Oklahoma schools closing, moving to remote learning Wednesday due to winter weather - KOCO Oklahoma City

WE HAVE MULTIPLE CREWS AND CHASERS ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW GIVING US A LOOK AT ALL OF THE WINTER CONDITIONS THAT WE’RE SEEING. BUT FIRST, LET’S GO TO CHIEF METEOROLOGIST DAMON LANE WHO’S JOINING US, ALONG WITH METEOROLOGIST SABRINA BATES. YEAH, GOOD AFTERNOON. CERTAINLY OUR WINTER STORM CONTINUES HERE. YOU CAN SEE SNOW FOR OKC DOWN TO THE SOUTHWEST. IT HAS BEEN A DAY WHERE IT STARTED OUT AS RAIN. IT CHANGED OVER TO SNOW. IT HAS BEEN A VERY HEAVY, WET SNOW. BUT BECAUSE TEMPERATURES ARE JUST RIGHT AROUND 32 DEGREES, THERE’S BEEN SOME AREAS STILL DEALING WITH A CHILLY RAIN LIKE STILLWATER AS YOU MAKE YOUR WAY UP TOWARDS TULSA. BUT FOR OKC, IT HAS BEEN SNOW AND HAS BEEN SOME HEAVY, REALLY HEAVY RAIN. REALLY BIG THAT SNOWFLAKES COMING DOWN AS WELL. YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A RAIN SNOW MIX JUST NORTH OF OKC, UP FOR GUTHRIE, BUT FOR OKLAHOMA COUNTY, THE SNOW COMING DOWN FROM EDMOND TO DOWNTOWN OKC, THE INTENSITY, THE SNOW HAS BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH, BUT FOR THE MOST PART IT’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO DECREASE AS WE GO LATER INTO THE EVENING HERE. LET’S FIRST GO OUT TO FIELD METEOROLOGIST MICHAEL ARMSTRONG. A STORM COMMAND, AN EXTREME SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COUNTY. MICHAEL, HOW THE ROADS THIS AFTERNOON? WELL, THERE WERE DAMON, WE BUT WE STILL HAVE THAT SNOW THAT’S COMING DOWN, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, WHERE AT 240 AND EASTERN HERE ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF OKC, REMOVING OVER KIND OF TOWARD TINKER AIR FORCE BASE ND SNOWFALL RATES. RIGHT NOW THEY’RE I WOULD CALL THEM MUCH MODERATE LIKE LOW TO MODERATE AS FAR AS THE INTENSITY GOES. AND AND IF IT MAINTAINS THIS RATE, I THINK WE’LL STILL JUST END UP WITH WET ROADWAYS FOR YOUR EVENING COMMUTE. BACK TO YOU. YEAH, I THINK YOU’RE EXACTLY RIGHT THERE, MICHAEL, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SOME OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES THAT WE HAD WERE REALLY EARLY THIS MORNING OUT IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA. AND THE ROADS REALLY NEVER GOT ALL THAT BAD EVEN OUT THERE AS WELL. LET’S CHECK IN WITH DERIK KLINE RIGHT NOW. DERIK KLINE IS GOING TO BE SOUTH OF NORMAN. DEREK, HOW ARE THINGS IN CLEVELAND COUNTY? YEAH. DAMON SO THERE’S A COUPLE INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND HERE. WE STILL HAVE KIND OF LIKE MICHAEL WAS TALKING ABOUT, LIKE ALMOST MODERATE SNOW FALLING RIGHT NOW. IT’S BEEN SNOWING BASICALLY ALL DAY HERE AT ABOUT I GET ABOUT TWO INCHES OF SNOW RIGHT NOW ON THE GROUND, BUT THE ROADS ARE FINE. SO TRAVEL IS NOT NOT BAD AT ALL DOWN HERE IN NORMAN. BUT WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WATCH IT AS THE SUN SETS. IF IT DOES SIDES TO GET A LITTLE HEAVIER SNOW, MAYBE WE’LL GET SOME ON THE ROADS. BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, JUST WET ROADS. BACK TO YOU. YEAH, AND FOR THE PM COMMUTE, WINTER STORM WARNING, THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST CASE SCENARIO WE COULD SEE. YES, THE ROADS ARE WET, BUT A WINTER STORM WARNING AND ALL THE SNOW THAT’S BEEN FALLING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE FACT THAT THE ROADS ARE JUST WET, THAT’S CERTAINLY SO MUCH SO MUCH WELCOME NEWS HERE TO COME SIDE TOWARDS SEMINOLE, DOWN TOWARDS HOLDENVILLE. IT IS SNOW. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST SNOW RATES AND THIS HEAVIEST SNOW BANDS HAVE BEEN SOUTH AND EAST OF I-44. AND THEN OUT ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN OKLAHOMA, SNOW FROM I-35 PAULS VALLEY DOWN TO WYNNEWOOD AND THEN IT CHANGES BACK OVER TO RAIN AS YOU GO SOUTH OF TURNER FALLS. OTHERWISE, DOWN THE TURNPIKE TOWARDS LAWTON. THE DARKER THE BLUE LIKE YOU SEE THIS RIGHT HERE. LET’S GIVE YOU SOME OF THE HEAVIER SNOW. SO THAT’S WHAT WE’RE SEEING HERE RIGHT NOW IN SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA. BUT DRIER AIR NOW GETTING PULLED IN. WE SEE A BIT OF THAT RIGHT NOW FROM NEAR KINGFISHER OUT TOWARDS WATAUGA AND THEN CLINTON, WEATHERFORD AND OUTWARDS ELMORE CITY BY THE WAY, ELK CITY OUT TOWARDS EXTREME WESTERN OKLAHOMA, TORCHING CHEYENNE FOR THE SEVEN INCHES OF SNOW FELL EARLY THIS MORNING. A VERY HEAVY, WET SNOW. OTHERWISE, NORTHERN OKLAHOMA, SOME LIGHT SNOW FOR WOODWARD, NOT REALLY IMPACT ON TRAVEL TOO MUCH. SAME THING UP TOWARDS PONCA CITY TOWARDS BLAME BRAMAN BLACKWELL AND AS YOU MAKE AWAY TOWARDS AROUND PERRY OFFICIALLY AT WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT, WE HAVE HAD ONE INCH OF SNOW. HOW MUCH MORE SNOW WILL WE ADD ON TOP OF THAT WHEN THE SYSTEM BLOWS OUT OF HERE? WE’LL SHOW YOU COMING UP. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, DAVID, APPRECIATE IT AS ALWAYS. AND AS WE CONTINUE OUR TEAM COVERAGE RIGHT NOW WITH KOCO IS KYLIE THOMAS. KYLIE, YOU WERE OUT IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA WHERE THEY ARE SEEING SOME HEAVY SNOW. THEY MIGHT BE THE BIG WINNERS OUT THERE IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AND HOW ARE THE ROADS? WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AND DOWN THE ROAD? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. IT’S BEEN SNOWING FOR 5 HOURS STRAIGHT HERE IN THE CHICKASHA. AS YOU CAN SEE, IT IS STARTING TO ACCUMULATE ON THE GRASS AND NEARBY TREES. AND IT’S NO LONGER THE BIG, FLUFFY SNOWFLAKES THAT WE SAW EARLIER. THIS IS MORE ABOUT WHAT IT HAD HOPED FOR SNOWBALLS. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE ROADS HAVE REMAINED CLEAR FOR MOST OF THE DAY. TRUCKS HAVE BEEN OUT STANDING. THOSE GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE GOING HOME FROM WORK. YOU’LL STAY HERE AS THAT SNOW CONTINUES