Breezy and mild today....much colder tomorrow...

Here's today's edition of the video....lots of info in there.



Storm surveys are being conducted today, but it appears a tornado impacted parts of Rutherford and Burke counties yesterday evening. It appears, assuming this is confirmed tornado damage (which photos seem to back up) that this is the first tornado Burke or Rutherford counties have ever recorded in the months of December, January, or February.

An arctic cold front is heading our way and will swing through this evening. Ahead of the front, we get a breezy and mild day with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s and winds gusting over 35mph at times. Up in the mountains, winds will likely gust over 60mph at times.

The foothills and piedmont will have a quick shot of showers this evening with the arctic front. Up in the mountains, a few inches of snow are likely in many spots, and I suppose I can't rule out a snowflake or two in the northern foothills too.

Much colder air will be with us tomorrow into early next week with 40s for highs and 20s for lows.

Another cold front will move through Tuesday bringing some rain chances followed by another push of colder air for Wednesday and Thursday.

Long-term...

Still no changes here. The sustained, really cold air will try to remain bottled up off to our north a lot of the time over the next couple of weeks. However, as we could see the middle of next week, any little disturbance could amplify enough to pull that colder air down our way from time to time.

Also, I still think we will have a chance of some cold air damming episodes at times as high pressure areas build from the northern Plains into the Northeast.