NORTH CAROLINA (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Friday and Saturday are Pinpoint Weather Alert days as snow, ice, and rain will all be likely heading into the weekend.
Look for snow to start west of I-77 with some rain mixed in early Friday afternoon. Snow should take over for uptown and points north while areas south of I-85 likely see more rain than sleet through the afternoon.
Rain and snow will transition into freezing rain as we approach the late afternoon and evening hours. The ice will intermittently linger overnight into Saturday, leaving behind a glaze and hazardous travel for Saturday morning.
Watch Queen City News Weather Cameras as the snow and ice move in.
Snow totals will likely be less than an inch around Uptown but still has the potential to end the 1,000-day-plus snow drought for Charlotte.
Our mountain counties can see a higher amount, somewhere in the range of 2”–4”. When it comes to the ice, we’ll see a light glaze of at best to 0.25 inch of ice south and east of Uptown.
Saturday will hold on to a few lingering snow showers in our western-facing slopes with cold air sticking around for the rest of the weekend. 40s will finish off the weekend and kick off the work week with dry, sunny, and below-normal conditions lasting through Wednesday.
