BLOG: 50s In February

It will be another mild day for mid-February, with most temperatures reaching the lower and middle 50s.

A high pressure system is forecasted to be centered over the central and southern Appalachians late Friday and Friday night, which will bring a mostly clear sky to the area overnight. Most temperatures, therefore, should wind up in the 20s in the typically colder spots and the 30s in most of the larger cities and towns. With the President's Day Weekend almost upon us, we're anticipating Saturday to get off to a fairly sunny start. It will still be mild for this time of year. Obviously, all of the talk recently has been about our "potential for snow and rain" around here on Sunday, and we do have a lot to say about this.

First of all, the body of low pressure has yet to form -- but it will Friday night and early Saturday along the Gulf Coast. Saturday and Saturday night, its track will be pushing it through the Deep South, and it will probably be located in Georgia or the western Carolinas early on Sunday morning. So, we can now rule out the possibility that there may be some rain or snow occurring along the mid-Atlantic coast and near the I-95 corridor as early as Saturday night.

The "best guess" we can make at this time is that any "wintry mix" that occurs early on Sunday morning should change over to just a WET SNOW for at least a while, based on the ideas that the storm's future track will be pushing it through the Carolinas on Sunday afternoon, and the air aloft should be cold enough, and the precipitation should be steady and heavy enough to yield about 1-3 inches of snow...mostly on grassy surfaces much like last weekend.