Snow, rain and sleet produced messy travel conditions in South

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports on the impact of snow, rain and sleet that are causing messy conditions on the roads and highways in Texas and Oklahoma on Jan. 9-10 during the winter storm.

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00:00It has been a sloppy winter storm for

00:02folks in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.

00:04As we saw rain so sleet we didn't see any

00:07hail but we certainly saw pretty much

00:09every precipitation type you could

00:10squeeze out of a winter storm across

00:13the Dallas Fort Worth metro area.

00:14As we went Thursday into Friday,

00:16will take you back to Thursday when

00:18the height of the storm came Thursday

00:20morning it looked like it was going

00:22to be an all snow event near whiteout

00:25conditions in some cases heavy snow falling.

00:27But as we got into the afternoon,

00:29snow covered right above the freezing mark.

00:32And that meant a transition from all

00:34snow to a mix of snow and sleet and

00:36sometimes even sleet and a very cold,

00:39miserable rain that miserable rain

00:40continued into the evening hours,

00:42even into the overnight hours for a

00:44lot of the Metroplex as we didn't see

00:47temperatures quite get cold enough

00:48to support an all snow events.

00:50Still, though,

00:51accumulations of snow and sleet

00:53totaled anywhere between 3 inches

00:54and 6 inches on the northern half

00:56north of I-20 in the Dallas Fort

00:58Worth Metroplex South.

00:59It was more of a sleet rain sleet mix,

01:01so fortunately though,

01:02most people taking the warnings seriously.

01:04Rush hour was virtually non existent

01:06Thursday even into Friday morning.

01:08Not a lot of cars on the road.

01:10First thing across the border

01:11into Oklahoma.

01:12Different story.

01:13A lot more snow up this way as the

01:15colder air was much more entrenched

01:17up here in Oklahoma and we will

01:19see that snow come to an end as

01:21we get into the evening hours

01:23tonight and remaining cold.

01:25Throughout the weekend,

01:26reporting for Accuweather,

01:27in Ardmore, OK, I'm meteorologist Tony Lawback.

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