Heavy freezing rain is impacting Austin, Texas, and much of central Texas Wednesday morning, leading to dangerous travel and rapidly rising power outages.
Multiple rounds of moderate to locally heavy freezing rain are likely in the Austin and San Antonio areas through early this morning, creating the potential for significant icing impacts along the Interstate 35 corridor in central Texas, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Ice accumulations of a quarter to half an inch are expected.
Another round of precipitation is expected again Wednesday evening, potentially as freezing rain with an additional quarter inch of ice possible. Ice over this region should end by late Thursday morning as temperatures warm back above freezing.
Texas has over 200,000 customers without power, according to PowerOutage.us. This is up from 30,000 customer outages just a couple hours earlier.
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