Temperatures continue to fall across the area. A pocket of warm air aloft is creating patchy areas of freezing rain throughout the River Valley. Numerous accidents are being reported from Sallisaw to Fort Smith. Many accidents are also being reported north from Alma toward Mountainburg where the temperature is at 32 degrees.

Patchy areas of freezing rain are being reported in Washington county, especially south of the Fayetteville area. Sleet and Freezing rain is possible across NW AR this evening with falling temperatures into the lower 30s.