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  • 8 months ago
If you are in the forecast areas, AccuWeather's Anna Azallion warns now is the time to prepare.
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00:00Get ready for at least a
00:03freezing rain to lead to
00:05and travel chaos for days
00:08people are going to be imp
00:10storm friday through monday
00:13to North Carolina and then
00:15even through Maine. Things
00:18Texas and Oklahoma and you
00:22to your evening commute i
00:23Oklahoma City over into Ar
00:27Dallas get ready for free
00:29the prime zone for widespread
00:32and other impacts from th
00:34north in places like Wichita
00:37it's more going to be snow.
00:39to spread east into the s
00:42you're still going to be s
00:43like Oklahoma and Texas for
00:46through the weekend. And t
00:48freezing rain is going to
00:52up into Tennessee, Atlanta
00:54hit hard by this and then
00:56into the Carolinas. The nor
00:59of this map is showing you
01:01where you're most likely to
01:03have sleet. The severe area,
01:05yeah, it's most likely going
01:07to be freezing rain as things
01:09spread east into the weekend,
01:11we start to see impacts into
01:13the mid-Atlantic and even the
01:15northeast. Now we're going to
01:16get more detailed with the
01:17forecast as we get a little bit
01:19closer here. But anybody
01:20highlighted in purple, get ready
01:22to find light for snow and in
01:23Columbia, South Carolina, up
01:25through Richmond, Virginia,
01:26somewhere like D. C, Philadelphia,
01:27New York, we have our eye on
01:29you for snow. In addition to
01:31widespread power outages,
01:32expect roads, especially in
01:34the south to be impassable
01:35for days, looking at the areas
01:38that got freezing rain,
01:39especially a lot of flight
01:40cancellations Saturday and
01:42Sunday, we are forecasting
01:43thousands of cancellations,
01:45and then expect other delays as
01:47as well and because cold air sticks with us, it's going to take a while to fully clean up and recover from all of this.

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