The WXII 12 First Warning Weather Team is carefully monitoring a large winter storm that will impact North Carolina and Virginia on Sunday and Monday. Highs began to fall late last week and several rounds of arctic air will continue to keep temperatures colder than normal for much of January.

A winter weather advisory was issued by the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC on Sunday at 2:29 p.m. The advisory is for Southern Jackson, Greater Burke, Eastern McDowell, Rutherford Mountains and Polk Mountains as well as Buncombe,