Winds will become increasingly breezy today with warm and mainly cloudy conditions. Rain tonight ahead of an impactful cold front
- Today: Windy, warm, and mainly cloudy. High: 71°.
- Tonight: (80%) Strong cold front brings rain, wind, and colder temps. Low: 43° (at 7:00 a.m.).
- Monday: (40%) Scattered showers early and east with falling temps through the day (below freezing by 5p.m.) High: 43° (at 7:00 a.m.).
Today will be the last warm day we see for some time. Highs again near 70° are expected for most of us. It will be a mainly overcast day and a windy day with gusts up to 35 mph at times. Even higher gusts for the higher terrain of the Plateau and Smokies. The Smokies are under a wind advisory this evening through tomorrow for gusts up to 50mph.
Our Next Weathermaker:
A line of showers will move in tonight, mainly after midnight and starting across the Plateau. This is ahead of a potent cold front ushering in much colder air. A few higher elevation locations could see a brief transition over to a light wintry mix, but no meaningful accumulations are expected, and most just see rain…