AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports on the impact of snow, rain and sleet that are causing messy conditions on the roads and highways in Texas and Oklahoma on Jan. 9-10 during the winter storm.
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00:00It has been a sloppy winter storm for
00:02folks in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.
00:04As we saw rain so sleet we didn't see any
00:07hail but we certainly saw pretty much
00:09every precipitation type you could
00:10squeeze out of a winter storm across
00:13the Dallas Fort Worth metro area.
00:14As we went Thursday into Friday,
00:16will take you back to Thursday when
00:18the height of the storm came Thursday
00:20morning it looked like it was going
00:22to be an all snow event near whiteout
00:25conditions in some cases heavy snow falling.
00:27But as we got into the afternoon,
00:29snow covered right above the freezing mark.
00:32And that meant a transition from all
00:34snow to a mix of snow and sleet and
00:36sometimes even sleet and a very cold,
00:39miserable rain that miserable rain
00:40continued into the evening hours,
00:42even into the overnight hours for a
00:44lot of the Metroplex as we didn't see
00:47temperatures quite get cold enough
00:48to support an all snow events.
00:50Still, though,
00:51accumulations of snow and sleet
00:53totaled anywhere between 3 inches
00:54and 6 inches on the northern half
00:56north of I-20 in the Dallas Fort
00:58Worth Metroplex South.
00:59It was more of a sleet rain sleet mix,
01:01so fortunately though,
01:02most people taking the warnings seriously.
01:04Rush hour was virtually non existent
01:06Thursday even into Friday morning.
01:08Not a lot of cars on the road.
01:10First thing across the border
01:11into Oklahoma.
01:12Different story.
01:13A lot more snow up this way as the
01:15colder air was much more entrenched
01:17up here in Oklahoma and we will
01:19see that snow come to an end as
01:21we get into the evening hours
01:23tonight and remaining cold.
01:25Throughout the weekend,
01:26reporting for Accuweather,
01:27in Ardmore, OK, I'm meteorologist Tony Lawback.