Updated forecast for the Triangle shows extremely cold temps overnight Tuesday
Temperatures will descend across the Triangle starting Tuesday, kicking off a chilly midweek of winter weather.
Tuesday’s forecast predicts temperatures in the 30s during the day dipping overnight to the teens to low 20s. Winds gusting 15 to 25 mph will result in will feel like single-digit windchill.
Isolated and scattered showers are expected to begin in the northwest Piedmont Tuesday morning and move east to the Triangle throughout the day.
Raleigh’s best chance of seeing snow passed around noon Monday.
On Monday afternoon, snowfall was still expected to be minimal in the Triangle, as Raleigh had an 18 percent change of seeing at least a tenth of an inch of snow.
There’s still a greater chance of snow in the Triad and northern counties, with Roxboro seeing a 44% chance of snow.
The mountains of Western North Carolina are expected to see the best chance of snowfall accumulation, bringing as much as an inch to Boone and two inches to Cherokee.
Arctic blast hits North Carolina
The frigid conditions expected in the Triangle are part of a national weather pattern bringing some of the coldest conditions so far this winter. The National Weather Service warns of dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills, including possibly 70 below in Montana and North and South Dakota.
In the Triangle, mid-week temperatures are expected to be below normal, with lows dipping into the 20s and teens by Wednesday.
Meteorologists say they don’t yet have enough information to confidently say how much precipitation or what kind the system will deliver to North Carolina.
The way they often do when a hurricane is still forming off the coast of Africa, different computer models disagree over whether it will rain, snow or drop anything at all here. But there is consensus on the wool-worthy temperatures, and those will reach from the mountains all the way to the coast.
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