COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – First Alert Weather Days continue for the coldest air of the season and a chance of snow later today.

First Alert Headlines

• First Alert Weather Day: Watching the potential for snow showers in the Midlands starting this afternoon.
• First Alert Weather Days: Wednesday and Thursday remain bitterly cold across South Carolina.

First Alert Summary

Good morning! Dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills remain in effect, which is why the National Weather Service has kept us under a Cold Weather Advisory. Wind chills will stay in the teens through lunchtime. High temperatures today will barely climb above freezing.

Snow showers are likely to return to the Midlands starting this afternoon. The best chance at steady snow will occur this evening and tonight, from about 6 to 10 PM. By 2 AM, the rest of the Midlands will dry out as our storm system moves farther offshore.

In anticipation of snow accumulations, the National Weather Service has added Clarendon, Calhoun, Orangeburg and Aiken Counties into a Winter Storm Warning. These are communities where the highest totals of snowfall are likely to occur.

For the rest of the Midlands, a Winter Weather Advisory has been issued. While accumulations will be a little lower in these towns, enough snowfall is expected to cause travel concerns, especially on back roads and around bridges/overpasses.

Even though we’re dry with sunshine Wednesday morning, First Alert Weather Days will remain in effect. Lows will drop into the teens Wednesday, with highs barely climbing above-freezing. Once again, lows will drop into the teens Thursday morning, meaning additional freezing will occur.

First Alert Forecast

Today (First Alert Weather Day): Cloudy skies, with a few snow showers late in the day. Chance of snow 40%. Highs in the mid-30s.

Tonight (First Alert Weather Day): Scattered snow showers, mainly before Midnight. Chance of snow 60%. Lows in the low-20s.

Wednesday (First Alert Weather Day): A frigid morning with temperatures barely above-freezing in the afternoon. Highs in the mid-30s.

Thursday (First Alert Weather Day): After a bitter cold morning in the teens, highs will rebound to around 40 degrees under mostly cloudy skies.

Friday: Skies clearing to sunshine. Highs in the mid-40s.

Saturday: A few clouds throughout the day. Highs around 50 degrees.

Sunday: Increasing clouds during the afternoon. Highs in the mid-50s.

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Who was the South Carolina Boys Basketball Player of the Week last week?

Each week, High School On SI scours the state of South Carolina and compiles the top performances from the previous week.

Congratulations to last week’s winner: Trinity Delly of Andrew Jackson.

Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26. The winner will be announced in the following week’s poll. Here are this week’s nominees:

Tuthill scored 19 points, grabbed 7 rebounds and had 5 steals as Ashley Ridge toppled No. 1 Summerville 52-48.

The Mississippi signee had another big week, averaging 26.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5 steals in three games.

The junior forward had a huge double-double of 20 points and 20 rebounds as the Crusaders beat Ben Lippen 51-36.

Shaw produced a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds as the Blazers beat Midland Valley 49-32. The sophomore forward/center also had 12 points and 14 rebounds in a 53-46 loss to Atlantic Collegiate Academy.

The 6-foot sophomore scored 21 points and got 12 rebounds in a 53-46 win over Ridge View in the MLK Classic at Eau Claire.

Isaac scored 18 points, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range, as the Diamond Hornets beat A.C. Flora 47-32.

Goodrich scored 12 points to go along with 10 assists and 5 rebounds as the Wildcats edged Dutch Fork 68-66.

Walker scored 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting, while getting 5 rebounds and 5 steals in a 64-12 rout of Brookland-Cayce.

Willis scored 22 points and had 6 rebound as the Eagles overwhelmed St. John’s 121-24. 

Powell scored 26 points, including 6-of-10 from 3-point range, as the Blue Eagles rolled to a 64-30 win over Nation Ford.

Dawn Staley says a clause in her new contract means nothing about how long she’ll be at South Carolina.

Following Sunday’s win over Oklahoma, Staley addressed a section of her extension that she signed to end last week. The deal, which made her the highest-paid coach in the history of women’s basketball at approximately just over $25 million over five years, included a portion where she’d owe them nothing if she were to immediately leave for another job in the NBA or WNBA. When asked about it postgame yesterday, Staley had a little fun with the question.

“I don’t know. I might up and leave,” Staley joked.

In seriousness, Staley explained that everything within the contract, like that clause, was just part of the negotiation for both her and for South Carolina.

“Nah, I mean, you got to have something. It’s a give and take, you know,” said Staley. “Like, like, if, you know, there was – it was important for me to have a guaranteed contract. It’s important, you know. But, in having a guaranteed contract, you got to give them something, you know.”

Still, while she could leave Columbia at any time now because of it, Staley has no interest in doing so. She stated that she’d never leave their program for another college team. She also said, if she had wanted to go to the pros, she would have done so long before now.

“I will never leave here to go take another college job. It’s nothing. Like, I have the best of the best here,” Staley said. “And I really don’t have, um, any – like, I don’t have a passion for the next level. I don’t. I would’ve been gone. Like, seriously, like.”

Staley is in the middle of her 17th season with the Gamecocks with her having posted a winning percentage of .771, including a current record of 18-1. That resumé includes 630 total wins, sixteen conference titles, and a dozen straight berths in the NCAA Tournament with five appearances in the Final Four and three national titles.

With that, Staley is one of the best coaches, regardless of level and men’s or women’s, in basketball. She’ll keep coaching at South Carolina from here on, though, despite that wording in her extension.

“So, to have it in there was – it was just something fancy to have you ask me that question,” again laughed Staley.