NWS Freezing Rain Advisory (Buncombe County)

Current Conditions
Asheville UNCA

Temp: 37.6°F

Forecast Last Updated at Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 6:38AM

Close, but Just a Chilly Rain

A cold rain is all we get today with temperatures hovering several degrees above freezing. See our Ice Accumulation map for areas of most concern. When it’s so yucky outside don’t you wish Mother Nature would just bring it down a couple more notches and earn her pay? Rain showers continue on and off through the first half of Monday. We’ll get a short break in the action late Monday before the last push of rain comes through Tuesday. Thereafter, it remains chilly and uneventful for the rest of the week.

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Sunday Hi: 39 Lo: 38 Cloudy with periods of rain; Cold & raw; SE wind 5-10 mph

Monday Hi: 57 Lo: 43 Cloudy with periods of rain continuing; Not as cold; South wind 5-10 mph

Tuesday Hi: 49 Lo: 31 Morning showers; Some clearing late & colder; NW wind 10-20 with higher gusts

Wednesday Hi: 45 Lo: 27 Scattered clouds & chilly

Thursday Hi: 45 Lo: 28 A few clouds; Still on the cool side

Further Out

Friday - Remaining cool; More afternoon clouds; High in the upper 40s; Low in the lower 30s
Saturday - Mostly cloudy; Passing light showers; High in the mid 40s; Low in the mid 30s

Forecast Discussion

Cold air is wedged along the east side of the Appalachians while warm, moist air aloft is overrunning the shallow cold pool. A stalled front stretches from the Louisiana coast into the TN Valley. The front moves at a snail’s pace the next two days as waves of low pressure ride along the front. This will keep things very wet across western NC until Tuesday afternoon.

In the near term, surface temperatures are high enough to keep today’s rain all liquid. The exception will be for a few higher peaks along the Blue Ridge through late morning before those locations warm as well. As we go through the nighttime hours the cold air wedge erodes from the top down as warmer air mixes to the surface. Temperatures will actually increase overnight.

Monday will be a “warm” rain compared with today. A brief lull in the action is expected Monday afternoon and Monday night before the final push of rain comes through Tuesday with the ever so-slow front. Behind the front things calm down considerably with dry and colder weather the norm through late week.

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