RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — A powerful cold front sweeping across the Carolinas and parts of Virginia is producing damaging wind gusts between 50 and 70 mph, knocking down trees and triggering power outages as the system moves rapidly east toward the Atlantic coast.
Meteorologists monitoring the storm say the strongest winds are occurring directly along the advancing cold front, where intense downward mixing is pulling stronger winds from higher in the atmosphere down to the surface.
As the line pushes eastward across North Carolina, communities are already reporting numerous fallen trees and scattered power outages.
Damaging Wind Line Moving Across North Carolina
Radar imagery shows a narrow but intense band of storms and wind surging east across the state during the late afternoon and evening hours…