FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY | January winter storm arrives [Video]

(WSAZ) – PHASE ONE – Snow moves in from west to east, making it to the WV border around noon. The models continue to get heavy quick with the snow, and it’s too much to discount using the ‘yeah, but we never get any’ principle. Once the snow starts, expect it to get steady quickly, to the point where some should see 1″/hr type accumulation rates right before it starts mixing over.

PHASE TWO – The change to sleet/ice will ride up from the south/west starting around 3pm today, followed then by a change to rain that ‘eventually’ reaches the maximum spread indicated on the Phase Two graphic around dawn Monday. Folks in the green closer to I-64 (like near Charleston) will stay longer in ice before finally getting to rain early Monday, which will result in dangerous conditions until the change is complete. This means an Ice Storm is …