Freezing rain to ice county roads

As temperatures begin to warm up above the freezing mark throughout the later part of the morning and early part of the afternoon, the freezing rain will begin to change over to plain rain by the afternoon, possible pockets of freezing drizzle.

A storm system that triggered deadly tornadoes and flooding in the U.S. Midwest and Southwest was pushing north on Tuesday, bringing snow and ice to a swath of the country from Iowa to MA and threatening another day of air travel delays.

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) Vermont’s largest utility is warning of likely outages as a winter storm bears down on the state, and is touting new high-tech ways to get and share information about them.

The National Weather Service at Mount Holly, N.J., has issued a winter weather advisory for Lehigh and Northampton counties from 7 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday for sleet, freezing rain and snow.

The first significant snowstorm of the 2015 winter is expected to create a “very tricky morning commute” on Tuesday, Buttrick said.

Tuesday will be a test of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s new storm incident management system, Pollack said. The first winter snow brings snow and ice to help the winter regain its rights. As much as an inch of snow may fall. New Year’s Day will be partly cloudy with the highest temperatures in the upper 20s.

With a possibility of light overnight rain or sleet for northeast IL (including Lake County), by Monday morning the moisture will build, beginning with snow that will turn to freezing rain by noon.

Michigan State Police also issued an advisory for drivers. Daytime sleet accumulation is forecast to be less than half an inch. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter-of-an-inch possible. Winds out of the northeast gusting from 30 to 40 m.p.h. are expected to blow and drift the new snow along with reducing visibility on area roads.

Rainfall estimates from the weather service show that more than 14 inches of rain fell December 21-26 in parts of eastern Alabama and more than 10 inches fell in northwest Alabama.