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North Texans will wake up to freezing temperatures by Wednesday morning, and the high on Wednesday will only reach 36 degrees.Forecasters are warning drivers to be alert on Wednesday morning. Travelers and commuters in North Texas should pay close attention to forecast updates. An 18-wheeler did crash and topple over on US 175 near Bexar Street in Dallas, but it isn’t known if the accident was weather related.Temperatures in Wise County were flirted near the freezing mark and mixed precipitation was reported. Ice storm warnings are in effect for parts of Michigan to the north of Detroit, as well as Upstate New York and Down East Maine. Liquid brine is a mixture of salt and water that is sprayed.“We had such a warm weekend, but the potential for ice on the roads will be there,” said Val Lopez, a spokesman with the Texas Department of Transportation office in Fort Worth on Monday. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. It wasn’t 2:00 a.m. and a snow plow was already busy clearing the road on Highway 281 in northwest Jack County.Just outside of the metroplex, in Archer County, roads were covered with sleet and ice continued to fall in the early morning hours.Fearing the threat of freezing rain and sleet, crews with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) were out Monday and Tuesday pre-treating roads with brine.As of 5:00 a.m. Wednesday everything from drizzle to light rain was falling in some parts of the metroplex, but there were no ice concerns on the roadways. Features may include: Custom premium comfort seats with white cushions, matching ice blue piping & double diamond stitching. But we can’t live in a bubble,” the rapper originally tweeted Thursday. As a cold front pushes east, this extreme warmth is getting squeezed, but not before spitting out some more records.This bout of warmth comes during or near the coldest time of the year on average for places it is impacting. All the latest breaking news on Texas.
A severe thunderstorm watch was issued in Wichita for the afternoon, while a tornado watch is in effect in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. The most concentrated risk for the day focuses on Alabama, but severe weather is possible from the northern Gulf Coast into parts of the Ohio Valley and the Carolinas. Flooding along the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys is considered the most immediate threat.“The greatest risk for significant rainfall and potential flooding exists from east Texas and Arkansas into the central Mississippi Valley, eventually encompassing parts of Illinois, Indiana and the Ohio Valley before perhaps impacting the Northeast into Sunday,” Meteorologists also warned tornadoes could touch down, despite not being part of “tornado season.” However, the “The tornado threat will be highest in any individual thunderstorm cells that develop ahead of the main line, but tornadoes are possible anywhere in the threat zone,” Adamson said.The Midwest and New England areas won’t escape unscathed. On Saturday, a large squall line with damaging wind and embedded tornadoes was marching east across parts of the South. As of midday Saturday, In Nacogdoches County in East Texas, a 44-year-old man was killed when a A police officer and a paramedic in Lubbock in Northwest Texas were At least three people were killed in Louisiana on Friday as the weather complex plowed east. A snow and ice band is forecast to hit a 1,700-mile area, stretching from northern Oklahoma to Maine. A winter storm is bringing snowfall as far south as El Paso, Texas, while areas of the Deep South are at risk of severe weather including tornadoes and torrential rains ... 2020. The city can deploy as many as 33 trucks at a time, each working 12-hour shifts.By Thursday, a sunny sky is in the forecast, but it will be chilly. People are advised to be cautious about how much time they spend outside.Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. It’s been anything but frigid in 2020 so far.Through the first 10 days of the month, the Lower 48 was running nearly five degrees above normal. “Safety is our top priority, so it’s important we take some precautions.”In addition, Fort Worth and neighboring city officials are preparing for the potential for sleet and snow.In Fort Worth, if the ground is cold enough for precipitation to stick, and the forecast calls for ice, snow or freezing rain, sanding crews are put on standby, Fort Worth city officials said Monday. Thursday forecasts had the heart of a “volatile” storm front concentrated around “Residents and visitors will need to be extra vigilant, as many people may not think about severe weather in January,” The immediate threat will be widespread severe thunderstorms that could bring heavy rain, hail and dangerous winds. With reports of up to 2 or 3 inches, it’s a notable snowfall for that region.Another swath of snow accumulation with the low pressure Out ahead of the storm, abundant warmth is draped across eastern parts of the country.Temperatures have been running as much as 20 to 30 degrees or more above normal across a huge area, including a majority of locations east of the Mississippi River, since late in the workweek. Thunder could even rumble into the Mid-Atlantic late Saturday night into Sunday morning.The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has declared an “enhanced risk” of severe storms — level three of five — for parts of that region, stating “a couple strong tornadoes are possible” in addition to the ongoing damage threat from straight-line winds.