Major Ice Storm, Snow in South
The first round of Winter Storms Pax brought snow and sleet from northern Mississippi to northern Alabama, northern Georgia, northern South Carolina and parts of North Carolina on Tuesday.Tuesday Night into Wednesday morning, another wave of moisture will spread a more significant round of wintry precipitation across the South as weak low pressure forms in the Gulf of Mexico and tracks eastward. This moisture will ride over the top of a cold air mass nosing its way southward to the east of the Appalachians.
Through Tuesday night, a mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain will spread across northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, northern and central Mississippi, northern Alabama and eventually northern Georgia.
By Wednesday, we will see a widespread area of snow, sleet and freezing rain in the Southeast from the southern Appalachians to the northern half of Georgia, the Carolinas and northward into Virginia. Significant snow, sleet and freezing rain accumulations are likely in all of these locations with this phase of the storm.
Locations that see the heaviest freezing rain accumulations will likely experience power outages and tree damage. In addition to the weight of the ice on tree branches and power lines, gusty winds at times will also add to the widespread power outage threat.
From parts of north and central Georgia through central South Carolina and into central/eastern North Carolina, ice accumulations could be crippling with lengthy power outages and widespread tree damage. This area of concern is in the darker shadings of purple on our significant ice accumulation forecast map above at the right. Ice accumulations of a half inch to one inch are likely in parts in of this corridor. Portions of the Atlanta metro area, Augusta, Ga., Columbia, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C. are some of the cities most at risk for major ice accumulations and power outages.
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/winter-storm-pax-forecast-20140209
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