Alert Day: Freezing rain makes for slick conditions as winter weather hits Maryland - CBS Baltimore

First Alert Meteorologist Abigail Degler has your Thursday Alert Day forecast

First Alert Meteorologist Abigail Degler has your Thursday Alert Day forecast 03:02

BALTIMORE -- Wet and wintry upwind is covering Maryland connected Thursday, prompting schoolhouse closures and delays and making for slick driving conditions. 

A wintry premix began successful Western Maryland Wednesday nighttime and transitions into Central Maryland by the pre-dawn hours Thursday. 

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Some roads volition go slick crossed the portion earlier the greeting unreserved hour, particularly bridges and overpasses. Western Maryland, successful particular, volition spot slick and hazardous conditions with temps successful the 20s arsenic the freezing rainfall begins. 

Temperatures commencement successful the 30s, and volition highest this day successful the mid-40s.

Ice accumulations volition beryllium important successful acold Western Maryland wherever up to 3 to 4 inches of crystal volition autumn by precocious Thursday. Power outages and histrion harm volition beryllium apt successful these areas. 

An Ice Storm Warning is successful effect for Garrett & Allegany Counties owed to important crystal that is expected. 

A Winter Weather Advisory is successful effect for the remainder of the region, but for the Lower Eastern Shore, for lighter crystal accumulations that could pb to slick spots and a airy glaze connected cars and elevated surfaces. 

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Past the crystal menace aboriginal successful the morning, we're looking astatine a soggy remainder of the time successful Central Maryland with persistent rain. 

The Eastern Shore volition spot the changeover earlier. Western Maryland volition spot freezing rainfall astir of the day, and areas westbound of the Blue Ridge Mountains volition spot the astir prolonged play of icy weather. 

Rain whitethorn go dense astatine times during the day with rainfall totals exceeding 2 inches successful immoderate areas by aboriginal Friday morning. 

The tempest strategy volition propulsion distant from the country precocious Thursday nighttime into Friday greeting with day clearing. 

Expect sunshine from this play done Wednesday with acold nights and chill afternoons. Highs volition scope the 40s with lows successful the 20s astir of adjacent week. 

An arctic acold beforehand is poised to determination into the country conscionable earlier Christmas Eve and this volition apt bring immoderate of the coldest aerial of the play heading into Christmas Day. 

There is besides a accidental for immoderate snowfall showers with this front, but it is inactive excessively aboriginal to find the grade of immoderate accidental for immoderate wintry weather.