Thursday . . .

Sorry for the late post today everybody. Been dealing with some rare wintry weather in the deep south here. Right now we have a freezing rain advisory for our parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain with winter storm warnings just out of the viewing area to the west. Crazy stuff. Always a borderline situation in the deep south as you know for winter weather. That freezing line has been bouncing around a little bit this morning. New Orleans metro will see all rain but we could see a little freezing rain north, and then of course bigger ice problems both farther north and farther west through tomorrow morning. Here is the latest winter radar . . .

You can see quite a bit of frozen precip. Of course all of this associated with a huge upper level system currently diving into the western part of Texas right now. As it does so it will develop either a surface low in the gulf or an inverted sfc trough. This feature will continue to lift north into southern Georgia and eventually north of there over the next couple of days. Look for moisture to spread into most of western North Carolina by tonight and then through much of your Friday.

Now most of this activity will fall as rain. However at the beginning of the event tonight into early tomorrow morning we could see a wintry mix, especially in some of the higher elevations and colder spots. While no major accumulations should occur, be careful tonight for some slick spots if you are traveling around, especially on elevated surfaces. Otherwise mostly rain for your Friday before things clear out the rest of the weekend.

Sorry this was a bit less in-depth that usual. Hope everybody has a great day!