Snow, sleet and freezing rain — those were the main players Friday night and Saturday as Union County and the rest of the Upstate found themselves smack dab in the middle of their first taste of winter.

A powerful storm system moved in bringing with it all three of those frozen types of precipitation.

Old Man Winter blew in Friday night and dumped an inch or less of snow on several spots around Union County including Buffalo, Jonesville and Lockhart. As the night wore on, however, that snow changed to sleet and eventually freezing rain that covered the ground and glazed over everything — including roads.

Fortunately, the area saw little to no complications due to the storm.

Union Public Safety Department Chief Sam White said Monday his department responded to several incidents where vehicles slid off the road and needed a tow to pull them back on but he reported no one was injured in any of those calls and no serious accidents were reported.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office also reported no major issues because of the storm.

White said a tree at Foster Park also split and fell into the road and needed to be cleared away as a result of the weather but it did not block the entire road.

City of Union Utility Director Joe Nichols reported no major power outages due to the storm.

“We had very little issue with power during the sleet and ice,” he said. “We fared very well.”

The power issues his department responded to were localized and sporadic. Nichols said there were reports of a few limbs down that caused some minor problems, but nothing major. He credited the city’s continued effort to clear rights of way of tree limbs and branches as the reason there were no major issues.

The winter storm that caused the National Weather Service to place much of the Upstate and western North Carolina under a winter storm warning Friday and Saturday acted exactly how forecasters expected.

“There were very few surprises with it,” said Larry Gabrick, a meteorologist at the Greenville-Spartanburg National Weather Service office.

He said it might not have produced as much snow, sleet or freezing rain forecasters were expecting for the southern periphery of the office’s zone, but the storm behaved “pretty much the way it was supposed to.”

Aside from the snow, Gabrick said other locations reported between one-tenth and one-quarter inch of ice and other called in with more than an inch of sleet accumulation. Gabrick said Richburg reported two inches of sleet from the storm.

The melting process began Sunday as the sun returned and temperatures climbed above freezing. Most of the snow, sleet and ice were gone as of Monday afternoon but another system moved into the area overnight and brought the rain area motorists dealt with on the way to the office Tuesday morning and throughout the day.

Union County will see a brief reprieve in stormy activity Wednesday and during the day Thursday under mostly sunny or partly cloudy skies but another storm system could impact the area by the end of the week.

“There’s always another storm on the horizon,” Gabrick said. “Especially when you’re in an El Nino.”

He said while today’s weather came in the form of rain a system that will impact the area Friday and Saturday this week could offer another bag of mixed precipitation favors.

Gabrick said the storm will begin as rain but it could transition into another round of sleet or snow on Saturday before it moves out of the Upstate.

“The details are still kind of sketchy at this point,” he said.

What kind of precipitation falls depends on several factors including the temperatures at the time and exact track of the storm.

But forecasters should have a better handle on what the next winter storm will do by Wednesday or Thursday.

“It should become better in focus by mid-week,” Gabrick said.