Besides the snow, temperatures will drop far enough for hypothermia and frostbite to occur within 30 minutes over the next few days.
COLD ALERTS
OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY: Western Pocahontas and western Greenbrier County will see wind chills drop to -11 to -15 degrees through mid-morning Wednesday, so Cold Weather Advisories are now in effect.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING: We expect new Cold Weather Advisories to be reissued for Wednesday night into Thursday morning for the same counties with expansion into eastern Nicholas, eastern Fayette and eastern Raleigh County as the wind chill drops to the threshold of -5 degrees.
Friday morning will be the coldest for the region under clear skies and a light wind. Temperatures at daybreak will range from -5 degrees in the Greenbrier Valley to 4 degrees above zero for the rest of the region. Cold Weather Advisories are likely east of Route 19.
SNOW: Another half inch of snow is expected west of Lewisburg overnight and then two systems, one late Wednesday and another Friday evening into Saturday will bring accumulating snow. Below are the snow totals expected from each of these systems.
Winter Weather Advisories will expand from where they are currently in effect (Pocahontas, Nicholas and western Greenbrier County) to the Route 19 corridor with the Wednesday night/early Thursday event and likely issued for the entire region for the Friday night into Saturday storm.
