As we roll into Saturday, the weekend really gets off to a beautiful start. Sunshine will take center stage for most of the day. Afternoon highs will climb into the low 70s. The air will feel mild, the skies will stay mostly clear, and overall it should feel like an ideal early spring day.
More than 20 million people in the northeast are under winter weather advisories as a snowstorm makes its way east, creating more travel headaches over the next few days.
Blue Ridge Energy and visiting line crews continue working tonight, battling downed trees across the service area, to restore power to a remaining 818 members as of 9 pm Friday.
The first snowstorm of the season has given way to rain and high winds in the New York City area, as commuters here and across New Jersey and elsewhere were facing slow rides to work.
Blue Ridge Energy crews and over 100 additional line and tree technicians continue battling outages from overnight winds coupled with Thursday’s ice storm that have left nearly 4,000 members without power this morning.
Officials say all lanes on Providence Road have reopened to traffic.
From the deep South to New England, a deadly winter storm is dropping a messy mix of snow, sleet and ice.
Detectives in Union County say they filed criminal charges against a mother for driving around barricades on NC 218 during Hurricane Florence that resulted in the tragic drowning death of her one-year-old son last month.
Winter looks wet and especially mild for much of the country, thanks to a weak El Nino brewing, U.S. meteorologists said.
