{"id":439736,"date":"2026-01-30T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:11:16","slug":"south-carolina-snow-storm-snow-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439736\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina snow storm: Snow timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbefore 1am, then a chance of snow after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. Northeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than THIS IS A GOOD. 66. THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD BET. LAKE LURE GET CLOSER TO EIGHT INCHES. THE BIG DEAL IS GOING TO BE THE DANGEROUS TRAVEL. THE ROADS ARE GOING TO BECOME VERY TREACHEROUS FROM THE GET GO. THIS IS GOING TO TURN SLIP SLIPPERY FAST WITH THIS KIND OF SNOW ACCUMULATING TO THESE KIND OF LEVELS AND THE COLD, IT IS EQUALLY AS DANGEROUS. LOOK AT THIS SATURDAY WHEN YOU\u2019RE OUT PLAYING, IT\u2019S GOING TO FEEL LIKE THE TEENS GETTING INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS BY 430. KIDS NEED TO TAKE A BREAK, GO AND GET WARM. GO BACK OUT SIX DEGREES. THE FEELS LIKE TEMPERATURE AT 430 IN GREENVILLE AND IT DOESN\u2019T STOP THERE. WE\u2019RE UNDER AN EXTREME COLD WARNING. WE HAVEN\u2019T BEEN THIS COLD IN A WHILE, FOLKS. -20 IN ASHEVILLE SUNDAY MORNING FOR A FEELS LIKE MINUS TWO IN SPARTANBURG. SO THE FOUR DAY PLUS LOOKS LIKE THIS. WE\u2019VE GOT LOTS OF CHANGES COMING OUR WA\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIt’s the question most people are asking: When will the snow start in the Upstate area of South Carolina? Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus is offering this timeline: Friday: 5 p.m\u20138 p.m.: Mountain snow begins \u2014 1\u20132″Saturday3 a.m.\u20136 a.m.: Upstate snow begins \u2014 1″ \u2014 24\u00b08 a.m.: Snow spreads south \u2014 24\u00b011 a.m.: Heavy snow, peak of storm \u2014 3″2 p.m.: Snow continues \u2014 4\u20135″ \u2014 23\u00b04 p.m.: Snow showers \u2014 5\u20136″ \u2014 20\u00b06 p.m.: Snow turns lighter \u2014 as much as 7″ \u2014 19\u00b0 (Wind chill: 8\u00b0)Sunday: Morning: 9\u00b0 (Feels like: -3\u00b0)Afternoon.: Sunny 29\u00b0Monday:Morning.: Hard freeze \u2014 11\u00b0Afternoon.: Some melting \u2014 39\u00b0Tuesday: Morning: Refreeze \u2014 16\u00b0Other weather resources: Alerts in your area | Closings | Radar | Maps showing temperature, winds speeds, etc. | Skycams | Live coverageAbout the WYFF News 4 weather team:The WYFF News 4 weather team has been independently certified for having the most accurate forecast in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market for the second year in a row.\u201cOur goal every day, in every forecast is accuracy,\u201d said WYFF 4 President and General Manager Blake Bridges. \u201cOur expert weather team is dedicated to giving viewers a forecast they can trust to be right. We are also the only station in the market with our own 24\/7 live radar, Live Super Doppler 4. It\u2019s clear that WYFF News 4 is the weather leader in this market.\u201dThe certification comes from WeatheRate, an independent research firm that tracks forecasts from every station in multiple markets across the country.\u201cEveryone knows that forecasting the weather around here is difficult with the Upstate and mountains,\u201d said WeatheRate President Bruce Fixman. \u201cThe station that gets the forecast right more than anyone else is Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus and the WYFF News 4 weather team.\u201dMeet the Team: Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus Meteorologist Victoria Kokinos Meteorologist Bradford Ambrose Meteorologist Grace Lowe\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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It’s the question most people are asking: When will the snow start in the Upstate area of South Carolina? <\/p>\n

Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus is offering this timeline: <\/p>\n

Friday: 5 p.m\u20138 p.m.: Mountain snow begins \u2014 1\u20132″Saturday
3 a.m.\u20136 a.m.: Upstate snow begins \u2014 1″ \u2014 24\u00b08 a.m.: Snow spreads south \u2014 24\u00b011 a.m.: Heavy snow, peak of storm \u2014 3″2 p.m.: Snow continues \u2014 4\u20135″ \u2014 23\u00b04 p.m.: Snow showers \u2014 5\u20136″ \u2014 20\u00b06 p.m.: Snow turns lighter \u2014 as much as 7″ \u2014 19\u00b0 (Wind chill: 8\u00b0)<\/p>\n

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Sunday: Morning: 9\u00b0 (Feels like: -3\u00b0)Afternoon.: Sunny 29\u00b0Monday:Morning.: Hard freeze \u2014 11\u00b0Afternoon.: Some melting \u2014 39\u00b0Tuesday: Morning: Refreeze \u2014 16\u00b0<\/p>\n

Other weather resources: Alerts in your area<\/a> | Closings<\/a> | Radar<\/a> | Maps showing temperature, winds speeds, etc.<\/a> | Skycams | Live coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the WYFF News 4 weather team:<\/p>\n

The WYFF News 4 weather team has been independently certified for having the most accurate forecast in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson market for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal every day, in every forecast is accuracy,\u201d said WYFF 4 President and General Manager Blake Bridges. \u201cOur expert weather team is dedicated to giving viewers a forecast they can trust to be right. We are also the only station in the market with our own 24\/7 live radar, Live Super Doppler 4. It\u2019s clear that WYFF News 4 is the weather leader in this market.\u201d<\/p>\n

The certification comes from WeatheRate, an independent research firm that tracks forecasts from every station in multiple markets across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knows that forecasting the weather around here is difficult with the Upstate and mountains,\u201d said WeatheRate President Bruce Fixman. \u201cThe station that gets the forecast right more than anyone else is Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus and the WYFF News 4 weather team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meet the Team:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"before 1am, then a chance of snow after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. Northeast wind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[203974,203984,167488,14854,4,450,39079,203960,60452,32309,13715,275,203985,11315,181467,2310,681,203972,451,203978,23661,207477,203980,2483,203961,203962,203981,125000,203975,22873,203983,203979,207475,15836,12347,207481,203971,48527,207472,3,6295,7699,2256,203973,207476,14797,207473,18688,203963,60352,24338,2862,6318,51611,207479,203301,60376,203964,203965,203966,203967,5614,203977,8915,62656,28004,207480,452,453,89747,46403,2427,7246,13790,28013,207474,203959,60456,203976,202767,43832,207478,18775,203982,203968,33409,148929,203969,202770,171964,203970,182401,115448,29438],"class_list":["post-439736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-accurate-forecast","tag-additional-precipitation","tag-arctic-air","tag-area","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-carolinas","tag-chief-meteorologist","tag-chris-justus","tag-condition","tag-content","tag-day","tag-early-next-week","tag-forecast","tag-freezing-rain","tag-friday","tag-georgia","tag-greenville-spartanburg-asheville-anderson-market","tag-headlines","tag-heavy-sleet","tag-high-risk","tag-high-snow-total","tag-high-impact-winter-storm","tag-ice","tag-ice-greenville","tag-ice-storm","tag-ice-storm-impact","tag-inch","tag-inch-upstate","tag-late-sunday","tag-late-total","tag-light-snow","tag-measurable-snow","tag-model","tag-models","tag-more-temperatures","tag-most-model","tag-mountain","tag-mountain-friday","tag-news","tag-next-day","tag-next-week","tag-north-carolina","tag-only-station","tag-p-m-refreeze","tag-part","tag-possible-early-wednesday-morning","tag-potential","tag-potential-winter-weather","tag-power-line","tag-rain","tag-road","tag-saturday","tag-saturday-night","tag-several-inch","tag-sleet","tag-snow","tag-snow-chances-greenville","tag-snow-greenville","tag-snow-in-south-carolina","tag-snow-potential","tag-south-carolina","tag-storm-evolution","tag-sunday","tag-sunday-night","tag-temperature","tag-timing","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-total","tag-totals","tag-travel","tag-tree","tag-triad","tag-upstate","tag-upstate-area","tag-upstate-snow","tag-victoria-kokinos","tag-weather-leader","tag-weather-team","tag-weekend","tag-weekend-snow","tag-western-north-carolina","tag-widespread-power-outage","tag-will-it-snow-this-weekend","tag-wind","tag-winter-storm","tag-winter-storm-south-carolina","tag-winter-storm-watch","tag-winter-weather","tag-winter-weather-south-carolina","tag-wintry-mix","tag-wyff","tag-wyff-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}