It looks like ice, potential power outages and extreme cold are on the menu for us well into next week.
National Weather Service forecasters in the Wakefield office issued a report at 2:45 this morning saying we’ll start seeing snow sometime late Saturday but it will switch to sleet and freezing rain overnight, then rain sometime Sunday afternoon because of warm air brought in at higher altitudes from a low off the Carolina coast.
We’ll be under a cold weather advisory Friday night as temperatures drop into the single digits, the weather service said. Temperatures will reach a high in the 20s Saturday and won’t climb back above freezing well into next week.
What the weather service is now calling “potentially catastrophic freezing rain accrual” should occur mainly along or near the I-85 and I-95 corridors to our west, the Wakefield forecasters say.
Dominion Power says it has m…