Light sleet and freezing drizzle are now blanketing southeastern North Carolina and northeast South Carolina. Precipitation across most of our listening area will have tapered off by mid-afternoon.
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UPDATE: 5 pm
The National Weather Service is forecasting frozen precipitation to continue until 10 pm Tuesday.
An Ice Storm Warning is in effect until 8 pm.
Even though the sleet and freezing rain will have moved out, hazardous driving conditions are likely to remain. That’s according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Michael Colby.
"Temperatures are expected to remain below freezing for the remainder of the day with some dropping of temperatures overnight into the low to middle twenties across the area – which will lend itself to the hazard of black ice – which is the re-freezing of liquid into ice overnight into tomorrow morning."
Bridges and overpasses are the most treacherous points for vehicles. Colby advises paying particular attention to those elevated structures that have curves as they are especially dangerous in these conditions.
Any remaining black ice, says Colby, should have melted by midday Wednesday.
