Here are the latest updates on the snowstorm coming to the Fayetteville-Fort Bragg region today.
7:30 a.m.: 1 to 3 inches of snow today
The morning twilight showed light traffic on brined roads as the Fayetteville-Fort Bragg region prepared for its second snowstorm this winter.
Overnight, the forecast shifted to push back the start of the frozen precipitation. Expected totals are also higher this morning, from an inch or two yesterday to as high as three inches in parts of Cumberland County. Areas to the north and west are expected to get higher accumulation.
Snow isn’t expected to reach central Fayetteville until around 10 a.m., but we have a chance of rain before 10.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the forecast says rain and snow are likely.
And then it will snow between 1 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Schools across the region are closed today.
The winter scenery is not expected to linger as long as it did two weeks ago, when parts of the Cape Fear region got as much as five inches of snow. Temperatures will dip to 17 degrees tonight but warm up in the sun Thursday to 39 degrees. Wind chills tonight will be as low as 9 degrees.
Friday will be 53 degrees.