Below-freezing temperatures and a wide range of precipitation are headed toward the Triad this weekend.
Combine cold air from the north, a cold front behind it and low pressure developing across our area, and you get a winter storm. National Weather Service Meteorologist Tom Green says the precipitation moving into the Piedmont on Saturday may begin as snow, but that might change.
"As things end up evolving Saturday evening and Saturday night, we're expecting that that will likely transition to a period of sleet and freezing rain, and that that will be the primary type of precipitation that we have for the triad Sunday into Sunday night," says Green.
That’s quite a shift from the forecast a few days ago that called for up to a foot of snow over the weekend.
Green says they’re now expecting warmer air higher in the atmosphere to melt that snow. He says if the precipitation refreezes before it hits the ground, it’ll become sleet. If not until contacting the ground, freezing rain. Both results he adds could cause hazardous driving conditions.