Britta Merwin

We're going to start to see some large impacts starting on Friday for the southern plains.

That's where we have the potential for not only ice, but also a lot of snow.

We're looking at the potential here for over a foot and a half of snow, mainly north of Interstate 40 and up the I-35 corridor.

Now, this is going to be progressing out towards the east, moving into parts of Tennessee,

also the southeast, and yes, the northeast.

Right now we have temperatures across northern parts of Minnesota with wind chills dropping down to negative 40 to negative 45.

So as this all pulls together, we're going to start to see some large impacts starting on Friday for the southern plains.

That's where we have the potential for not only ice, but also a lot of snow.

We have a budding tropical system, and get this, a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic.

It has been very quiet thus far for the Atlantic hurricane season.

And now all of a sudden the Atlantic has woken up, something that we have seen in so many seasons.

And I got to tell you, if you live along the southeast coastline, you need to wake up this morning.

Talk to your families about what your plan is going to be.

This is potential tropical cyclone number nine.

There is going to be an impact to the U.S.

most likely, even if it's fringe impacts.

The challenging thing is our computer models.

are completely divided, and we're not going to have clarity until we get farther into this weekend.

The cone right now does call for a Category 1 hurricane staying offshore, but even with that solution, we would have very heavy rainfall that could last for days for the Carolinas.