00:00Some snow breaks out up into Montana, North and South Dakota, and into eastern Wyoming.
00:05There will be also, I want to mention, freezing fog tomorrow morning in Denver.
00:10In advance of this storm, look out for big delays tomorrow morning in Denver.
00:14Freezing fog, it won't be even measurable, but a trace of moisture there can slicken
00:20and glaze surfaces. You'll get down into the low 20s with some fog, not a good combination.
00:24But into Kansas, southern parts of Nebraska, snow and ice will begin to break out.
00:29And as we move deeper into the day on Sunday, you can see we have snow,
00:32ice, and some rain. Some thunderstorms will break out farther south near the Gulf Coast,
00:36Louisiana, Mississippi, East Texas. Some of those storms could be severe.
00:40But particularly into parts of the Ohio Valley here in this pink zone,
00:44the freezing rain will be a huge problem. After beginning of snow, you'll see a switch over to
00:50ice for some. Cincinnati, predominantly seeing snow with this storm. Sunday, your average high
00:54is 40. You're only around 27. And the snow sets in here into Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:59So in this area, we're looking at, again, widespread snow, 6 to 12 inches of snow
01:04into Cincinnati. Around 6 or so in Indianapolis, a little less north of Talbot to Fishers,
01:09more though south into Bloomington. In St. Louis, you're also on the edge of 3 to 6 to the south,
01:146 plus for the northern suburbs. Indianapolis, specifically, 3 to 6 inches of snow beginning 1
01:20p.m. Sunday and continuing through much of the day on Monday, tapering off in the afternoon.
01:24Look for this AccuWeather Wintercast feature. Look for those snowflake icons at the top of
01:28your screen on the app and on accuweather.com whenever you have snow or ice in your forecast.
01:34And 31 million of us are facing an ice threat Sunday into Monday. For the central U.S. year,
01:39you can see it's most prolific here into south-central Missouri, along Interstate 44 and
01:45Rolla, west to Springfield, up into Bolivar, Missouri, and into other areas, even west into
01:50Wichita. It's going to be a big storyline. But the most long-lasting power outages may be into
01:55Carbondale, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Paducah, Kentucky, into Evansville, and other
02:01areas like Lexington, Kentucky. It was 15 years ago this month that we had a tremendous ice storm
02:06for parts of the Southern Plains and the Ohio Valley. We don't want to repeat that. But Kansas
02:11City will see some snow, but also some ice. More than half of the storm will come down in snow
02:15form in Kansas City. But that will mitigate some of the ice potential, but not all of it. And you
02:21can see that we're dealing with a large area here with a quarter to a half inch of ice near and
02:26mainly just barely south of Interstate 64. So that puts a lot of us here in the Saturday afternoon
02:32through Sunday west of the dash line area facing some big-time ice. Bree's going to talk about the
02:37eastern part of this area. But power outage risk is very significant. And when it comes to
02:43thunderstorms, 23 million are facing the severe thunderstorm threat on Sunday, especially around
02:49Louisiana into Mississippi. Damaging winds are the main motivator behind that issue here. So we have
02:54a big day of live coverage planned through the day on Sunday because of all these threats here. And
02:59at that time, it's going to be moving into the mid-Atlantic states here, Bree. Yeah, and it's
03:02really going to build here when it comes to that ice threat, the snow threat as we head further
03:08east. And a lot of people are going to be impacted by the storm. I'm happy that you mentioned or I'm
03:13glad that you mentioned the power outage issue that we are concerned about here as we head into
03:19the weekend as we do have a lot of ice. And ice is not good for power lines. And in fact, we have
03:25about 31 million customers, people going to be impacted by this storm as we head into Sunday,
03:31Monday. So that's a lot of people that could be without power. We are tracking this storm,
03:37especially as it heads further east with it spreading that winter chill and that winter
03:43precipitation, ice, snow, rain, anywhere that you see shaded in that magenta. Further to the north,
03:48we have the snow. And further to the south, we still have that line of storms. We're going to
03:53focus on the ice for this one, though. Sunday into Monday, we are talking about significant or even
03:58severe ice impacts extending through Kentucky, down through West Virginia, Charleston, Roanoke
04:04included. And Fredericksburg could be impacted by some ice. In fact, in Roanoke, we could see
04:09upwards to a half of an inch of ice. And as that ice accumulates, that's when we can start to see
04:15those problems, not just on the roadways, but also on the power lines. That's going to be our high
04:20confidence probability starting late Sunday into Monday afternoon. Richmond, a similar boat, this
04:26goes through early Monday. We could see upwards to a quarter of an inch of ice. Let's play it out
04:31for you. As this freezing rain really gets going, you can see that warm nose making its way on
04:37through, changing that precipitation over quickly to that freezing rain. Really a lot there in
04:42Lexington. That goes across southern Indiana, the Ohio Valley, eventually spreading right towards
04:48the mid-Atlantic, even off towards the coast. You'll see some of those impacts here. Fredericksburg
04:54into the Baltimore, Washington, D.C. area, you'll see more in the way of snow. But further to the
05:00south, that's where we have that rain. So really being thrown everything with this storm. And we
05:07are anticipating, of course, some of those bigger impacts, especially even as we head into early
05:12Monday, as we head closer towards that I-95 corridor. It's not looking pretty even as we
05:18head into Monday morning for that commute.
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