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Wilmington, North Carolina – Rare Arctic air is pushing all the way to the coast, bringing an extended stretch of unseasonably cold weather to the Carolinas’ shoreline through the end of January and into early February. Overnight lows are expected to fall sharply this weekend, with freezing temperatures reaching areas that typically avoid prolonged winter cold, including coastal North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina.
According to the National Weather Service and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, the pattern from Jan. 27 through early February favors much below normal temperatures across the Southeast. This Arctic air mass is part of a larger national outbreak driving extreme cold across the Midwest and Northeast, while forcing freezing conditions deep into the Carolinas, including coastal communities…