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We'll follow it up with strong wind gusts Friday and Saturday.

The same system producing severe weather and blizzard conditions will bring us some rain

Afternoon highs will be in the 60s the next two-to-three days

Days of freezing temperatures in Deep South areas that usually freeze for only hours are threatening dozens of water systems as burst pipes leak millions of gallons of water.

Freezing rain will fall in parts of the area during the morning commute Thursday

Any storm(s) that form will primarily cause localized wind damage, but a tornado cannot be ruled out

While a severe weather outbreak is forecast in the Deep South, that won't be the case for us Thursday

Forecasters say a powerful, late-winter storm combining rivers of moisture and frigid temperatures is expected to dump snow from the Deep South all the way north to the Canadian border over the weekend.

Spring and winter battle it out over southwest and central Virginia Thursday and Friday

Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to drop Friday evening as a major winter storm turned already slippery roads and sidewalks into ice-covered hazards.

It won't rain the entire time between now and Saturday. Where it does rain, it pours.

ROANOKE, Va. – For the second time in about a week, parts of the Deep South and Tennessee River Valley are under the gun for a significant severe weather outbreak. That same storm system will give us some afternoon showers Thursday, but the severe threat for our area at that time will be quite low. FutureTracker - 1 p.m. Thursday, 3/25/2021Temperatures, meanwhile, will reach into the 60s and 70s area-wide prior to any afternoon showers. FutureTracker - 10 p.m. ThursdayIf we do see any stronger storms, that potential would be along and west of Interstate 77. What we're tracking - Saturday, 3/27/2021As that front lifts north, it opens up the gates for another, stronger system to move in from the west.

ROANOKE, Va. – After a sunny and chilly weekend, we start Monday out quite chilly with temperatures in the 20s and 30s. For some of us, the ice scraper will get a little bit of work in before heading out for the day. Frost alert for Monday morning, 1/11/2021Clouds continue to increase throughout the day, keeping our temperatures only in the 40s by the afternoon. Hourly planner for Monday, 1/11/2021These clouds are in association with a storm that’s dumped snow on parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi since Sunday. However, it’s possible that we see some flurries or light snow showers in parts of the New River Valley around midday.

Abrams, the onetime candidate for Georgia governor who has become perhaps the nation's leading voice on voting rights, is being credited for paving those inroads. “There’s a lot of work that’s gone into this, but Stacey really is the architect of what’s been built in Georgia,” said Dubose Porter, the former Georgia Democratic Party chairman and an Abrams mentor. The 2018 campaign marked a notable shift in Georgia Democrats’ overall approach. They’d do it by reshaping the electorate, by exciting the expanding universe of potentially Democratic voters: the youngest native white Georgians; whites from beyond Georgia; Black voters who cast ballots sporadically; Black voters moving to Georgia from other regions; and a growing Latino and Asian-American population. “We’ll take on Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams and all of them.”Trump himself was an accelerating variable in Georgia’s shift, pushing some white suburbanites toward Democrats.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks at a campaign rally on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)COLUMBIA, S.C. – In the battle for control of the U.S. Senate this year, the Deep South is fielding more Black candidates than it has since Reconstruction. Mike Espy and Adrian Perkins, meanwhile, are launching spirited bids for the Senate in Mississippi and Louisiana, respectively. The Senate currently has three Black members: Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina and Democrats Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California. “The more competitive races are, and Black candidates win those competitive races, it diminishes this worry that Black candidates can’t win,” Abrams recently told The Associated Press. In Mississippi, Espy is trying for a second time to become the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction with his challenge to Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

ROANOKE, Va. – Zeta made landfall Wednesday as a strong Category 2 hurricane and has been racing through the Deep South ever since. Therefore, a Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the southern half of our region. Tropical storm warning in effect for the southern half of our viewing area ThursdayIn addition to the threat for localized flooding, there’s the potential for wind gusts to reach 50 mph between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. in these locations. An additional 1-2″+ is expected from the storm, which could lead to flooding of creeks, streams, poor drainage and low-lying areas. FutureTracker - midday ThursdayAfter about 12 p.m., we’ll watch for some segments of high wind gusts and possible rotation (especially in Southside).