Road conditions remain slick as sleet and snow continue to fall in the Norman area.
As of noon Tuesday, Norman had received 1.1 inches of sleet covering 1/5 of an inch of ice, said National Weather Service forecaster Erin Maxwell.
While precipitation is slowing down, the snow and sleet are not expected to stop falling completely until later tonight, Maxwell said.
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Maxwell said the temperature is expected to remain below freezing throughout the night and into the early morning Wednesday. It is not expected to be above freezing until Wednesday afternoon.
“With no melting today, the roads are going to remain slick all throughout the night tonight,” she said.
National Weather Center meteorologist Alex Lamers said anyone who goes out should have the proper winter weather supplies such as an ice scraper and small shovel in their trunk.
“Drivers should slow down more at curves and especially bridges and also leave lots of stopping distance,” Lamers said. “Most winter accidents are caused by drivers who do not give enough stopping distance between the cars in front of them, so if a car in front needs to stop, they won’t be able to stop in time to prevent an accident.”
Journalism graduate student Darcy Delaney said in an e-mail she and her boyfriend were in a car accident yesterday afternoon while trying to go home.
“We [Delaney and her boyfriend] just have a few scrapes and bruises, but are fine,” Delaney said in an e-mail. “We were only going about 30 mph. I am sure if we were going any faster it would have been bad.”
OG&E reported power outages in and around Muskogee with a few power outages in the OKC Metro area. None were reported in the Norman area, OG&E spokesman Brian Alford said.
“It is not nearly as bad as it was last year,” when an ice storm knocked out power across the state, Alford said. “There has been less ice accumulation and the shift from ice to sleet during the night last night helped tremendously.”
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