CLAY COUNTY, N.C. – Two separate systems are expected to move through the area over the course of the next 24-hours, producing light snow showers.

The chance of snow and rain this afternoon is mainly before 3 p.m. Tonight, except more potential snow after 8 p.m. with rain and no before then. The weather service predicts little to no accumulation.

U.S Hwy. 441/ Newfound Gap Road is closed from Gatlinburg, Tenn. to Cherokee County, N.C. due to snow/ice.

The National Weather Service out of Morristown, Tenn. has issued this following hazardous weather outlook for Clay County.

Two separate systems will bring snow today and tonight. The first
will arrive this morning and continue into the early afternoon,
with a trace to up to an inch on the plateau and 1-3 inches over
the mountains of East Tennessee and southwest Virginia above 2500
feet. Only a trace to a tenth of an inch is expected in the lower
elevations.

The second system will come yonight through early Saturday
morning, which could produce another trace to up to an inch on
the plateau and 2 to 4 inches across the eastern mountains above
2500 feet. Accumulations in the lower elevations will again only
range from a trace to a tenth or two. A winter weather advisory
has been issued for the higher elevations of the East Tennessee
and southwest Virginia mountains from Friday morning through
Saturday morning.