Winter Storm Avery, Storm Number One. Cranking up...

To start off, here is the NOAA Hazards Map in real time.

NWS - Watch, Warning, Advisory Display

Second Off, Focusing on I-81 Virginia in the Blacksburg Area. NWS page local office, forecasting a ice storm, snow event followed by actually a expected flooding problem east of I-81 into NC later into the weekend.

Blacksburg, VA

This is a experimental page that will display Ice Accumulation in tenth of a inch. FYI, Utilities are designed to withstand anywhere from .25 to .50 inches before failing under the weight of ice on the lines themselves.

I-81 is expecting 0.30 inches relatively quickly as the storm cranks tonight.

Winter Weather Experimental Probabilistic Snowfall and Ice

Arkansas is getting about a inch to two of special snow which has either a raindrop inside of it, making small pea shaped snow falling down or ice inside of it pellet form. We expect a FOOT into Southern Half of Illinois, A foot into Eastern Shore, a Foot or more particularly in West Virginia state wide relatively quickly followed by further blasts of big snow involving the entire Midwest, Northeast and midatlantic combined with a bad icing event in the Shenandoah Valley as well as the Ohio among other places pending.

PA in particular is expecting to get hit really hard. Call it the middle third of the state from Elmira-Binghampton straight south to Cumberland Md-Frederick Md to be walloped.

I can go on. But this will be sufficient to get things started tonight as this new storm named system cranks into a proper Winter Noreaster.

If you aint escaped by now into the west, you aint getting out any time soon. Be safe.

 

Louisville KY is cooking up a proper ice storm.https://www.weather.gov/lmk/weatherstory

Ice accumulations Louisville KYhttps://www.weather.gov/images/lmk/wxstory/Tab3FileL.png?4804982247dc50c02b3e4715ebc9b438

National Imagery

https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaad1.gif?1542250408

https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaad2.gif?1542250408

 

It is not me naming them. It's the National Weather Service.

Arkansas has gotten seriously dangerous tonight. Whatever is wet now is frozen creating black ice warnings from Memphis across towards Little Rock. We wont get above freezing until morning light late.

National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary

 

There should still be a truckstop above Rockport about 20 minutes at the interstate on the Ohio Bridge route. You might find safety there.

I'll update your weather come morning if you havent already done so for yourself. Wesr of you in Illinoi you have a major storm.