00:00Tony, we're just watching that ice.
00:03Yeah, we are paying very close attention as to when that is going to come through.
00:08I want to take a moment here, okay, folks?
00:10We're in Dallas, Texas, on the tail end of what would be a Friday rush hour.
00:14You see all that behind me?
00:16That is a whole lot of very little in terms of cars on the road.
00:20So folks taking heed of this here in the Dallas Metroplex.
00:23That back there, the bridge you see and the traffic moving in the foreground,
00:26out of State Route 121, that's the road that comes in on the north side of DFW Airport
00:31and works its way on off to the north.
00:33So typically we are seeing a lot more traffic than this,
00:36maybe not bumper to bumper at this time of day,
00:38but certainly more than what we have on the roads behind me.
00:42So that is some very, very good news that folks have heeded these concerns
00:45and these warnings and have put themselves in a place
00:48that isn't going to be on elevated surfaces like that
00:51because as soon as that freezing line works its way in,
00:54those areas are going to be the first to start to experience the problems
00:57and then we'll start to see surface streets like what we see behind me
01:00become issues later on tonight as well.
01:03Right now we are in a lighter precipitation than we saw for the last couple hours.
01:08We've been in a pretty steady, consistent rain.
01:10That has made probably the worst of the travel for us throughout the day today.
01:15But again, the good news with that is we haven't seen the onset of the frozen precipitation yet,
01:20but that is likely going to probably occur within the next couple of hours,
01:23particularly now as we're getting into the nighttime hours.
01:26Sun has gone away.
01:27Heating in the day has gone away.
01:28So we just naturally start to cool.
01:30We'll lose the rest of those degrees to get down into the freezing
01:32and then we start to see that transition.
01:35Freezing rain, very, very bad thing.
01:38Hopefully if we're going to get to the lesser of two evils,
01:40it's going to be in the form of the sleet
01:43that will be at least a little bit more advantageous
01:46if people are out and about, that at least gives some semblance of traction
01:49versus freezing rain, which is just going to make an ice rink
01:52out of all the roads and surfaces.
01:54And again, you mentioned the power outages.
01:56The freezing rain is going to have a bigger issue with that
01:58because that is what collects and sticks to the power lines
02:01as opposed to sleet, which will just bounce right off.
02:03So hopefully anything that we do get in the terms of frozen
02:07is going to be of that variety.
02:09But as you mentioned, the cold, that's going to linger well past
02:12when the precip is going to seize.
02:13So we're probably going to see multiple rounds tonight
02:15with the freezing rain and sleet, maybe some snow as we get into Sunday,
02:18and then the cold is going to hang on for several days after that,
02:21even after the precip ends here in the Dallas area.
02:24All right, good stuff there, Tony.
02:25We appreciate that report, and it's going to change real quickly.
02:28We've been looking at some of these temps.
02:29The west side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro dropping into the 30s.
02:33Inching closer.
02:34We'll be hearing from Tony again tomorrow.
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