The ABC11 First Alert Weather Team is alerting everyone to the possibility of wintry precipitation starting Fri evening or night as light snow. It will change over to sleet and freezing overnight, and it will only rain by midday on Saturday. The exact transition for central North Carolina is still being tracked by ABC11 meteorologists.

▪ If the storm’s center tracks near the North Carolina coast — say, 50 to 100 miles off shore — that would allow for more sustained northerly winds over the Piedmont and a more prolonged period of snow there. The Coastal plan might see snow in that case, but along the coast it would be mostly rain.