Chilly, breezy, lingering showers...

After soaking rains last night, we are now on the northwest side of an area of low pressure. The result today will be chilly, breezy conditions with some showers from time to time. Temps will only be in the 50s today and winds will gust over 20 and 30mph at times.

A dry but chilly weekend is on tap with lots of sun and highs in the low to mid 50s tomorrow and mid to upper 50s Sunday. Highs return to the 60s next work week.

Our next system will then bring some rain chances back to the region by Wednesday night and Thursday.

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Next system knocking on our door....

Here is the precip forecast from the HPC for the next 48 hours....the heaviest rain in much of NC will be later tonight into early Friday.

Here is today's edition of the video...


We are squeezing in one more day today with sunshine and highs in the 60s prior to the arrival of our next storm system. A potent upper level low is approaching from the west, and we will see rain arrive as soon as later this evening in the Piedmont....sooner in the mountains.

The rain could be heavy at times later tonight into early Friday, and then some rain will linger off and on through much of Friday.

Rainfall amounts look pretty generous for much of North Carolina with this system....maybe widespread amounts of 0.75"-2" across the region.

The system will be gone in time for a dry, albeit fairly chilly, weekend. Saturday will feature sun but highs in the 50s.

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More sunshine, but next system arrives Thursday night

Here is today's edition of video....



Check out a couple of traffic cam shots from Denver early this morning....near white-out conditions. This is the same system that will arrive into our region tomorrow night.



We will continue to have a sunny sky across the region today with highs warming into the 60s, and conditions will really be much the same tomorrow.

Our next system will then arrive tomorrow night and spread rain into the region. It appears that the rain and clouds will linger for much of Friday as a potent upper level low moves through.

Behind that system, look for cool, dry weekend conditions with some 50s for highs Saturday and 60s Sunday.

Next week....

I still expect a nice warm-up for a portion of next week with highs warming toward the lower 70s the first few days of the work week.

There remain some signs of blocking setting up at some point toward mid-month, which, if that occurs, would allow for a charge of arctic air into the US. However, I don't yet have a good feel on the timing of that.

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A sunny start to November...

The low that brought some soaking rains to eastern NC and southeast VA continues to pull away, and in the wake of that system, the region will have full sun today and tomorrow. Afternoon highs will get a little milder overall with some low and mid 60s the next couple of days.

Our next system will swing in here by Thursday night. Look for some good rain chances with that one by Thursday afternoon in the mountains and then Thursday night for the Piedmont.

It still appears that system will depart in time for a lot of sun on Saturday.

October....

Temperatures for the month of October were a bit below average across the region as a whole. Most observing sites recorded monthly temps on the order of 1-2 degrees below average.

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Nothing too spooky...

An area of low pressure will slide by off of the Carolina coast later today and this evening. The result will be some rain making it into eastern parts of the region this afternoon into early this evening. I expect the majority of the rain will only make it about as far west as I-95, but some modeling is further west than than, so I can't completely rule out a brief bit of rain this afternoon as far west as maybe Union, Montgomery, Randolph, or Alamance counties. Highs today will be in the 50s.

For the Charlotte and Triad viewing areas, the forecast for trick-or-treating looks fine with evening temps slipping into and through the 40s.

Look for lots of sun tomorrow and Wednesday with highs in the 60s. Rain will return by Thursday night into Friday, but at this time, the weekend forecast again looks dry.

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