And as we get ready to take a look
at your forecast courtesy of science,
a big concern for many the
constant changes in temperature.
A lot of folks we know are enjoying
the unseasonably warm temperatures,
some not enjoying,
but it really hasn't been great for
some farmers and nursery owners.
They say the drastic temperature
swings are affecting business.
So it actually affects us honestly
because we did lose a lot of plants since
we did have that one or two weekends.
That was really cold outside and
we were expecting it to be warmer.
Ended up losing those indoor tropical plants,
so we had to make more new ones and
then now if it gets colder then we're
gonna have to put them up again.
Umm, back and forth, back and forth.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a big downside.
I mean, it really hasn't.
It's been pretty warm consistently.
The problem is we know we're probably
going to get a froster freeze. Yeah.
Aren't ready this early and then
false like two months away almost.
Yeah. You just, it's just too early.
And you're really worried about
the fruit growers and this region.
Apples, Peaches, cherries,
those are really susceptible.
They get a hard freeze.
Now when these blooms are out,
lose 90% of your crop.
There's not much you can do for the trees.
They can't cover them up. So it's a big.
Issue but tonight it was nice out.
I hope you got outside and checked out
some of the planet viewing the moon.
Jupiter and Venus were just gorgeous in
the western sky tonight after sunset.
They were beautiful.
You missed it.
I got out there, got some nice pictures.
You could see the Crescent moon,
there's Jupiter and there's Venus.
But what's really cool is when you
zoom in close to the moon in Jupiter
and this is just with regular camera,
you can see the earth shine.
That's actually the reflection of
the sunlight off the earth back
to the moon that illuminates it.
Just enough so that you could see
the the whole lunar disc there,
but also see that those are the
Galilean moons around Jupiter.
You can see those with binoculars.
So you can see the large moons
that are actually orbiting around
the giant planet that is Jupiter.
Kind of cool to see it side by side with
our moon here closer to Earth tonight.
We've got those high clouds
moving across the sky,
really feels like April or may out there.
I mean the overnight low is just ridiculous,
the fact that we're only going
to drop into the mid 60s,
which is 30 degrees above average.
Tells you that we're going to
be really warm to start today,
tomorrow,
so it won't take much to get up close
to record high territories with those
mid 60s overnight tomorrow afternoon.
With just a little bit of sunshine,
we don't need a ton.
An hour or two won't take much
to jump up into the low 80s,
which will break all kinds of records.
In fact,
there's four records that
could possibly fall tomorrow.
Record high temperature for the day,
warmest low temperature for the day,
and also two monthly records,
the warmest high and low temperature
ever recorded in the month of February.
145 years of record keeping in Charlotte,
so pretty much unprecedented heat
as we just talked about the plants,
they're just growing too early.
That means allergy seasons off
to a very record,
a very quick and I would
say record early start Elm,
Cedar and Cottonwood off the charts.
We typically don't see this peak
until mid-april, not in mid February.
So in some cases we are running
about two months ahead of schedule
for some of these trees.
Now there will be a slight cooldown
for Saturday northeast winds,
some showers around,
weak area of low pressure,
but here's the good news.
Where Charlotte FC I think by the time the
game starts we're relatively gonna be dry.
I wouldn't say it's gonna be completely dry,
but likely more mist or drizzle.
I'll show you hour by
hour here Friday evening.
Some showers move in with that front
as we go into Saturday morning.
Likely some pockets of rain early Saturday,
but then as the day goes on the rain lets up.
So by 7:00 o'clock kickoffs at 7:30
likely just some drizzle or mist,
but temperatures in the 50s.
So if you go to the game bundle
up temperature around 50,
mostly cloudy spotty area of
drizzle and again winds will
likely be out of the northeast.
5 to 10 we talked about the early warm up.
Remember the average last freeze
in the last 10 years, March 29th,
that's over a month away.
So everything growing now means at
some point, even with an average,
not a late freeze, just an average freeze,
we're going to have some issues.
It's really the warmth that's causing
the problem, not the average freeze date.
It's not like we're going to
have one in late April or May,
which would be incredibly late.
There's a look at the rain
chances going into the weekend.
Again, 50 to 70% chance as
we go into Saturday morning,
your guy roofing seven day.
Forecast Saturday is the one
day we'll have some showers,
but clearing out by evening.
The warm air though, it sticks around.
Not a lot of roller coaster here.
Just one cool day and then the rest,
9 days of warm temperatures.
Unbelievable.
OK. Thank you, Brad.