Another round of icy precip heading to Tulsa

TULSA — Tuesday afternoon, localized icy drizzle created chaos on the Inner Dispersal Loop, the highway system surrounding downtown Tulsa.

In a matter of less than three hours, EMSA responded to 19 injury crashes related to the weather.

Saturday promises to be worse, in terms of the amount of precipitation and the length of time it’s expected to remain in the metro area, according to Steve Cobb with the National Weather Service in Tulsa.

“This appears to hit us more square on” than Tuesday’s storm, Cobb told KRMG, “and last potentially a little longer, so it could continue all the way through portions of Saturday night, well after midnight in some cases.”

And the cold will remain in place during the entire event, he added.

“Our temperatures are going to bottom out Saturday morning around 25 degrees, and they might rise to near 30 degrees here in the Tulsa area Saturday afternoon. So that, overall, is not going to provide any chance for the precipitation to change form, it’s still going to be freezing.”

During the event, drivers should assume any wet roads are frozen, and take appropriate precautions.