PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — Powerful storms over the Mississippi River Valley will be churning across Tennessee and Kentucky today. We are expecting this system to cross western North Carolina tonight, bringing a chance of severe weather.
Skies are mostly clear this morning, but clouds are expected to steadily increase through the day. Temperatures will be seasonable, warming to the upper-70s later this afternoon.
There is a Level 2/Slight Risk for severe weather tonight in Ashe, Alleghany, and Wilkes Counties, along with the rest of the North Carolina mountains. There is a Level 1/Marginal Risk of severe weather for the rest of the FOX8 viewing area. The primary threat will be from damaging winds, though the risk of an isolated tornado cannot be dismissed, especially in the mountains.
Overnight, a warm front will sweep northward across the Piedmont. With warmer air arriving behind that front, temperatures will be hovering in the upper-60s until a cold front arrives later in the morning. There are two potential opportunities for thunderstorms in the Piedmont. The first is just after midnight when a few scattered storms may develop in the Foothills and cross the Triad between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. The second opportunity will be with the main line of thunderstorms, which is forecast to cross the Piedmont between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Conditions will improve quickly tomorrow morning once the main line of thunderstorms moves to our east. We will have clearing skies and temperatures are going to rebound nicely, into the mid-80s.
Temperatures start to cool down beginning Thursday as a second cold front passes through the Carolinas. Enjoy highs in the upper-70s under mostly sunny skies.
Friday through Monday, highs will be below normal, in the lower-to-mid-70s. The forecast is dry for Friday and Saturday, with mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. Sunday afternoon, however, there will be a slim chance of scattered, light showers which will linger overnight and into Monday.
