the models closely. that is the key -- when does the cold air arrived? even colder air arrives next week. this weekend will be cool, but next week will be frigid. some of the coldest air of the season thus far. this just in, new model information in. sunday afternoon we will see rain across the coast. some models have been hinting this could mix with wet snowflakes for wilmington and myrtle beach. all the moisture stays well east of here. look what happens as we go throughout the night sunday into mond

gabrielle: wyff news 4's chief meteorologist john cessarich is in our studio right now tracking the latest. john: the damage on top of paris mountain. high winds gusting at 50-60 miles per hour. in the major cities, we had winds gusting from 40-46 miles per hour. we still high gusts at 35 miles per hour across the area. we still have wins gusting to around 35 miles per hour. that will diminish as we go upstate. still winds will gust from time to time in the mountains. rain in the valleys. snow in the higher elevations. this is even d dn into raven county and northeastern georgia. the weather advisory continues into tomorrow morning. plus inches of snow. but even asheville, you could end up with a dusting to a c ouple of inches of snow by tomorrow morning. we have had ice, we have had snow. it has been a bizarre week. chris: sunshine and the weekend is a must here. look for clear skies and warming conditions. a little bit of a cool day on saturday. by sunday, we are in the mid-60's. the mountains could use a warm-up. we are going to get it after a chilly friday. we will be in the upper 40's

john cessarich joins me again. john, this is what it looks like right now. the rain could help wash everything away, or it could be a slushy mess. john: overall, it is similar to the storm system we had a couple weeks ago, except this will end as rain across most of the area. it could be moderate to heavy

chief meteorologist john cessarich joins us now from the weather center. good boating weather tomorrow? -- good voting weather tomorrow? john: it looks good except for a few stray showers. a better chance for rain unfortunately on sunday. i will explain that in just a second. outside, if you have any plans to go out this evening, no problem. going down to 43 in boone. 50 in asheville. upper 50's for the most part, except for 60 in the very.very pleasant outside . --60 in new very. warm through the weekend. future plus whenever a better computer models. ;, showers coming in with him slow-moving front. -- 7:00, showers coming in with a slow-moving front. showers will be confined to the mountains. as the front gets closer and stalls out in the mountains, a better chance of sunday maybe even in the form of thundershowers as we warm up into the 60's. that would be sunday afternoon. chris, we are talking about mild weather this weekend. oncethe front settles to the south , northeast wind kicks in. and it gets colder. chris: ah, a cold one. here we go, monday is a

still moving, and our chief urologist john cessarich -- chief meteorologist john cessarich is in. john: it will be a slow process, and the wind will pick up again with some strong, gusty winds. we are very fortunate in that we have the bands of showers move across the area, but we were just stable enough with that wedge overnight last night to keep most of the severe weather to our south and to our east and to our west as we went through. now, rain showers changing over to snow showers in the southwestern mountains.

carol: and meteorologist john cessarich, tracking it all. michael: john, some parts of our area already seeing some snow? john: absolutely. in the mountains, that is where it is going to stay. moved through the upstate -- a stray flurry in the upstate, but it will be mostly confined to the mountains. in the pink shaded area is a winter storm warning, continuing in mainly the north carolina counties that border tennessee. higher elevations will see the most snow. winter weather advisory for buncombe county into the southwestern mountains of north carolina amber the north georgia mountains. winter weather advisory's continue. tomorrow night, the big piece of arctic air comes in. wind chill advisory starts tomorrow night in the north georgia mountains, 10 to-15 expected. dangerous wind chills across the area starting tomorrow night for wednesday. even into thursday morning. as far as snow, maybe a flurry or two expected north of i-85. get to tennessee and in the northern mountains. a trace to a couple inches of snow, the two inches closer to thi

chief meteorologist john cessarich joins me again. models here. john: it's not going to be a major storm system. off and on flurries and snow mountains. and especially south of -- south of this line, it's only going to be a few range hours. -- a few rain showers, maybe mixed with a few snowflakes. chris: it did not amount to much. johnz: a trace, some places and the upstate might not see anything at all. 1-3 inches of snow in the methods. more about the storm system at 6:00. michael: did you notice? three years of construction the i-85 385 gateway project is now officially underway. wyff news 4's corey davis is live and local near the harley davidson dealership on chrome drive in greenville. corey, where are things starting first? corey: they will get started right here. a lot of the construction materials are already out along the harley davidson aerial along i-85. some lanes will also be closed at night on the interstate. right now the plan is to clear out these trees and move chrome drive further away from the interstate. transportation official

john cessarich i iin the studio tracking the latest. is it going to be a nice evening? john: absolutely. if you are heading out anywhere, it will be in good shape. increasing clouds from the northwest. this weekend will get interesting. i will talk about more interest the second. 45 in boone in the chilly spot. but most people reading the 60's. 64 in abbeville. 61 in dakoa. not too bad. future plus cold front slowly losing from the northwest. a few showers possible in the not as cold as in recent nights. more clouds in the upstate, but a slight chance of showers at six clark on saturday. as the front gets closer on the tennessee-north carolina line, on sunday, may be a batch of heavy showers in the afternoon, possibly thundershowers. they march off to the east. it will at least be mild for the weekend. but chris, after that, it gets really ugly. chris: we have been watching that. it looks like it will be wintry for most of us. we have been watching this low back towards the south. as we head into monday, it will be a cool rain. that turns into a downright chilly rain int

wyff news 4's chief meteorologist john cessarich is on the road tonight, and metorologist chris justutu is in the weather center. gabrielle: john has a tough assignment. he is at the girl scouts office in spartanburg for the launch of cookies. he is shaking his head, because he wants cookies. john: i'll -- i told the producer, gabrielle and nigel, rerely, i have to go see the girl scouts and see those delicious cookies. give me a different assignment. yeah, right. that is why i am here. we will talk cookies later. first, the weather. nice in spartanburg through the upstate, seasonably cool plenty of sunshine. a few high, thin clouds streaming and, but don't expect to see, you could see plenty of the temperature has warmed into the mid 50's, where we should be. low 50's in the mountains, pretty close to where it should be. except for the northern mountains. boone, pretty chilly in the low 40's. early next week, the jet stream will take a dive into the deep south. there is a low that will track off, now the key is, where does the logo? the track is critical on what we end up getting. snow

robertson, embryo komorowski, and the weather with chief meteorologist john cessarich. this is wyff news 4 at 5:00 in high definition. gabrielle: take a look at these pictures of severe weather causing major damage in the charlotte area. these are from yesterday. duke energy reported that close to 5,000 people were without power in mecklenburg county. trees were uprooted, and some homes suffered serious damage. nigel: in western north carolina, a live look through our asheville skycam. look at that sunset. on this thursday in february, a beautiful day outside. gabrielle: so nice to see sunshine. john cessarich joins us from the studio. how is the rest of the week shaping up? john: seasonably chilly. if you are on the couch inside, nice and warm and looking at a live shot from asheville, you are going, wow, that is lots of sunshine. if you are outside, 41 degrees with a strong wind, it feels like 32 with the windchill. cold temperatures in the mountains. different story outside the mountains. lighter winds and temperatures warming up into the upper 50's to around 60, 60

[laughter] chief meteorologist john cessarich join uss us now. with weakened planes? john: it will be seasonally cool but plenty of sunshine. the clouds in the mountains will break up, and you will see plenty of sunshine. of sunshine , but a nice warming trend by sunday afternoon. i will show you those numbers a bit later on. right now we have cold temperatures the mountain. the wind making it feel pretty cold. the closer you get to the with a wind chill of 16 degrees. 39 degrees in asheville. 41 in hendersonville and franklin. seasonably cool temperatures in the upstate. we should normally be about 59 degrees for a high temperature this time of year. instead we are only 53 in greenville. only 48 spartanburg. way below average temperatures. than looking at a nice the world a president has to grapple with. sometimes you can't even imagine. that's the job. ...securing a massive reduction in nuclear weapons... ...standing up against the abuse of women... ...protecting social security... ...expanding benefits for the national guard... ...and winning health care for 8 mill

carol: wyff news 4's chief meteorologist, john cessarich, is in our studio right now, tracking the latest. looks pretty good. john: absolutely gorgeous outside. what a way to start the week. warmed up nicely into the 70's. no records, the record is 79 in the upstate. we warmed into the mid-to-upper 60's in the mountains, also not a record. the records are the 70's. still, way above average for this time of year. definitely a touch of spring in the air. 56 in boone, 77 in elberton. overnight, a beautiful evening outside. haddad's -- headed towards tomorrow morning, clouds on the increase. a cold front pushes through and changes the weather pattern to scattered showers. through the southwestern mountains, bryson city, andrews, charity, northwestern georgia. these could move across tuesday night. now back to you. carol: turning to commitment 2016 news now. super tuesday, just a day away. it is tomorrow. all eyes on whether donald trump and hillary clinton will keep their lead. congressman trey gowdy was in the upstate this morning. he endorsed republican senator and presidential candidate ma

this is the system that john cessarich says we need to be watching as well. john joins us in the studio. john: we will have to watch it during the day tomorrow especially, and probably especially in the morning. new orleans remains under a tornado watch. there are warnings around louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. we are very stable. we have the warm front to the southwest, so we have a northeasterly breeze. we are just looking at rain showers across the area.

with nigel robertson, gabrielle komorowski, meteorologist john cessarich. this is wyff news 4 at 5:00 in high definition. nigel: more commitment 2016 coverage now, and more from that one-on-one with current gop frontrunner donald trump. carol: wyff news 4's patrick hussion spent a lot of time with the real estate mogul this afternoon, and he's here now. patrick? patrick: before leaving today, trump told us to be on the lookout for a new poll. and sure enough, that cnn-orc poll has trump with a 16 point lead over ted cruz. we talked about that and much more today. in his first stop at the popular tommy's ham house, donald trump made a quick stop before heading over here, where we talked about his campaign heading into the south carolina primary on saturday. >> look. it's politics. i understand. and i've only been a politician since june 16. i'm almost embarrassed to say i'm a politician. but i guess that's what i am. patrick: has the transformation taken place? >> it's a big patrick: behind him in the south carolina polls is senator ted cruz, and on monday,

john cessarich and chris justus are in our studio, tracking the latest. john: very heavy, freezing drizzle across the area.

let's head over to john cessarich, joining us in the studio. what's going on? john: that is why i do what i do. you are going, what is that? it is a mix of rain and snow falling in the asheville area. temperatures mainly above the freezing mark. 42 in asheville, 44 in hendersonville. for the next few hours, a mix of wet snow and rain back-and-forth with pieces of impulses coming in quickly from the west. once a get colder later tonight, all snow showers. this will continue for most of the week. above freezing in the upstate, a couple sprinkles. that is all we will expect outside the mountains, a couple sprinkles, light showers moved through laurens earlier. higher elevations looking at lower elevations, rain and snow mix. advisories only for the mountains. winter weather advisory tonight all the way until 7:00 in the morning tomorrow. this is buncombe county, transylvania county, all the way over to the tennessee line. when that expires, we have a winter storm warning that goes from now until tomorrow morning. that is for the counties that border tennessee. that

michael: meteorologist john cessarich. john: the clouds moving across the line from tennessee and into north carolina and also the north georgia mountains with some clouds, and we might squeeze out a snowflake or two. otherwise, the clouds are keeping the temperature from franklin, a pair of 39 in spartanburg and greenville, 41 in anderson. if your wake-up weather looks like this. drive. -- dry. 26, the overnight low, and the sunrise in the mountains at 7 :12. we will talk about the weekend, coming up. carol? carol: there was a shooting at a bowling alley just after 9:00 at the tri-city bowling alley. parking lot, and you can download the wyff 4 app for the latest on this developing story. michael: and two south carolina police officer's will not be of a drug suspect. the two officers from the cayce attempting to arrest the suspect dash cam video shows the man resisting arrest, and he eventually pulled out a hand and shoots one of the officers. both officers returned fire, killing the suspect. an internal investigation has

michael: a big change on monday, and meteorologist john cessarich is tracking our weather. john: i would say so. looking pretty good, as you can see. temperatures in the 30's and 40's, but in the mountains with that breeze, it felt a lot seasonally cold. this is back through the northeast. so in the mountains, not too bad. it is also drive. we might squeeze out a flurry, especially at elevations closer to the tennessee line, but that is about it area it is still 64 in elberton, 54 in spartanburg. also mid 50's in clemson. and a nice warm-up just inside of the weekend. what will it stay dry? we will have an answer for you, coming up. >> to live the right way. carol: for the past five days, this man has been living in his church. she spent a lifetime making a difference for people. winning healthcare for 8 million children. benefits for families of reservists and the national guard. for human rights and women's rights. hillary clinton. she'll raise the minimum wage. take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs. and give everyone the opportunity to go to c

chief meteorologist john cessarich joins us. john: just a little bit. it is going to get better. we will have more coming up a little bit later on. cooler in the mountains, as you can see, especially with the breeze making it colder out of the north. it is in the 30's in the northern mountains. and seasonably cool. it warmed up, around 60 degrees in greenwood. 66 in elberton. 58 in athens. dry conditions across the area, the mountains of north carolina. also along the tennessee line. and then a look into the weekend of the bit later on. gabrielle: ok, john. thank you very much. there are more places to park in downtown greenville. city officials unveiled the west end park and ride and probably stop today in the city's west and next to fluor field. >> it is a first for greenville. this is a first. we do not have another parking lot where you can park and ride the trolley. gabrielle: the daily rate is one dollar per hour up to a maximum parking will be six dollars. nigel: coming up, apple and the federal government fighting over the right to access your smartphone data. hear from b

much calmer in comparison, and it looks fine for now, the rain is gonnigel: chief meteorologist john cessarich is here now. john, some severe weather moving in in parts of south carolina. john: absolutely, nigel and gabriellby the way, this was the same storm system that has moved through our ar in mississippi. this produced blizzards conditions. a massive storm system. almost a solid line of very heavy thunderstorms and a couple of severe thunderstorms. for the most part, it is not severe. this made it's way across the area late last night through this morning. what the most part, and we saw in the mountains, up to three inches, which caused some flooding problems, even in the foothills, and the flash flood warnings have expired, but the flood warnings and flood advisory still continue in these areas as we go through the night tonight.even though the rain has stopped, we still have run off flooding concerns. gusts of 47 miles per hour. making its way in and intensify, some funnel clouds. we also had wind gusts around 50 miles per hour close, and then that funnel cloud right along interstate 2

let's check in now with chief meteorologist john cessarich. john: i expected flurries in the little bit of sleep. we got a little more than flurries. we got anywhere from a trace to a dusting of snow. now the arctic air will start to sweep across. as it does it will produce snow showers. forecast is one to four inches of snow. strong winds gusting over 30 miles per hour. dangerous wind-chill tonight until noon tomorrow. five to -15 degrees. that cold arctic air settles in across our area and will sit there and set the stage for storm system. how strong? if it takes a southern trek wind up with snow, if it takes the northern trackway and up with a little bit of frozen precipitation. the middle track as ice. that's we are thinking right now. freezing rain and sleet. >> that's the concern of these eventually, we do expect the rain to move in. if you are looking at snow and ice, we are watching the weather models very closely. we think it's going to be in icy mix. there's a 30% chance it will just be regular rain. and a 10% chance it will be all sn

gabrielle: yes, those temperatures have gone away, and john cessarich joins us now. john: it is kind of cool outside, which is not bad. right now, in the 30's in the mountains of north carolina, in the 40's all of the way back to the north georgia mountains. dry conditions. 30 right now in boone. 60 currently in newbury. but overall, not bad. later on. back to you. gabrielle: a pastor is sending out a plea for help for the homeless. mandy: here at new deliverance, he says either half of his congregation is either homeless or cannot afford to heat their home. two of the parishioners are currently staying at the church on king street because they have nowhere else to go. pastor tracy gantt says there is not a place that is close by. he is hoping to get officials involved, and he and his wife went before the easily city council -- the easley city >> come in and get out of the cold, you know? feel like you are somebody again. mandy: gantt says he knows very well what it is like not to have a home. he is a formemehang member who used to have a drug habit, and he says he go

wyff news 4 chief meteorologist john cessarich joins us now. and john, you've been tracking a storm that's on the way? john: absolutely. it is getting colder. arctic air has settled in across the area this weekend. that sets the stage, once the precipitation arrives. ahead of the main storm system, still in texas, headed towards arkansas. look at this snow in cincinnati, louisville, all the way up to the northern part of north carolina. we have had a few flurries north and west of asheville. it continues to snow in boone, temperatures in the teens there. precipitation in the foothills is not reaching the ground. the air is dry and it is evaporating. lighter precipitation across the area. this pink shaded area is a freezing rain advisory which starts at midnight tonight along the i-85 corridor into northeastern georgia. afternoon. that may be extended if the coco air hangs around later. in the purple, a winter weather advisory, and that means freezing rain plus sleet and snow before it goes over to freezing rain. that includes the central and sou

john cessarich joins me again. john, this is what it looks like right now. the rain could help wash everything away, or it could be a slushy mess. john: overall, it is similar to the storm system we had a couple weeks ago, except this will end as rain across most of the area. it could be moderate to heavy freezing rain and snow we had early. chris: the mountains could see some good snow. that is mixed with sleet. everybody should change over to rain. john: the mountains, 1-4 inches of snow. not a major system. back to you, carol and michael. carol: mauldin police have made another arrest in a deadly shootout in a bojangles parking lot last month. officers say a 16-year-old girl stands accused of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery. police say the girl had an active role in planning the robbery that left 19-year-old savon allen shot dead. officers have already charged trevonte watts, william newton. and a 15-year-old girl with murder. investigators say the encounter was drug-related. michael: commitment 2016 for you now with the primary , just nine day

nigel: wyff news 4's chief meteorologist john cessarich is in our studio right now tracking john: ticket all of these wins. yesterday, we had winsds gusting around 46 miles per hour. today, around 39 miles per hour. we had sustained winds of 25 miles per hour. you can see the highest wind gusts in anderson. in the highest elevations, they are well over 40 miles per hour. snow showers in the county. even some of these snow showers could move into the western part of coney county. some pretty good snow showers moving through. this is up through barton county. i showed you those pictures earlier from the live shot. the temperatures continuing to come down. it is a very wet snow. the winter weather advisory continues through the night tonight. total snowfall acumen clay -- accumulations, probably 1-4 in ches. the heaviest the closer you get to the tennessee line. we will look at it again further ahead. nigel: tonight, people still without power. progress is being made. at its peak, 127,000 people were without power in the carolinas. gabrielle: now that number is down to 27,000. 3000 in south

there is the man with the answers, chief meteorologist john cessarich. john: i'm not sure i would have voted for this type of weather on election day. only a slight change in the shower. this is a 7:00 in the morning to 2:00 p.m. it warms up to 60 degrees. at 70 degrees. only a slight chance of a stray shower. more cloudiness than anything. at least it will be fairly mild. just a slight chance of a brief shower. on sunday, different story as a cold front gets closer to us. this cold front will move in at 7:00 in the morning. showers in parar of the mountains. watch what happens. we could have some heavy showers and thunderstorms at noon time on sunday. by sunday afternoon, showers started to make their way across the area. we will have to wait and see. the front settles to the south. a real mess as against next week. i will talk about that a little bit later on. michael: a somber day on capitol hill. the d.c. community said goodbye to supreme court justice antonin scalia. president obama and the first lady paid their respects to today at the high court. a

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chief meteorologist john cessarich has the answer. john: still unseasonably cold, as you can see. i will have that election day forecast in just a moment. temperatures already in the 20's in boone, cooling down into the 30's through the mountains. even entered northeastern -- northern georgia. 32 in asheville. 37 in greenville. 38 in anderson. 43 in spartanburg. the election day forecast -- no sunny skies and cold at 7:00 a.m., 30. warming up to 53 degrees. when the polls close at 7:00, clear skies and chili at 45 degrees. i will talk about sunday's weather coming up a bit later on. michael: to greenville county, where devotees are looking for a double murder suspect. accused in searching -- killing two people in a nightclub. he was released with an ankle monitoring device, but records indicates he cut off that ankle monitor sometime yesterday morning. williams as friends and family that live in the taylor's area and in oconee county and innocent county as well. if you see him, do not hesitate to call 911. carol: to the lowcountry now. a deputy is recovering after she was shot on

but first, let's go to chief meteorologist john cessarich. and john, when can we expect the storm to get here? john: probably overnight. as expected this evening, everything was pretty quiet. this arctic air on top of us is extremely dry. load points, which means dry air. -- low dew points, which means dry air. here comes the first round. in tennessee, northwest georgia, the precipitation moves in later tonight, it will be frozen. in the form of snow, sleet, and freezing rain. very light, nothing major. that is why the winter storm watch from the weather service has been downgraded a little bit to a freezing rain advisory overnight tonight or monday. that is along the i-85 corridor in the purple area, or actually the gray area, a winter weather advisory because it is rain mixed with sleet and snow to start with. fairly light expected in these areas. the heaviest precipitation will be in the wind -- in the winter storm warning in the northern mountains and foothills of north carolina, 3-6 inches of snow and sleet mixed, and freezing rain before

meteorologist john cessarich. here he is. john, this is no night to be out, unless you must. john: absolutely. in fact, the snow will start to taper off tomorrow morning. a couple flurries left over for the upstate, but as far as advisories and warnings, winter weather advisory for the mountains until 6:00 tomorrow morning. winter storm warning against them -- the western slopes in east tennessee. into the canton-rome area, scattered flurries in atlanta. winter weather advisory to a dusting for another inch possible the mountains, running until 10:00 tomorrow morning. talking about the dangerous cold, wind chill advisory overnight tonight all the way until 10:00 in the morning thursday for the north georgia mountains. chill advisory until noon tomorrow, and then it will be written -- reissued tomorrow and run through thursday morning. take a look at temperatures. most of the snow showers confined to the north carolina-tennessee line. your wake-up weather looks like this. talking wind chills of 15 to eight degrees, and below zero in stay warm. now back to you. >> we are going

chief meteorologist john cessarich says it was traveling at a speed of 50 miles per hour. carol: and we were lucky. that hung in as long as it could, and then by the time it broke up, most of the energy dynamic shift off to our east and then raced off to the east and produced that tornado northeast of raleigh. those cells are moving up towards new york city, and i will talk about that. it's just the pressure gradient between the storm system to our north and high pressure down in the gulf of mexico. 46 mile-per-hour wind gusts in spartanburg, also in anderson, 41 mile-per-hour. it is still very breezy out there, to say the least, and we will still see wind gusts, and then we are looking at snow showers moving across the area. a winter weather advisory's darts in these areas overnight tonight, and they could see up to one inch. here is what it looks like outside. the upper dead, still windy conditions and limited snow showers. winter does not went to go away anytime soon. that is for sure, and we will look ahead to the weekend later on. michael: and remember, when the bad w

we will have to watch this chief meteorologist john cessarich will join me tomorrow. we will piece this together for you. the good news is that we warm to 50 like tuesday. 60's by this time next week. michael: it is a nowcast, not really a forecast. chris: exactly. we have to watch those transcendent temperatures. michael: speaking of cold, how would you like to jump into a carpal? -- jump into lake hartwell? and that is what many people did for the charity "pennies for preemies." carol: the charity was started by t.l. hanna student grace cromer who is a triplet, and along with her two brothers, was born at just 27 weeks. they are now healthy teenagers, and grace's charity is helping support families with preemies and special needs. >> now wyff news 4 sports. >> drives it. no whistle. he banks it in at the buzzer! 63-62 win over 7th ranked vigrinia. the cavaliers winless at cameron indoor since 1995. south carolina sits at the top of the sec entering saturday, and can announce their arrival by knocking off one of the blue bloods in college basketball in kentucky. john

michael: chief meteorologist john cessarich, we are all about the weekend. john: i am always looking ahead to the weekend. it is thursday night. looking nice. a few clouds moved quickly across the sky from the northwest. for the most part, mainly clear tonight. temperature-wise, getting cooler, but seasonably chilly. 29 in boone, 36 in asheville. 39 in spartanburg and anderson, 44 in laurens. your wake-up weather looks like not bad. sunshine with little wind in the upstate, temperature right around freezing. mostly sunny and cold in the mountains. 28 degrees. some -- sunrise at 7:11. carol: to powdersville now. a chase involving greenville county deputies ended in a deadly wreck. it claimed the life of a man who just happened to be on the road at the same time. it all happened around 4:30 this morning. the anderson county chief deputy coroner says 62-year-old stephen burnett of easley died at the scene. here is a picture of the man deputies were chasing, 25-year-old dexter reeves. according to the coroner, reeves' car was turning onto highway 81 when it hit b

as far as who will be impacted, chief meteorologist john cessarich joins me again. john, it is like last time, i i-85 northbound. john: it is amazing how that ends up being the freezing likert if you live south of i you might get ice pellets or snowflakes -- the freezing line. if you live south of i-85, you snowflakes. we have a potential for freezing rain and sleet even the upstate, especially i-85 northbound. chris: think about where you live. taylor's, greer, those areas could see slippery roads on monday, but if the rain rushes in monday night, it could wash every thing away. john: i think it will. snow monday morning going over to freezing rain and sleet, and eventually all rain by monday night into tuesday morning. we will keep you up-to-date your back to you, nigel and gabrielle. nigel: thank you very much feared now to commitment 2016 coverage. marco rubio is in the upstate now. brielle: he is at the southside christian school auditorium in simpson bill. we want to give you a live look. let's take a listen. sen. rubio: i cannot tell you. i never want to be a

john cessarich joins us in t studio, tracking the latest. john, how does it look right now? john: rain moving into the southwestern part of iowa. a couple sprinkles around des moines. they will later this eit will be in good shape, because the heavy snow and blizzard conditions will occur late tonight and during the day tomorrow. they could see in des moines from 6-12 plus inches of snow. that will occur late tonight and during the day tomorrow. a good thing the caucuses were not later this evening or during the day tomorrow, because it most likely, even for people in iowa, they may have to cancel that. it will be awful tomorrow with heavy snow and blowing snoin iowa. in our area, a cold front will push through. that will bring us cooler temperatures as we get into tomorrow. today, absolutely gorgeous. i will show you the temperatures in a moment. the front will settle to the south. high pressure builds in from the northeast. we will have a northeasterly wind during the day tomorrow. areas of drizzle, fog, and light rain across the area. a few showers will march across the m

carol: chief meteorologist john cessarich joins us now. john, how does it look right now? john: carolyn by goal, we are talking rain showers. rain showers in the upstate, rain and snow moving through the mountains. no freezing rain. this is not the same type of storm system. winter weather advisory overnight until 6:00 a.m. on wednesday, 1-3 less inches of snow possible in these areas, most of the counties bordering tennessee. already 3-4 inches has fallen in higher elevations of avery county in northern mountains of north carolina. take a look. conceal the showers moving quickly across the areas. a fast-moving system. rain and snow mixed through the mountains of north carolina. that will come to an end later when he wake up, except -- expect a few leftover flurries tennessee line. low 32. in the upstate, lots of sunshine, temperature 37. carol: the icy weather was to blame for more than wrecks 200 across the upstate. highway patrol says, at least four of them were deadly. the crash happened on verdae boulevard in greenville just before 8:30 last night. the coroner says 17

chief meteorologist john cessarich in the studio. partly great for all of nige -- aren't we grateful for all of nigel's hard work? [applause] and the rest of the team. john: seasonally cool across the upstate.still pretty cool . 2939 in asheville. we have the wind out of the north-northwest, making it feel cool as we headed to the last weekend of february. early march. the mountains. a piece of energy in the atmosphere will come in quickly. it will not produce any precipitation. it might squeeze out flurries along the tennessee line. this is 8:00 in the morning. the clouds dissipate, so expect more sometime in the afternoon and mountains. even better on sunday. more about that a little bit later on. gabrielle: the berkeley county deputy with upstate ties was shot while investigating a suspicious vehicle in goose creek overnight. corporal kimber gist is in stable condition after surgery. she graduated from woodruff high school in 2009. officials say gist was a shot after investigating a suspicious vehicle behind a closed grocery store.

john cessarich is here with the latest. john: what a difference 24 hours makes. yesterday, we had all the ice and freezing rain. we ended up in greenville between a quarter of an inch or about a 10th of an inch of ice to a quarter of an inch of ice. through the foothills of north carolina from henderson county, rutherford county, the towel county, anywhere from a quarter to a half inch of ice. a nice storm in that area. -- an ice storm. rain moving into the western it is too warm for it to be snow, but it will mix with wet snow towards the tennessee line. we warmed up nicely. 60 in greenwood, 61 in abbeville. the rain will mix with and change to wet snow in the counties in north carolina that border tennessee. 1-3 plus inches of snow overnight until 6:00 tomorrow morning. the heaviest will be above 3500 feet close to the tennessee line. we warm up nicely. more about that later on. nigel: coming up, a busy day for drivers who may have found themselves sliding on slick roads. we will tell you what is happening the day after. >> leave it open and let these people st

carol: meteorologists john cessarich and chris justus are tracking our forecast. michael: let's check in with john first. john: we have had heavy thunderstorms rumble across the area. the cold front is kind of stalled out to our north as a low has developed along the front, slowing it down. that keep this -- keeps us in the warm sector. not expecting anything severe, but we had lightning and gusty winds and heavy rain, and street flooding associated with the thunderstorms as they rumble through the east-northeast. the main threat for severe weather is potentially, for us, will be during the day on wednesday. tomorrow morning, the front that pushes through tonight will stall out to our south. in texex, coming out of the four -- the four corners, that is the main system that will produce severe weather. we will have a northeasterly wind tomorrow. we will be wedged in. look what happens. when will the wedge breakdown? a line of heavy thunderstorms, one thing is a guarantee, we will see heavy thunderstorms move across our area, whether or not they are severe is another

john cessarich has the forecast for the coldest nights of our in 2016. this is one of the coldest of the season. john: and it will get even colder into the weekend. a larger area of arctic air pushing across the area. unbelievable. this week will be below average. besides the temperatures being below average, and the wind making it feel colder with wind chills, single digits in certain areas. look at the flurries and light snow showers in the southern upstate and parts of northeastern georgia. anderson to hartwell, abbeville, calvin falls, greenwood, flurries all the we have to pendleton earlier, through pickens county, oconee county, off and on flurries in the mountains, some of the snow has been heavy. look how cold it is. 18 in boone, 25 in abbeville, anderson, most of the upstate.

john cessarich is on the road in spartanburg and the girls scouts office for the launch of their delicious girl scout cookies, and john, they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of one of my personal favorites, the lemonade? hint, hint. john: next year will be their 100th anniversary. can you believe it? they started selling those cookies in 1970. a beautiful day to eat girl scout cookies. i have been munching on them already. so good. i will skip dinner tonight. we showed you our skycam shot in greenville. in spartanburg, sunny and beautiful. in spartanburg, in the mid 50's. mid 50's in greenville and anderson. upper 50's through abbeville and low 60's in elberton. a cool spot, northern mountains of north carolina around boone, coming up and the 40's. the temperatures are seasonably cool for this time of year. over the weekend, a warm up, then it gets unsettled through next week. more about that in detail a little later on. now back to you. nigel: the california kid is one of nascar's elder statesman. gabrielle: marc dopher has more on jimmie johnson and his drive to capture another piec

carol: john cessarich is all. what can we expect overnight? john: very cold, a cold wind out of the north-northwest. look at the clouds developing. i talked about this earlier. we have a storm system in the upper atmosphere that will swing in. there it is. with the clouds, we may squeeze out a brief rain or snow shower across the area. it will only be for the next 2-3 hours. the system will then move quickly east, headed to the coastal storm, which will move up the eastern seaboard. more about that later on. 35 in asheville, 30 one in boone, mid 40's in greenville, your wake up weather looks like this. if we do not get rain or snow in the next couple hours, clearing skies towards daybreak. sunshine but a cold reason the upstate. temperature 32. sunny but a cold wind out of the north, gusting up to 25 miles per hour, temperature 25 degrees, which means wind chills in the low teens. a look ahead at the weekend later on. now back to you. carol: in pilgrim -- in greenville county, a 17-year-old was run over after she fell off the foot of a car. it

chief meteorologist john cessarich is in the studio. we are looking to a nice evening. john: it looks fantastic. if you have any type of outdoor plans, no problem. it will stay nice and dry. very few clouds. crystal clear skies outside. but we had a cold front here. this has a lot of clouds with it it will just slowly inch its way closer to us. giving us a better chance of a couple of showers along the north carolina-tennessee line. that will be late tonight and into northwestern georgia. it will slowly inch its way through the mountains through the weekend. that we could see showers around the area, especially in the mountains saturday and sunday. the best chance of showers will be across the entire western carolinas and with george on sunday. the last couple of days it looks like the front was going to stall out and become a stationary to the north. only slight chance for a few showers in the mountains, but not the update. now it looks like it will fall further south. it will mess up some of your outdoor plans this weekend. the cold spot, 44 in boone. mid 40's in ashev

chief meteorologist john cessarich and i will keep an eye on that's tomorrow. 30% chance of snow late tomorrow. 90% chance of a wintry mix, eventually changing terrain by monday. we climb out of our wintry hole. 5050y tuesday. 60 by this time next week. michael: that is great. after 11 degrees in the nonsense. chris: that will be very nice. it snowed this week. i was at a few schools while it snowed. they had a blast with it. this looks like berea elementary school. the second graders had a blast asking about the snow. then i visited christchurch a piscopo. the sixth-graders had a great time asking about questions. a few folks want to go to college for meteorology there. michael: they will all know when >> now wyff news 4 sports. ricardo: south carolina vaulted to the top of the sec with wins over texas a&m and lsu in the past week. the gamecocks can now announce their arrival with a win over the blue bloods in the league. kentucky. a sellout crowd on hand in the cla and fireworks early on. less than 3 minutes in, john calipari receives two technicals and is ejected from the game. coa