(PINPOINT WEATHER) — Thursday starts off frigid and bitter cold as lows have plummeted into the low 20s around uptown and into the single digits for our mountain counties. Winds are biting extra hard for our higher elevations as wind chills have been seen as low as negative double digits this morning!
A Cold Weather Advisory is in effect for Ashe, Avery, & Watauga counties, with the bitter cold temperatures causing some potential concerns. Snow flurries will linger in the mountains this morning before tapering off later in the morning and early afternoon.
Thursday will be cold as highs only touch the 40s around uptown and stay limited to the 20s in our mountains. Winds will be breezy out of the north-northwest between 5 and 10 miles per hour and gust as fast as 20 miles per hour at times.
Tonight will be frigid again with cold weather locked in. A low-pressure system tracking out of the Gulf of Mexico will approach the southeast, delivering a winter storm that will greatly impact our central plains, the Tennessee Valley Region and the Carolinas.
Friday and Saturday will be PINPOINT WEATHER ALERT days as snow, ice and rain will all be likely heading into the weekend.
Look for snow to start west of I-77 with some rain mixed in late Friday morning and early in the afternoon. Snow should take over for uptown and points north while areas south of I-85 likely see more rain than snow through the afternoon.
Rain and snow will transition into freezing rain as we approach later Friday afternoon and evening. The ice will intermittently linger overnight into Saturday, leaving behind a glaze and hazardous travel for Saturday morning.
Snow totals will likely be less than an inch around uptown but still have the potential to end the 1,000-day-plus snow drought for Charlotte. Our mountain counties can see a higher amount, somewhere between 2”–4”. When it comes to the ice, I think we’ll see a light glaze at best to a 0.25 inch of ice south and east of Uptown.
Saturday will hold on to a few lingering snow showers in our western-facing slopes with cold air sticking around for the rest of the weekend. The 40s will finish off the weekend and kick off the work week with dry, sunny and below-normal conditions lasting through Wednesday.
Today: Clear & Cold. High: 40.
Tonight: Frigid with Building Clouds. Low: 20.
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