Storms that soaked the South on Thursday will sweep into the Northeast on Friday, bringing a mix of wintry weather, including potentially dangerous ice accumulation.
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00:00The precipitation type it is going to change as this moves into the northeast. Some of that colder
00:05air coming into play here because we are expecting freezing rain and we are expecting snow of course
00:12to be expected with that winter weather advisory in place across parts of New York there. Here's
00:17the entire area that's going to be impacted and give you kind of an outline of what types of
00:20precipitation to expect for what part of the eastern half of the country. But let's break
00:26this down even further on future radar here as we go into tomorrow morning around the time
00:31of your morning commute we're seeing that rain but we are also seeing some of the pink mixed in
00:35at the front edge here. Pink means freezing rain not a lot of it quite yet but as we go
00:41throughout the day we start to see more of that pink and some blue some snow mixing in as well
00:46here as we continue to play this out and go into Saturday morning most of us are really done with
00:51this storm it's just the eastern half of New England that's left with some of the snow and
00:55some of the freezing rain there as well and then throughout the day Saturday this is gone the
01:00clouds are gone a mile or day but then you can already see the next system starting to move in
01:05that'll bring impacts for Sunday. Let's talk about this current storm though a little bit more
01:10this is the entire area that we are watching for that freezing rain threat good news not expecting
01:15a lot of accumulation of this ice but as we know even a trace of freezing rain that can create slick
01:22spots on the roads in some dangerous situations and several highways are included here as well as
01:26of course local roads where we are going to see impacts as well and remember this can have some
01:32impacts into your Friday morning commute. Now Jeff taking a look at airport conditions right now not
01:38seeing a lot of issues. Yeah the weather is cooperating for most into the major airports we
01:43have some rain obviously some road closures continuing into parts of western Kentucky tied
01:46to the flash flooding but into Florida for the snowbirds in and out of the sunshine state no
01:51current delays down here that's good news looking ahead to tomorrow some areas will see some wind
01:56very strong winds gusting over 40 miles per hour in Casper minor delays there tied to that in Omaha
02:01windy day for you Chicago we got soaking rain in the morning lingering showers in the afternoon
02:05Detroit rain in the morning changing to snow we could see up to an inch in the afternoon and
02:09evening look out for major delays there Indianapolis rain in the morning breezy in the afternoon for
02:14you so we'll be looking out also for some wind into Dallas rain in Atlanta rain in Seattle
02:20north central U.S. will have some issues here associated with wind and some showers to the
02:24southeast