Forecasters are warning of an extended cold snap in the Tri-State, starting this holiday weekend. WNIN’s John Gibson has the latest:
Before temperatures started to fall on Friday, high winds brought down tree limbs and power lines leading to outages in the Evansville area.
More than 2,400 CenterPoint customers were without electricity at one point Friday morning.
Crews restored power to those customers but dealt with scattered outages throughout the day.
A rare High Wind Warning remains in effect for the area until midnight.
Heavy rains also flooded some roads in the Tri-State.
The National Weather Service says the rain will be followed by Arctic air that will change rain to light snow in some places before it ends.
Forecasters say we`ll begin the weekend with a six-day stretch of temperatures below the freezing mark.
Our coldest nights will see lows in the single digits and subzero wind chills.
The weather service says the extended cold snap will be dangerous to those without adequate shelter and will likely challenge plumbing and other cold-sensitive infrastructure.
Accumulating snow remains possible Sunday night and Monday.