Storm to bring snow, ice and rain to the Northeast this Friday

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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

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