Frigid...

Below is today's edition of the Carolina Weather Video...



First of all, I want to thank my buddy Andy Wood for putting up some great content here on the blog while I was away. Interesting stuff. Andy is a meteorologist at the Fox station in Greenville-Spartanburg, and you can read his stuff anytime at the Fox Carolina Weather Blog.

Bundle up.....we are in the grips of another huge blast of true arctic air. We had some light snow pinwheel through yesterday evening, and it was enough to whiten the ground in some spots. However, the cold is the big story.

This is impressive cold, and some Piedmont spots will not see temps above freezing again until Wednesday afternoon. Highs today will struggle to make it into the low to mid 30s, and many spots will do good to see lower 30s tomorrow. It will remain blustery, especially today, with winds gusting to 30 or 35mph.

Overnight lows will dip into the dangerously cold category. Lows tonight and tomorrow night will be in the teens across the Piedmont. When you factor in the wind tomorrow morning, we will be looking at single digit wind chill values.

Next system...

Our next storm system will roll through Wednesday night into Thursday. Now, this does not look to produce huge amounts of precip, however, there is enough there to catch your attention. The airmass across the region, at least initially, will be cold enough to produce a wintry mix with some spots possibly kicking over to rain before the precip ends Thursday.

It is still a bit too early for specifics, but some accumulating wintry precip is possible.

Weekend system???

Various models at various times have produced a big winter storm for parts of the Southeast over the upcoming weekend. However, I have zero confidence in that possibility yet. We are dealing with relatively small-scale features in a fast-moving flow pattern, and any range of possibilities (from cold and dry to significant wintry precip) are on the table. We will see....