Cold Today, Weekend Snow Potential

• Freezing temps to start the morning
• Sunny, but cold day
• Warmer through the end of the week
• Mountain Snow Late Thursday
• Snow for Charlotte this weekend?

High pressure will keep things sunny, dry, and cold through mid-week. Highs today will reach the mid-40s with just a light breeze out of the northeast. Overnight lows will once again tumble into the low 20s, but it will be warmer through the rest of the week. Sunny with seasonable highs in the low 50s Wednesday afternoon. High pressure will lose its grip on the region as it moves off the coast, allowing for a series of disturbances to glide into the area. The first will arrive Thursday. This will bring more clouds and slightly warmer temps to the region. However, outside a dusting of snow for the mountains Thursday night, the moisture is just not there for any beneficial precip outside the mountains.

Things get interesting this weekend. Temps will plummet this weekend with highs only reaching the mid-40s Saturday afternoon. To get snow in Charlotte having moisture to tap into and cold air already in place is a must. That will definitely be the case with lows falling to the low to mid-20s overnight. A disturbance will track into the region, the question now is how much snow could we get? Run to run the Euro has been bringing snow as far south as the I-85 corridor Saturday night into early Sunday. The GFS is now aggressively getting on board with this trend with record snowfall totals projected. In both scenarios, cold air will already be in place with plenty of moisture to tap into. However, the setup of the low and how quickly it moves through is still questionable. Consistency between models is still needed. Prepare for this forecast to be tweaked over the next few days with things still too uncertain to forecast any snowfall totals. But, some form of wintry weather is looking more and more likely. We will continue to monitor for our first snowfall above 1″ since December of 2017 in the coming days…