Here comes the rain...

Showers are with us this morning, but the rain will become widespread this afternoon and continue through a good deal of tonight. Most rainfall amounts should be between 1 and 2 inches, but some spots could locally approach 3 inches. I don't think flash flooding will become a major issue, but some swollen creek and stream beds are likely.

The rain will exit by about daybreak Saturday, and a nice weekend is on the way. Sunshine builds in by tomorrow afternoon and will last through Sunday as well. Highs will be in the low to mis 60s. It will be rather breezy tomorrow with winds gusting out of the northwest to 25mph or so at times. Up in the mountains, wind gusts to 50mph or greater are possible tomorrow.

Halloween still looks nice with highs in the lower 70s and trick-or-treating temps in the 50s.

Our next cold front will move through about Thursday, and I still don't think the models have a good handle on the amount of cold air coming behind that front. I have gone colder with my high and low temperatures for the end of the week than numerical guidance indicates in anticipation that the models are not grasping the depth and strength of next week's cold shot. We shall see....

My family continues to battle some minor illness issues. My biggest problem is a sore throat, which makes talking tough at times....good for my profession, huh? So far though, it has not been a huge deal thankfully. For whatever reason, the illness has really messed up our youngest daughter's sleeping at night. She was wide awake and stunbling around with me at 2:00 this morning as I am trying to shake off the night's sleep and get moving. Anyway....

Everyone have a great day. Stay dry and warm!

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Good Morning!

Back in the early AM seat today for the Charlotte market....will do the same tomorrow. I am really struggling with fatigue this morning. Both of our children are battling some sort of cough, runny-nose thing...the worst symptom they have is a lot of coughing at night. Bless her heart...our youngest just could not stop coughing last night. I might have gotten an hour of sleep, and poor thing, when I left, I don't think she or my wife had gotten much more. So, hopefully some serious nap time coming this afternoon!

At any rate, lots of clouds today, then rain arrives late tonight through tomorrow morning. Tomorrow will be a rainy, chilly, raw kind of day with highs struggling to reach the low to mid 50s. The rain will continue into tomorrow night, and I think most of us will see between 1 and 3 inches of rain before it ends early Saturday morning. So, another soaker on the way.

The weekend will be dry, and the dry weather looks to extend right into the first of next work week as well. For Halloween, lots of sun appears on the way with highs in the upper 60s. For the trick-or-treaters Tuesday evening, temps look to fall into the 50s.

Also, a reminder.....Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend. So, set your clocks an hour back before you head to bed Saturday night.

Looking down the road a bit, I still get the idea that we will see another push of cold air sometime later next week. The models are not very impressive with the cold air push right now, but I think they will come around in time.

Everyone have a great day today!

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Brrr....

I am loving this early-season cold weather! Lows were in the upper 20s to lower 30s this morning. The Charlotte airport hit 28 degrees...breaking the old record low for today of 31. CLT's record low tomorrow is 28...I think we will be close to that again tonight. Fireplaces getting an early-season work-out!

Massive storm system will cross the nation later this week. For us, showers and storm will spread in during the later Thursday through Friday time period. This system has potential to be a big severe weather maker from the Lower Mississippi Valley through the Southeast. We will have to see how things line up here to see if that is a threat. On the cold side of that system, snow will fall in the northern Plains into the Great Lakes region.

Overall cool weather looks to continue deep into next week with another shot of cold air arriving as next week progresses.

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Cold shot is here...

Temperatures remained in the 50s for most today in spite of all-day sunshine. I think we will be just as cool, if not a touch cooler, for highs tomorrow.

Tonight, a freeze is on the way. Look for upper 20s to lower 30s area-wide, so any unprotected plants will likely not survive the night. We will likely be just as cold tomorrow night as well.

Up in the mountains, the temp at the summit of Grandfather is 18 degrees as I am typing this, and their high was only 27 today! Up at Snowshoe Mountain, they have seen an inch of snow today. Below is a picture from this afternoon courtesy of Andrea Smith.

Stay warm...

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