Slippery journey for some on Tuesday with potential freezing rain

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) – It began with a spherical of snow this morning, sufficient to shut a couple of districts, and it’s been adopted by above freezing temperatures in lots of areas this afternoon.

Now, simply as issues begin to settle down, we’re headed for one more spherical of Winter Weather Advisories for the potential of a wintry combine on Tuesday, a few of that features a probability for freezing rain. For extra data on these advisories, head to our Weather Alerts page or learn our forecast beneath.

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This Evening & Overnight

It’s very grey this night, however we should always handle to remain dry from any precipitation this night. It might really feel humid and damp (comparatively talking) from the upper dew factors and hotter air transferring into the realm, and we’ve additionally melted some snow at this time, however there received’t be something falling from the sky by means of about midnight or so.

Overnight, we’ll doubtless see remoted to broadly scattered precipitation because the system will get nearer to us, with widespread moist climate holding off till later within the morning on Tuesday.

There can be an opportunity that we might get a quick mixture of snow and sleet in some areas proper initially, earlier than rain and drizzle get going.

Where temperatures drop beneath freezing tonight, we should be careful for the potential of any icing on space roads. The space we’re most involved about that is the advisory space, however know a quick interval of freezing rain is feasible outdoors of the advisory space earlier than temperatures come up above freezing.

Overnight lows will probably be within the 20s to low 30s earlier than anybody warms up. Thankfully, winds ought to be gentle out of a southerly path tonight.

Tuesday

Advisories will probably be in place from 1 AM to 1 PM on Tuesday, and ice totals when all is claimed and carried out are anticipated to be largely underneath 0.10″ of an inch. However, some remoted spots might go increased than that, although that will be extra of the exception.

As precipitation strikes by means of tomorrow, it may very well be a messy system the place there may be some change backwards and forwards between rain and a wintry combine with some snow. Temperatures are so borderline across the freezing mark that this may occasionally trigger situations to fluctuate broadly from place to position.

For people who see durations of snow, right now, accumulations are anticipated to be minor. But we’ll be watching how issues progress by means of the day.

If that weren’t sufficient, we predict fog may very well be a problem at occasions, a few of it regionally dense all through the day. Although it comes with the worth of fog, a minimum of our winds will probably be gentle and variable by means of the day, which ought to remove a minimum of a bit of stress on the timber.

Temperatures are anticipated to return up above freezing into the afternoon hours for many, and that, together with highway remedies ought to assist issues out on space roads. It’s value noting we did have an occasion just lately the place temperatures struggled to heat as much as projections, so we’ll even be aware of this tomorrow.

We anticipate to dry out in most areas by round 8 PM on Tuesday night, although fog will stay a chance even after precipitation stops.

We’ll drop into the higher 20s and low 30s on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.

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