Ice storm warning

Several schools in the area are closing Tuesday due to an incoming Ice Storm Warning set to go into effect Monday night.

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Good Morning West Tennessee. Temps have been slowly falling so far thanks to the a strong area of arctic high pressure located in the High Plains. At the ...

For this reason National Weather Service in Memphis has issued an ICE STORM WARNING for most of West Tennessee. An additional wave will spread more freezing rain by mid to late afternoon, that will continue through Wednesday morning. Temps have been slowly falling so far thanks to the a strong area of arctic high pressure located in the High Plains.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Between .025 and a half-inch of ice is expected to cover the Mid-South between 6 p.m. on Monday, January 30, and noon on Wednesday, ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which was forced to issue rolling blackouts in Memphis and other areas during that system of winter weather, sent FOX13 the following statement regarding preparations for this potential ice event. The more traffic a road gets, the warmer that road will be and the quicker any ice and snow will melt. Stay away from seldom-traveled routes and stay away from bridges and overpasses if you can as those tend to get icier quicker. - When you’re not driving, keep your ice scraper outside of your car. Public Works can deploy up to fourteen trucks to spread sand and salt as part of its de-icing operation. - If you must get out on the roads, give other drivers plenty of space and use caution when changing lanes. The City’s third priority is to ensure first responders and emergency service providers such as hospitals, police, and fire precincts can function and may receive special consideration during inclement weather. - Check the tread on your tires. - Stock up on enough food, medication and necessary supplies to get you through a two-day period. — Between .025 and a half-inch of ice is expected to cover the Mid-South between 6 p.m. Frozen pipes can erupt and wreak havoc on a home, as many Memphians are all-too-familiar with from the winter weather event which blasted the Mid-South in late December. Make sure your vehicles are in a garage or away from trees and power lines, if possible.

While some 15 million Americans are under winter storm and ice storm warnings, the hardest hit will be Texas, where up to two-thirds of an inch of ice buildup ...

That stretch of freezing rain will span all the way to Nashville and Memphis by the overnight into Wednesday morning, while simultaneously lingering in the Lone Star State. In northern and central Texas, including Dallas-Fort Worth, about a half-inch of ice, give or take, is likely through Wednesday night. Arctic high pressure parked across the central Plains is allowing an uninterrupted supply of frigid Canadian air to bleed south. Rain straddling a stalled front will expand in coverage and intensity while simultaneously working northeast Monday afternoon. - Before the freezing rain begins, inspect your property to ensure there are no tree limbs that, if they sag or droop under the weight of incoming ice, could cause property damage. [Here’s how it works](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/25/polar-vortex-is-forecast-again-heres-what-it-means/?itid=cb_box_XFIDZTAGOFFZ3KLUMINMT2OR54_4). That allows rain to remain a liquid until it reaches the ground. Multiple waves of freezing rain, which will deposit a dangerous glaze of ice on roadways, structures and vegetation, are expected through Wednesday, making for treacherous travel and potential power outages. Chain-reaction crashes are very common during freezing rain events (more so than during any other type of weather). As such, travel is discouraged and will be perilous on untreated surfaces. Freezing drizzle was falling Monday morning across north-central Texas and southern Oklahoma. And a 1,400-mile-long swath is under winter weather advisories because of the icy precipitation — though some locations could be upgraded to warnings, or downgraded, as the forecast becomes clearer.

Icy weather will move through the Mid-South in two rounds with the first arriving tonight and the second round moving in Tuesday afternoon and continuing ...

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WHAT...A couple of rounds of freezing rain and sleet are expected tonight through Tuesday night. Significant ice accruals over a quarter inch are possible.

T​his weather system has been named Winter Storm Mara (MARE-uh) by The Weather Channel. (​MORE: How Winter Storms Are Named). M​ara's ice threat is occurring ...

Here is Todd Demers' weather forecast Monday morning: Cloudy and damp this morning with light drizzle. A chilly day ahead with highs in the upper 30s and north ...

Winter storm warnings and advisories stretched from Texas to New York as snow, sleet and freezing rain snarled air traffic and brought havoc to roads.

] [The ice storm warning impacting Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee until noon on Wednesday was expected to bring ice accumulations of a quarter to one-half inch, the weather service in ] [Memphis](https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=MEG&wwa=ice%20storm%20warning) said. [Winter storm warnings hit Texas, extend east ] [ A winter storm warning was in effect in north Texas and western central Texas until noon on Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said. ] [Wind advisories, wind chills as low as 35 degrees below zero] [Farther north, wind advisories were in effect in Wisconsin, Minnesota and other states across the Midwest and Plains until Tuesday morning. Parts of east Arkansas, Northern Mississippi and west Tennessee were under an ice storm warning, and officials cautioned against traveling in the hazardous conditions. The dangerous temperatures can “cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes,” the National Weather Service ] [warned. 31 because of the potential for hazardous road conditions when buses would be on the road.] ["Roads and bridges/overpasses are very slick. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said a band of sleet and storms were moving over the area. [LaGuardia Airport issued a brief ground stop](https://console.lentaminen.com/delays) early Tuesday from icy weather conditions that were causing " flight disruptions." "Expect road conditions to continue to worsen," the Fort Worth office said in a tweet. [Treacherous road conditions in Nashville, Memphis] [The National Weather Service warned that much of Tennessee was facing ice and sleet. In Texas, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field issued ground stops Tuesday morning because of snow and ice. "It is advised to NOT be on the roads today.

Region 8 residents can expect power outages and slick roads this week with the arrival of sleet and freezing rain.

on KAIT-ABC & KAIT-NBC. [facebook.com/region8news](http://facebook.com/region8news) [facebook.com/ryanvaughanweather](http://facebook.com/ryanvaughanweather) [facebook.com/MeteorologistAaronCastleberry](http://www.facebook.com/MeteorologistAaronCastleberry/) [facebook.com/jacepassmorekait](https://www.facebook.com/jacepassmorekait) [click here](https://www.kait8.com/page/apps/). [North Arkansas Electric Cooperative:](http://www.naeci.com/) [Mississippi County Electric Cooperative:](http://www.mceci.com/) [https://www.idrivearkansas.com/](https://www.idrivearkansas.com/) [https://smartway.tn.gov/traffic?features=incident,traffic](https://smartway.tn.gov/traffic?features=incident,traffic) “Another round of sleet and freezing rain will start to move in by lunchtime,” he said. [http://traveler.modot.org/map/index.html](http://traveler.modot.org/map/index.html) [Farmers Electric Cooperative](http://www.farmersecc.com/): [Outage map](https://outagecraigheadelectriccoop.ecark.org/) [Craighead Electric Cooperative:](http://craigheadelectric.coop/)

Stretching from Texas to Tennessee, the storm will continue through at least Thursday morning, affecting travel and possibly knocking out power in some ...

[southern Oklahoma](https://twitter.com/NWSNorman/status/1620439944563916802) and parts of Arkansas, where hazardous road conditions were making driving dangerous and at least [one accident](https://www.facebook.com/ForrestCityFire/posts/pfbid0mrhN9B7kp6vEaS2Cg9DxFh9t6g7pwyhGDw5u9TxeLbiYySrgimYdXQVnhw9UhgzCl) was reported. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she [activated winter weather support teams](https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1620106009900613632) from the Arkansas National Guard. The Austin Fire Department said it was seeing a [spike in multiple-car pile-ups](https://twitter.com/AustinFireInfo/status/1620397888760328193) causing significant injuries and that at least one person had died in a collision. [FlightAware](https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/). [said in a statement](https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-readies-state-operations-center-for-winter-weather). [disrupted thousands of flights](https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today).

Winter weather swept through the Mid-South late Monday night, leaving the area coated in a thin layer of ice Tuesday morning.

City of Memphis Municipal Courts were closed, and the VA closed its outpatient clinics. The University of Memphis closed all Shelby County locations and the Lambuth campus in Jackson. NWS advised that freezing rain is the most dangerous type of winter weather to drive in and authorities asked people not to go out if they don't have to until the storm passes. Freezing rain and sleet were expected overnight and into early Wednesday morning. About one-tenth of an inch of ice had accumulated in many places across the Metro area and more ice, along with the possibility of sleet, freezing rain or snow flurries, was expected into Wednesday. "The temperatures are kind of the big question," Dirkes said.