Rain will taper off and skies will start to clear late Tuesday afternoon.
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Tuesday begins with light rain and possible high elevation wintry mix, clearing to sunshine.
CENTURY, Fla. (AP) – Suspected tornados touched down in Florida’s Panhandle and MS on Monday, destroying more than a dozen homes, damaging a school while it was in session and trapping an elderly woman and possibly other residents under rubble.
While Atlanta could see some snow flurries Monday, the bigger issue across the Southeast will be rain, CNN meteorologist Judson Jones said.
The Weather Channel has dubbed the storm Winter Storm Olympia. Yes, nearly “balmy” 50s!
Monday looked likely to be warmer – but only just – with lows between 10 to 20 degrees below average and subzero temperatures already recorded across New England in the early hours of the morning.
Today: Periods of rain. And, as usual, Mother Nature’s timing is less than ideal with this transition coinciding largely with the evening commute.
“In Central London there could be some sleet mixed in, but over the Chilterns and Berkshire Downs some wet snow is likely with 1 or 2cm on the grass”, he says. “Although any ice accumulation is unsafe, ice over.25” is considered extremely risky and a significant amount of ice. It’s part of a powerful area of low pressure that’s also creating high wind, sleet, rain and freezing rain.
Freezing rain has all the appearances of rain, right up until it hits the earth’s surface.
Snow is expected in the Wyoming Valley to kick off the new week – temperatures, however, are also expected to climb dramatically within the next few days. Not cool, little raindrop.
-Central Jersey: 5 p.m.to 9 p.m.
Freezing rain may accumulate up to one-tenth of an inch of ice before switching over to rain.
On Monday, the arc stretching from northern ME, southwest along the Canadian border to western NY, northwest Pennsylvania and northeast OH will see the most snow.
“All you have to do is cross into another county and see how blessed we are to have the ODOT crews that we have here in Meigs”, Commissioner Randy Smith said.
This week’s forecast temperatures are a stark contrast from the weekend’s historic subzero temperatures.
Here’s my bottom line …
1 to 2 inches of rain is possible. If you’re out driving, you may find untreated roads suddenly become very icy.
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He reminded drivers not to get complacent if they notice the air temperature rising above 32 degrees.
