Wet Wednesday...

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



A potent upper level low continue to approach the region today. We will continue to see showers at times this morning, then an area of heavier rain and embedded thunderstorms will swing through this afternoon and early evening. A few strong to severe storms can't be ruled out today with the better chances being the farther east and south you live in the region.

There will be a huge spread in temps today around the region with the northern foothills likely remaining in the 40s and southern NC approaching 60 or so.

We will squeeze in a mild and breezy day tomorrow before it turns much colder for Friday into early next week. Looks for lots of 40s for highs and 20s for lows.

As the arctic boundary (and the associated upper level energy) pivot through tomorrow evening, a quick shot of some snow is possible in the mountains with a loose rain shower or two possible in the piedmont.

Next week...

It looks like a fairly weak storm system will try to move in around Tuesday of next week. It is possible that there will be enough cold, dry air as the precip initially moves in for a little brief period of some mixed precipitation, assuming the precip were to move in early enough. But this doesn't look really significant at this point of it occurs at all.

Long range...

Tons of extremely cold arctic air will get shoved into Canada next week....the question is when and how far south does it make it?

Overall, no changes here from me. I expect a lot of the cold air will remain bottled up off to our north. However, with arctic highs moving from the northern Plains into the Northeast, we will have to watch for cold air damming episodes from time to time.

Plus, the arctic will will be quite dense....so it would only take some minor pattern amplifications to send the cold into our region.