And we lost an hour of sleep.
And we lost hour of sleep.
Just a bunch of deprecating facts.
Yes. Ohh. So what you're saying is
we have a case of the Mondays today.
Well, I'm gonna try to literally
brighten up your Monday,
because look at this little spot of blue sky.
It's just one that I'm seeing here in Monroe,
but it is starting a little bit brighter
and we have our head up in the clouds.
Here's Dallas.
There's another hole in the cloud cover.
So that's pointing towards it.
Will get a little bit brighter as
we work our way through the day,
but still a chance for a darker
cloud to provide a sprinkle or two.
I also want to talk about some warm stats.
I love looking up just random
stats of the weather.
So I compiled all the data from
the 1st of January through March
12th and leading up to that point.
That's yesterday.
I didn't put today just because
we don't have today's data fully.
This is the warmest starts of
the year on record in Charlotte,
at least through 71 days,
and we're blowing 1990.
That was the previous warm side
of the water by 1.4 degrees,
so it has been super warm recently.
This brings me up to my next point.
It's been so warm recently.
Things started.
Growing way too early now we're going
to head into a cooler direction,
kind of doing what we should
have been doing during February
during the middle of March.
That can cause some problems.
The only days that are above the normal
of 63 degrees will be on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday,
so at least it'll be a little bit
warmer for your Saint Patrick's Day.
All the other days in the 50s.
Now, if you factor in the lows,
well,
this isn't good since things
are starting to flower now.
Whenever you have temperatures
drop down to about 28 degrees,
that's a moderate freeze that
can affect some things,
especially if you have any fruit.
Plant so the reason why the National
Weather Service started the growing
season earlier to lead to the
Frost Freeze program is to let us
know to protect our plants anytime
temperatures drop down below freezing.
That could be an issue.
So we have a freeze warning that
starts at 11:00 PM tonight.
That goes until 11:00 AM tomorrow.
It's going to be quite chilly
night after night after night,
three nights in a row that we're dropping
down to that freezing point and below.
High temperatures today getting
around 60 degrees down to the South,
but with winds flowing out of the northwest,
it is a cold day up in the mountains,
39 degrees.
But you still have the diehards up here.
Well,
you can't see him anymore cause some
snow physically sticking to the lens,
but it's cloudy up there.
It's breezy up there with a few snow
flurries also coming down as well.
So look at our futurecast.
You see a chance and maybe a
flurry up in the mountains,
maybe a stray sprinkle down to the South.
But we are seeing the breaks in the clouds.
I'm not calling it complete,
it's all blue sky for everyone now.
Some areas I think there'll be nice little
corridor or clearing happening around I-40.
Some of us will see just spots of blue
skies we're already starting to see,
especially down to the South.
These, those clouds gonna linger
a little bit longer whenever
you have a clear sky at night.
That's gonna maximize your cooldown.
So that's why we're dropping temperatures
down to 31 degrees with the aid of that
colder air coming from the Northwest.
So only the 20s up in the mountains,
high temperatures tomorrow.
This is the coldest day that
we have the week.
But 52 is not going to feel like 52 if
you factor in that strong breeze getting
up to about 25 mph during the afternoon.
Look at tomorrow morning, you have a
wind chill of seven degrees in boon,
feeling like 25 tomorrow morning.
An open parking lot and our wind chills
through the day are in the upper 30s,
in the lower 40s.
That's the best it's gonna be
feeling for your Tuesday.
We will have a little bit more
sunshine that makes things better,
but that wind is going to be quite harsh.
Rainfall chances are taking a
hiatus for the next few days,
but by the time you get to your
Saint Patrick's Day as of right now,
looks like most of the day should be dry.
It's Friday night heading into Saturday.
There we're starting to drift in some rain,
so it could be widespread heading
into the weekend.
This is also going to cool us back
down South, that surge to the 60s.
Short lived because we're right back
to the 50s by the end of the weekend,
so there's always a price to pay.
Mother Nature likes to be in an equilibrium.
It's always up and down,
up and down.
It's we've been up so much we
have to get more of those colder
days to balance everything out
and we're certainly feeling it.
Freezing mornings back-to-back
to back Tuesday,
52 up to 68 on Friday and then we'll
return to the 50s with Sunshine on Sunday.
Looking at the extended forecast,
think the middle of the following
week we should be back to the 60s,
so a lot of 50s and 60s jumping
up over the next 10 days.