Weather

Today we begin “meteorological” winter–a designation just to put the seasons into easy-to-digest three-month formats even though real winter is three weeks away–with cold weather. We won’t see a high close to average all week long in the first of December Tri-Cities Weather Blog forecast. Here’s the outlook for today!

• Tonight-Partly cloudy and cold. Lows near 20.
• Monday-Mostly sunny for the majority of the day, but cold. High 36. Monday night will be cloudy with a few snow showers in spots, and a low again near 20.
• Tuesday-Partly to mostly sunny. High 34.
• Wednesday-Sunny, windy and cold. High 45.
• Thursday-Partly cloudy, a few rain or snow showers. High 42.
• Friday-Mostly sunny and windy. High 37.

Our featured weather event this week is a clipper that comes through just to our south on Monday evening. That’s simply low pressure that moves quickly, usually coming from the Canadian province of Alberta, hence Alberta Clipper. Those usually take interesting paths around our area, and this one goes from Missouri to near Atlanta tomorrow. Those systems don’t normally have a lot of moisture, so any rain or snow will be limited, and likely in the mountains tonight.

We’ll get two days of dry weather. Our warmest day will be Wednesday in the mid 40s. Clouds and a few rain or snow showers are possible Thursday. That system also moves quickly out of here, and Friday will resume cold weather with temperatures that don’t get out of the upper 30s.

So, with meteorological winter starting, we’re underway with the cold part of things. Temperatures are normally in hte low 50s for highs and near freezing for lows, so we’re definitely below that in the coming days.

Thanks for checking here for the forecast, stay warm this week!