Welcome back.
Turning now to your weekend forecast.
Live pictures this morning
from King Street in Boone.
Not too many folks out there.
Just as Brittany was
mentioning before break.
It is chilly here,
but it is even more chilly
up in the mountains. Yeah,
if I had a wind chill of nine degrees,
I'd probably be hibernating for the winter.
Honestly. Absolutely. That's the truth.
Yeah, they're temperature is 25,
but with the wind, it's the wind
chill is 9 bundle out there right now.
And of course, we know a lot of
cold air is in the forecast not
just for this upcoming week,
but for Christmas week and especially,
in fact, right now,
they're feeling like the single digits
Boone and Jefferson could see lows in
the single digits this time next week,
which means they could feel below.
So this is your warning now?
Yeah. Yes, sure.
I would say, and honestly,
I said this earlier, breed,
I know we're talking about it today,
is probably one of the best
days to get out of the week,
even though it is colder. Yeah.
This morning we were in the 20s,
now Charlotte's at 35.
But we can only go up from here,
right?
And a lot of sunshine will allow for
temperatures to warm at least 10 or so
more degrees before the end of the day.
But look at those feels like
temps in the mountains again.
They're at 9 now,
nine likely over the next hour or so.
And those feels like temperatures for a
boon could not get out of the teens today.
Again, those are the feels like
temperatures for the mountains,
not the actual air temp.
The air temperature will be in the upper
20s now here a little bit different,
mid to upper 40s for our air temperature.
But we still have a bit of
a wind chill factor too.
In fact, with our high temperature,
around 47 will likely feel
like the lower 40s.
So it won't be a significant drop,
but at least a few degrees
with all that sunshine.
So keep this in mind as you're
kind of planning your day.
If you plan on being inside,
probably not as much of an impact, right?
But you need to factor in that
walk back to your car, sunshine.
It'll feel at least 5 degrees warmer,
but in the shade a lot, a lot colder.
So whether you're heading out and about
to kind of just enjoy your Sunday or
you're maybe heading to Bank of America.
Media just factored that in.
Now wind gusts locally will be
at around 15 mph at their peak.
That is lower than yesterday.
But again, look at the mountain winds.
I mean they're going to see wind
gusts peaking in the mid 20s,
which is why the wind chill is
so much more significant there
versus where it is here.
And as we go through the next few days,
we'll be in the mid to upper 40s for pretty
much every day from now through Thursday.
I've actually dropped our ten degree or
two just based on the latest model trends.
But Friday,
that's kind of our transitionary
day highs near 40 before we see
all of that cold air spilling
in from the northern half of the really
globe as we get closer to Saturday,
Sunday and beyond,
which of course is Christmas weekend.
Now we've had a lot of question marks
of course with the cold air and the
chance for some rain later on this week.
Could we have.
Wintry mix here in the Charlotte area,
there is still a low chance we're going
to talk more about this coming up,
but it's looking less likely
that snow is in Charlotte,
likely only toward the mountains.
But that first chance for rain
Thursday and into Thursday night,
second opportunity will actually
be Friday morning models really
backing off on the opportunity for
some rain on Christmas Day evening.
So just an update on our latest forecast
trends for Christmas Day lows still
expected to be in the upper teens,
upper teens and lower 20s with highs.
Only in the mid to upper 30s
comparatively to last year,
we were 20 degrees warmer than normal.
This year 20 degrees colder than normal.
Of course, rainfall is on the dry side,
so we're trending downward and the snow
chances to at least have something,
some kind of flake action is
getting even lower too.
Sitting right now at about 2 to 5%,
which I know it's easy to
get excited about that 5%.
But just remember folks that
that's 95% that we see.
This so griver from 7 day forecast,
not trying to burst your bubble just
to kind of trying to bring it back down
to you know the probability there.
But of course Guy Roofing 7 day forecast
shows again that sunshine today,
more clouds on the way Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. So keep that in mind.
Still on the cooler side with
highs in the 40s,
we do see our rainiest day on Thursday.
Chance for a little bit of
a wintry mix Friday morning,
but more likely that black ice
could be an issue due to a refreeze
potential Friday morning and then
we know it is turning a lot.
A lot colder as we enter Christmas weekend.