Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cool & cloudy this weekend with rain showers this weekend...Gradually warming into the 50s with rain showers likely though most of next week.

Overcast skies & rain showers continue tonight as low pressure slides just east of our area. Deep trough of cold air will dig into the southeastern U.S. & bring a chance for mountain snow flurries tonight. Lows tonight will fall to at or below freezing.

Low-level clouds and patchy fog will develop into early Thursday. Otherwise, rain showers continue with temps reaching the mid to upper 40s. In the mountain counties and to the east, snow flurries will continue to fall with only an inch or two accumulating into Thursday night.

Upper air flow turns northwest Friday. Cool temps continue. Skies will clear with a few peaks of sunshine to the east. But rain showers are likely for northern West Virginia. Liquid precip will changeover to a wet snow in by early evening Friday for the higher elevations. Other areas could see a rain/snow mix with lows in the low 30s Friday night.

Temperatures will gradually warm into the 50s this weekend & may even reach 60 next week. But more wet weather is likely next week as a series of low pressure systems are slated to parade across the Appalachians.