Now to your weather forecast.
We are reminding you to stay
weather aware all day today.
Taking a live look at Freedom
Boat Club up in Lake Norman,
meteorologist Chris Mulcahy
joins us now with everything you
need to know as a system moves
through our area. Chris.
Yeah. And I, I want to narrow down the
weather aware day because oftentimes,
whenever we're saying this,
that means that we have conditions, right,
for the weather to really turn on us.
Oftentimes, we're waiting most
of the day for that to happen.
That's going to be this case and scenario
that it looks like it's going to rain.
And actually I think we're in a
nice little spot in the afternoon.
Dries out and might even start
to get sunny in a few locations.
That's actually not necessarily a good thing.
The window is actually quite narrow,
but today is also a very windy day as well.
We have a wind advisory that
officially starts in an hour and
14 minutes from 1:00 PM to 1:00 AM,
a 12 hour period.
We could have the winds really
rocking at 20 to 30 mile per hour,
sustained gusts up to 40 to 50 mph,
and there's a high wind warning for
the mountains, and I'll show you why.
Check out these wind gusts throughout the
day, getting up to about 20 to 30 to 35.
Mph heading into the evening hours,
but then it really starts to flourish
later on this evening and overnight
gusts over 50 and sustained winds.
I think you're gonna be even up to that mark.
I think gusts will be over 60 mph for
the mountains and then things eventually
calm down through your Saturday morning.
So today we're looking to high
temperatures in the mid 70s.
There's some very cold air just to the north.
If that had sunk down to the South it would
have busted our severe weather potential.
But everything's coming together
that a line of storms will form
and has formed but they'll move
into the area really by the end of
the afternoon heading into the.
The window of opportunity that I have
for the Charlotte area is narrowed
between about 6:00 to 9:00 o'clock.
But it's right here in this little
oven Mitt like shape here kind
of looks like a slanted heart.
That's where you having the heart of the
beast and the worst severe weather right now.
Multiple severe thunderstorm warnings
are currently in that line so the line
of storms will arrive between 6:00 and
9:00 o'clock for Charlotte it's going
to be a quick moving system so it
could be only a couple of minutes that
the impacts of strong winds spin up
tornadoes and heavy rain is going to be felt,
but it only takes those few
minutes for damage to be done.
Here's the problem.
As I mentioned,
there's a chance that we might
even brighten up the sky if it
turns beautiful later on today.
That's not necessarily a good thing
because that's going to destabilize the
atmosphere and that's going to make
the storm fuel more prevalent for when
the line actually collides into us,
the mountains.
You're looking at a better case
in scenario because I think rain
is going to stick around
with you a little bit earlier.
But here's the main event.
5 to 10 o'clocks the window
across the entire area.
As I mentioned, 6 to 9 for Charlotte.
Here's the line of storms is the
chance on some of these bookends,
some of these spaces that you have.
Spin up Tornado type of scenario
especially off towards the West of I-77.
But really anyone around the Charlotte
area need to be advised the current
timing has this a little bit closer to
7 to 9 at least here on this model run.
And then by 10:00 o'clock I think
everything's pretty much passed and gone.
The line is going to get much weaker.
So our current tornado threat in this five
percentile right now showing the Charlotte,
Concord, Salisbury,
all areas to the West are included
Asheville under a high threat,
so the chance that they'll be active
tornado warnings working into the Carolinas.
Just a few hours from now and
we'll be tracking that line.
Once it gets a little bit closer.
You can see our tornado parameter.
Whenever these numbers turn to even a .1,
it catches our attention.
Once they get to twos, threes, fours,
5 sixes, that's off the charts.
What that means is you're looking at a
really high twist of the atmosphere,
a lot of rotations.
That means we have a chance
for multiple spin up tornadoes.
So please be weather aware.
Hopefully everything is just going to
be a bust as far as any of that goes,
but a strong line of storms moving through.
Definitely going to be some wind edge.
The good news is sunshine always
follows rain. Look at that sunshine.
We have the mid 60s on Saturday,
Lower 70s on Sunday,
so a sensational first weekend of March.
That's what you like to see.
Our guy roofing 7 day forecast shows
the 70s aren't going away yet.
We have Monday and Tuesday.
The last hurrah before another strong
cold front brings us rain and boom
back down to the 50s on Thursday.
Even highs in the 40s heading
into the second weekend of March.