DaytonDailyNews.com

Motorists should be on the lookout for slippery roads Friday, Nov. 21, as snow showers continue through the morning and temperatures stay below freezing all day.

And you can look forward tonight to the coldest temperatures since early March as thermometers across the Miami Valley dip to about 17 degrees, according to predictions from the National Weather Service.

Driving proved treacherous Thursday evening as a section of U.S. 35 in West Dayton froze over leading to half a dozen accidents with three people injured badly enough to be taken to area hospitals. Both sides of the highway in the area of Gettysburg Avenue and Liscum Drive had to be closed around 8 p.m.

Similar conditions may be in place Friday morning. Temperatures at daybreak will be in the low 20s, and there's a 30 percent chance of snow. The temperature will rise no higher than 31 on Friday, and a stiff breeze out of the northwest at 10 to 13 miles an hour with gusts up to 24 will make the day feel even colder.

Friday night will be partly cloudy with a low around 17 and a west wind between 3 and 9 miles an hour.

Saturday will be partly sunny with a high near 37. Saturday night will turn mostly cloudy with a low around 21.

Things will warm up a bit Sunday when it will be mostly sunny with a high near 45, but there will be a south wind between 6 and 13 miles an hour with gusts as high as 23. Sunday night brings a 40 percent chance of rain showers between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. and a low around 33.