The Miami Valley will see some hazardous conditions from rain and freezing on area roads and bridges this Christmas holiday week as a winter storm makes travel difficult.

For Christmas Day, things are looking pretty good. It should be partly sunny, with a high near 39 with northeast winds from five to 10 miles-per-hour.

But early Wednesday morning, however, a storm system should to arrive and deliver a load of snow and ice, perhaps as much as one to three inches of snow before it’s done.

WHIO meteorologist Erica Collura said it should arrive around 3 a.m. or so Wednesday morning. It’ll melt some during the day, but roads will again be hazardous as temperatures get colder. “Roads will be slick Wednesday morning,” she said. “”Wednesday evening will be worse with accumulating snow.”

The center of the storm should track through eastern Ohio and provide a mix of snow and ice tracking along the Interstate 71 corridor, the National Weather Service said.

Travelers should be prepared for delays as the storm system moves across the Lower Mississippi River Valley into the southeast U.S., where damaging winds and large tornadoes are possible, the National Weather Service said.