CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The cold and snowy weather in the mountain state is just beginning.
Simone Lewis
National Weather Service Meteorologist Simone Lewis was on Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval Friday morning and she says that there are two waves of weather systems coming to the state.
The first wave began Friday morning with early morning commuters being met with heavy snow as they drove to work or to home. Also, the NWS extended their winter weather advisory, that they put in place Thursday afternoon, until Saturday at 10 a.m.
Lewis says that lower elevations should expect to see around 1-3 inches of snow, while higher elevations should expect to see more.
“When you do get up into the higher elevations of the northern mountains of West Virginia, there looking at some pretty significant snowfall amounts. We’re looking at a general 6-10 inches of snow in those areas, with upwards of a foot in isolated locations,” she said.
Lewis said that the second wave of weather is expected to hit Sunday afternoon and go into Monday.
She says that right there are still unknown about the weather system, however they believe that it will be a mix of different precipitations.
“There’s still quite a bit of uncertainty with this system but it is looking more and more like it is going to be a mix precipitation event for the entire state of West Virginia,” Lewis said. “That will include the possibility of snow, which could be heavy in some locations, as well as periods of sleet and freezing rain.”
Monday evening the storm should be departing the area; however, Lewis says that we will continue seeing low temperatures.
“When this system actually departs to our east later in the day on Monday, we are going to be looking at much colder air filtering into the state of West Virginia,” she said.
Lewis said that in the middle of next week, overnight low temperatures could be in the single digits statewide, and we could see a wind chill below zero.