EMA gives weather update
Published 1:54 pm Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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The Chambers County 911/EMA gave an update on the inclement weather expected to hit later this week.
According to a National Weather Service meteorologist out of Birmingham, Chambers should expect travel to be impacted. They recommend not traveling on Friday, especially before noon and after nightfall.
Temperatures will be near freezing at midnight on Thursday.
“Temps will continue to fall and remain below freezing until 10:00 AM CST, whereafter temps will begin to climb to just slightly above freezing by the Noon CST hour,” EMA stated in their release.
The Emergency Service broke the timing of events, as of now on Wednesday afternoon:
Thursday
Midnight: At or near freezing
From 3 AM CST through 6 Am CST: We will increase from 30% to 80 % chance of precipitation in the form of snow. This will continue to increase to 100% chance of precipitation through the Noon CST hour.
From 7 Am CST through Noon CST: Snow will transition to sleet, then freezing rain. – THIS IS WHERE THE TRAVEL BECOMES HAZARDOUS
1 PM CST – 7 PM CST: Precipitation changes to cold rain, temps will rise to 33 in some areas and 35 in the northern area of the county, any frozen precipitation should melt and clear up most travel conditions.
BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES – That being said, bridges, overpasses, less traveled roads, and roads that do not get a lot of sunlight will remain spotty with patches of black ice or slick spots because they are concrete and metal and cool faster and warm slower – even after the temps rise to 33, 34 or 35.
FRIDAY NIGHT
After the temps drop below freezing again on Friday night, any residual water from the afternoon rain will freeze over and cause issues with black ice for Friday night into Saturday at about noon.
SATURDAY NIGHT
And the same again for Saturday night. Flurries of snow are possible again Saturday with no impacts for daytime but causing black ice again overnight into the early morning and well after daybreak.
SUNDAY
A deep freeze with lows in the teens to low 20s
TO NOTE: Randolph is in a winter storm watch with greater impacts – this could be extended further south with the next updates
To recap – the forecast is for a wintry mix beginning Thursday night into Friday and lasting throughout the midday Friday with travel becoming hazardous roughly from daybreak through Noon CST
