[MTHOLLYSVRWX] Winter Storm Warning or Watch or Advisory : PHI@ 11/30/2008 2:35:28 AM

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
235 AM EST SUN NOV 30 2008
 
NJZ001-PAZ054-055-301700-
/O.NEW.KPHI.WW.Y.0014.081130T1500Z-081201T0500Z/
SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG
235 AM EST SUN NOV 30 2008

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO
MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR A WINTRY MIX OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN
WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO MIDNIGHT EST
TONIGHT. THE WORST CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON THE POCONO PLATEAU
AND FAR NORTHWEST SUSSEX COUNTY.

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD THE ADVISORY AREA LATER THIS
MORNING. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO SLEET AND
FREEZING RAIN BY THIS AFTERNOON. ABOUT AN INCH OR TWO OF SNOW
AND SLEET SHOULD ACCUMULATE BEFORE THE CHANGEOVER. IN VALLEY
LOCATIONS, PRECIPITATION SHOULD CHANGE TO PLAIN RAIN DURING THE
AFTERNOON, BUT MIGHT TAKE MOST OF THE EVENING FOR THIS TO OCCUR
OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. UP TO ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE COULD
ACCRUE ON EXPOSED SURFACES. 

WITH EXTRA TRAVEL AROUND FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND,
PLEASE BE WARY OF HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS DEVELOPING,
ESPECIALLY ON UNTREATED SURFACES. THE POTENTIALLY WORST DRIVING
CONDITIONS ON UNTREATED SURFACES ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING WHEN
THE SNOW FIRST BEGINS AS TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW FREEZING AND
THEN AGAIN DURING THE EVENING IF FREEZING RAIN IS STILL IN
PROGRESS. WITHOUT THE AID OF THE INDIRECT SUNLIGHT...UNTREATED
ROADWAYS AND WALKWAYS WILL ICE MORE EFFICIENTLY ONCE THE SUN SETS.
 
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.

$$

TFG


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