 Friday, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for our area and response mountaintops spoke with Emergency Management Director, Ney Jackson, about what we can expect from this winter storm. The next 24 hours we're going to see a what I would consider a major swing in the weather. We're going to go from a high today 67-68 degrees to this time tomorrow we're looking at low 30s around 2 to 3 a.m. in Pike County we're going to see a change from a little rain into snow. The snow is going to be very heavy initially because of the the weather we have so much ground warming that it's going to it's going to have to snow a lot before it ever starts sticking and they're saying that the accumulations are going to be anywhere from four to four and a half inches and of course in higher elevations could see up to six inches in Pike County but the thing about it is is it's going to snow a lot more than that because it's going to snow for quite some time before it ever starts sticking so to be able to get six inches of snow it could be snowing what would would have possibly been 10 inches or something like that but it's only going to accumulate to four to six inches according to elevation because of the the ground being so warm it's going to take a lot more longer for it to start actually sticking on the ground. At Pikeville Medical Center we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years as always we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center where cancer can be defeated. Jackson continues to say that with warmer temperatures snow will take time to accumulate and that row crews will be able to pre-treat roads. It like I say it's a drastic swing from 60 plus degrees into the 30s and all the way down into the teens and then back up into the 40s on sunday and into the 60s on monday so you're going to see you're going to see accumulating snow but it's going to be more of a heavy wet snow as well so need to pay attention to trees power lines hopefully we don't get any we don't get any outages tree falls or anything like that on lines that would create any inclement problems for the residents. Lastly Jackson says to monitor conditions and to wait to travel for more weather updates you can visit mountaintopnews or weather.gov for the latest information for mountaintopnews I'm Joel Chorjol