Going from ‘chilly’ to ‘super cold’ in time for Christmas

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Excessive stress will settle to our north at present, preserving the area dry and chilly. Highs shall be primarily within the 40s.

• Early Week: Largely dry, chilly 40s
• Late Week: Rain, snow, bitter chilly
• Christmas Weekend: Sunshine, Arctic chill

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We’ll keep dry tonight with lows within the higher 20s to decrease 30s. Clouds will dominate Tuesday, however a lot of the day will keep dry. Late within the day, just a few mild showers will in all probability escape, typically south of Charlotte. Highs will maintain within the chilly higher 40s Tuesday.

Wednesday will carry a mixture of clouds and solar, although a late-day bathe can’t be dominated out. Highs but once more shall be within the chilly higher 40s.

For a wide range of causes, we now have First Alert Climate Days in place Thursday by Christmas Day.

There could also be somewhat wintry combine Thursday alongside and north of Interstate 40, however for many, Thursday will simply be a chilly, moist day with rain and highs within the 40s.

We’re nonetheless on observe to see an arctic air mass transferring into our space beginning on Friday. Rain will linger into early Friday, however because the rain begins to exit, and the arctic air strikes in, the rain will flip to snow within the mountains. It will get extra difficult east of the mountains, the place there might be a short changeover to snow because the advancing chilly air tries to meet up with the exiting moisture. That is nearly all the time a difficult prospect, one which often ends in disappointment for snow lovers, however we’ll maintain monitoring.

The principle concern on Friday would be the chilly, blustery situations that observe the rain. Temperatures will shortly fall from the 30s and 40s through the morning to the kids Friday night time. Winds may even gust over 30 mph at occasions on Friday.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day shall be sunny however frigid, with highs within the 30s and lows within the teenagers.

Hope you may have an awesome week!

Chief Meteorologist Al Conklin

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