Up that way, the chance for showers and thunderstorms is
going to actually going to increase for our area today
we have several concerns,
not only for wintry weather north and West,
but for flooding area wise.
Some strong winds that could cause some damage across the
area too and the chance for severe thunderstorms.
There's a line and you clearly see that line of
showers and storms.
That's going to be a wind problem as it moves
through the area at some point,
especially for the triad, it's the individual cells that are
popping up in front of the main line and they
are lining up out of the Gulf of Mexico and
moving through portions of of of of Alabama and the
Florida Panhandle at the moment.
Those have a a better chance of producing tornadoes and
we've actually had a few tornado warnings on a few
of those cells as they've come on shore
locally. This is the last three hours or so,
and we bring in some rain in scattered showers.
Relatively light at the moment,
but it's starting to fill in over the entire area.
Fortunately for the majority of the region,
temperatures are above freezing, so we're not starting out with
any wintry weather.
Outside of the mountains where we have temperatures that are
kind of fluctuating in the low to mid 30s,
some snow at the start and then some icy weather
after that Winter weather advisory in place until 10:00 AM
at that point.
We're expecting temperatures to warm enough for this kind of
evolves from a potential for some freezing rain and sleet
into the just rain. You can see the entire area
under a flood watch.
They do expire at various times,
but area wide we're expecting at least an inch and
a half,
if not two inches of rain.
But three and even 4 inch totals can't be ruled
out
from some very intense rainfall that will start to develop
over the course of the morning and into the afternoon
hours today.
On top of that, the winds in the atmosphere are
extremely strong.
Just above the ground, a few 1000 feet.
They're howling out of the South and South
southwest at about
7080 mph and it doesn't take much up and down
movement in the atmosphere.
Vertical movement to bring some of those strong wind gusts
to the ground.
High wind warnings in the higher elevations for gusts up
to
55 mph. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a
60 mile an hour gust or better today.
That's going to be persistent into at least this evening
we are going to keep gusty conditions around into your
Wednesday as well,
but to a lesser degree.
The one time I don't want to sleep on it
and one of the reasons why
a lot of school systems decided to go remote or
cancel school altogether is that the timing of this comes
in midday or early afternoon and trying to dismiss and
the potential for severe weather is never a good idea.
You can see the risk for the mountains is low,
but we could see a few thunderstorms.
It starts to increase in the foothills,
western and northern Piedmont, but you notice the areas along
and South of 85 under that level 2 and a
Level 3 risk that's just outside of Montgomery County.
These are the areas where widespread wind damage and even
a chance for significant tornadoes are a possibility.
You can see it's just South and east of our
area.
The the bigger tornado risk,
but we will likely see some strong wind gusts and
some wind damage today timing this out.
Shower weather for the morning,
more intense rainfall and a few thunderstorms develop as temperatures
begin to warm up.
The main line comes in during the afternoon and exits
during the early part of the evening and then we
kind of dry out
for your Wednesday and Thursday.
Temperatures cool tomorrow and a blustery day back in the
50s to near 60° Friday,
Friday, another round of rain comes through that may also
include a few thunderstorms,
with temperatures returning to the 40s this weekend.