Saturday Evening Tidbits...

Some quick evening notes here....

• Showers push in to roughly the eastern half of the viewing area Sunday afternoon and evening....but the rain should leave before the atmosphere cools enough for anything wintry.
• The upcoming week will be cold....below average for highs and lows. I still think low to mid 20s Tuesday morning.
• The models can still not figure out how to handle the end of the week possibilities. Today's 0z GFS kept the energy more bundled, and thus, a more impressive late-week system. Other runs shear the energy out and nothing impressive develops. We shall see...
• Had to switch mental gears today...after anchoring the evening weather shift for the Triad Wednesday through Friday, I am back in the Charlotte market today and tomorrow.
  
• Can we please have some sort of college football playoff system. I don't want to hear the excuses....I am tired of having to debate every year who should play for a championship. Every other level of football has playoffs....why can't Division I football???? No, we have to have another year of debating who should play Ohio State......Florida or Michigan??? (assuming Florida holds on to win the SEC champ. game...although it is a dog fight right now)

End of rant.....have a great night!

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The week ahead....

Cold.....that about sums up next week. I think every day from Sunday through at least Friday will likely feature below average high and low temperatures. Look for many highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s next week.

We have two potential storm systems to deal with. The first one is a coastal area of low pressure that will form later Sunday and Sunday night just off of the Carolina coast. I think some showers will be possible over the eastern parts of both the Charlotte and Triad News 14 markets Sunday afternoon and night. And, while it is a close call, I think the rain leaves just prior to the deeper cold air arriving Sunday night. So, at this point, I don't think we have any wintry weather issues with that system. But it is fairly close, and we will watch it.

The second potential storm system is toward the end of the work week. However, that is about the extent of that I can tell you about that system. There are players on the field for a system to posssibly form Thursday or Friday, but whether or not those players come together properly or not remain to be seen. So, stay tuned on that one.

Also, if you remember (and you can read the whole thing by looking in the archives on the right), my forecast for December was for Charlotte to average 0.5 degrees above normal for the month. I still think that forecast is in OK shape. While we will see well below average temps through next week, I think the mid-month period sees a nice warm-up before possibly cooling down again toward Christmas. So, the forecast for December still looks OK right now.

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Impressive dewpoint drops....

The dewpoint at Greensbobo dropped 22 degrees in 2 hours this afternoon (from 62 to 40)....impressive stuff. Charlotte has seen a 24 degree dewpoint drop in 3 hours. Can you tell a cold front has moved through???

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