Winter Storm Warning | North Carolina Weather 6 PM

Good evening! I'm Aaron Jolly. And this is the North Carolina Weather Podcast for Monday, February 23rd. Folks, the mountains and the coast are both throwing tantrums tonight.. For completely different reasons. Snow showers linger in Avery and Mitchell Counties through 8 PM. Winds gusting to 40 miles an hour above 3,500 feet. Near whiteout conditions at times. By 3 AM, wind chills drop to 18 degrees in Boone. That's the kind of cold that stings your lungs. Meanwhile, down at the coast, a Coastal Flood Advisory has water creeping up to a foot deep near Pamlico Sound and Ocracoke Island through early Tuesday. Mountains get snow. Coast gets flooded. Classic North Carolina Monday. Now the Piedmont? You're the lucky ones tonight. Sunshine ruled today with highs near 43 degrees. Northwest winds gusted to 29 miles an hour, giving that sun some teeth. Tonight you'll slide to 25 degrees by 6 AM. Wind chills around 19. Tomorrow rebounds to 49 degrees by 4 PM under mostly sunny skies. Over in the Triangle, similar story. You topped out near 46 degrees today with gusts to 22 miles an hour. Tonight drops to 27 degrees by 7 AM. Wind chills near 21. Tomorrow brings sunny skies and 48 degrees. Out west, lows crash to 18 degrees by 6 AM. Tomorrow the snow finally quits. Highs climb to 47 degrees by 4 PM. The week ahead tells a bigger story. The deep freeze loosens its grip by Wednesday. A warm front pushes highs into the 60s by Thursday. That's when rain rolls in, heaviest in the northwest. Friday dries out. Saturday looks gorgeous. Sunny, 66 degrees in the Piedmont. Sunday brings a slight chance of showers but nothing worth canceling plans over. Quick bright spot. You're gaining two minutes and ten seconds of daylight today. Sunrise at 6:53 AM, sunset at 6:04 PM. Spring is creeping closer. Charge your phone before bed tonight. You'll want that alarm working when those wind chills hit. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow. Take care!