As we get ready for the holidays, the weather may not cooperate as a mix of rain and snow appears to be on tap for Christmas Eve.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather advisory starting Thursday night at 7 p.m. and running through Christmas Day at 1 p.m.
The Butler area could receive up to an inch of rain tomorrow, which Meteorologist Scott Harbaugh with our news partners at WPXI-TV says could lead to tricky conditions on Christmas Eve.
“Temperatures are going to go from 40 degrees to about 28 degrees in just a few hours,” Harbaugh said. “So what happens is, that anything that is not treated, all of those wet roads quickly turn into ice because the wind does play a factor in that. Then there will be snow on top of that.”
He says Thursday night will just not be a great time to be out and about.
“Try to be home; try to be to your destination. I know it’s not good on timing as far as church services or family gatherings, but Thursday night after 7 p.m. is just not going to be good at all, especially once we get an inch or two of snow on that in about an hour to an hour and a half.”
Harbaugh also says we’re probably looking at a White Christmas.
“When it’s Christmas Day and the kids are hankering to get downstairs, I think we’ll have around 2 to 4 inches of snow at that point,” Harbaugh said. “It’ll probably pick up a little more during the day on Friday as we start to get some lake effect snow showers. And it could Renfrew getting an inch, and Butler gets nothing. Or Connoquenessing gets an inch and a half and Evans City gets flurries. It’ll be just that kind of day on Friday.”
