Fayetteville. 35 wilson, 38 goldsboro. Sanford, smithfield below freezing. Roanoke rapids as freezing. We look at the day ahead mainly cheer now and high clouds. By lunchtime 50s and this afternoon 58 in the area. We will talk more about the warm air and colder and wet weather coming. Barbara slippery side roads are causing delays. John this is the latest list. Wake cut schools and chapel Hill Carrboro schools threehour delay. Barbara classes canceled for chatham. Durham, franklin, granville. Lee, orange, person, vance and warren. So is mecklinburg county, virginia. John twohour is halifax, moore, northampton and weldon. For a complete list of closings barbara crews worked yesterday to get parking lots and sidewalks cleared of ice and snow as schools were late. There is sanderson high covered with highs and this is how it is this morning. All the ice is phroutd but you see plowed but it is a little safer but theres still a little bit of ice and snow melt. Wake county schools on a three
Virginia osed, moore closed. Person county closed, the band county closed, threehour delay for wake county d Warren County schools are closed as well. You can also see closings and delays on www. Wral. Com. Also scrolling at the bottom of your screen. The good news is warmer weather today. High of 58 . Thats right. Yesterday we had a high of 52. That was a nice warm day but we had a lot of cloud cover. That un is good at melting the snow, just the air temperature does not do nearly as good of a job as the son. We had some melting yesterday but not as much as we want to get this morning, we are expecting more sunshine. Matter fact you can see that over downtown roxboro right now, still plenty of snow and ice on the grass and of course where it has been piled up. But, they have done a nice job of getting off of sidewalks and streets. However, there have been piles of snow and ice melting and even though temperatures want as cold last night we are seeing isolated patches of black ice alon
Others choosing to start on delay. That is because roads remain covered in ice. Now lets take a look from dry 5. One of the streets here in raleigh. Now, you can see a lot of snowpack there in that area. That is why the School Systems are choosing to close or delay classes to not take chances with school buss and parents trying to get their kids to school. Certainly those temperatures will hover just around the freezing mark overnight as well. Adding another layer of a problem there, our meteorologist joins us live in the Weather Center with more what the forecast is. The temperatures had heading in the right direction. Now, warm enough to get rid of the snow and the ice. 52 is what we had. 58 at fayetteville. So, there was melting, but, again, not all of it gone. And we are warmer tonight than last night, 11 degrees at 13. And fayetteville, melting is still going on. Only 41 at the airport. 43 in rocky mount. Freezing, now, a lot of cloud cover out there right now. The expectation tow
By 10 00 we are in the 40s, by lunchtime we are in the 50s. Even though we are in the 30s now that threehour delay will push them into the 40s. You will see 60s in the sand hills feel everybody except smithfield and sanford above freezing. That helps to melt it off. 37 Southern Pines, 36 chapel hill. 35 roxboro. 30 roanoke rapids. We look at the day ahead. 36 and mainly clear now. Lunchtime partly sunny and 54. This afternoon partly sunny and 58 in the triangle, low 60s in the sand hills. We will talk about that and have the sevenday forecast in a date. John breaking news. A big water main break that could impact your route to work. Barbara it is in the 700 block of durham road also known as highway 98 in wake forest. Gloria rodriguez has the latest. Good morning. Gloria good morning to you. Around me. They have blocked off part of durham road also known as highway 98. This is what you need to know. It is closed between u. S. One to tyler run drive. Where we are is a little farther out
Heres a list of closings and delays. Schools are operating on a threehour delay tomorrow. Franklin, grandville, lee, orange, per sin varns and warren counties are closed. Operating on a twohour delay, halifax, moore, North Hampton county and welden city schools. For a complete list of closings and delays goes to abc 11 dotcom. Falling temperatures are not everything efforts to clear the roads. They have spent most of the day tackling side raise. 100 plow trucks. The warmer temperatures helped to melt the sighs onice on secondary roads. They sent crews over to durham. Tonight only 850 outages remain. Hundreds of crews from out of state are helping to restore one of them is a lineman from louisiana. There are thousands of guys out here. Ive been doing this 20 years. And thats part of it. You know, the money is great. But the satisfaction of knowing that youre out there helping these people that dont have lights and youre helping them, thats a big part of us doing it. Lets take you to bul