A much-anticipated winter storm arrived in North Carolina Wednesday morning, Feb. 19, spreading rain, ice and snow and turning roads into skating rinks.
The first bands of light snow arrived in the morning, followed by heavier precipitation in the afternoon. By 2:30 p.m., U.S. 64 near Knightdale, east of Raleigh, was nearly covered in snow and a wreck had slowed traffic. The state Department of Transportation’s map of real-time traffic conditions showed nearly a dozen crashes across the Triangle. .
Who gets what? Generally, the National Weather Service says , the northern part of the state, along the Virginia border, will see the heaviest snowfall, with 3 to 6 inches possible along the northernmost section of the Interstate 95 corridor. The middle will get the heaviest ice, with up to a quarter-inch possible in areas mostly south and east of Raleigh. Southeastern N.C. will get mostly rain…