Showers for Thanksgiving Day and then C-O-L-D!

Today - Wednesday - clouds will hang around Mecklenburg county all day as temperatures top out in the upper 50s. Light easterly winds will bring additional moisture to reinforce the overcast. This is all ahead of a storm system which will cross the southern states today. By dawn Thursday showers will be dotting the landscape with temperatures in the mid-40s.

Thanksgiving Day will thus start out damp before a cold front associated with that storm system crosses through mid-day. There could be a rumble of thunder(!) tomorrow morning as the boundary nears and passes through, but total rain amounts won't add up to much as shown on this NWS Wakefield graphic:

Following the front's passage surface winds will swap around out of the west, gusting up to 20 mph at times. The cloud cover will slowly thin enough for some peeks of the sun before it sets at 4:59 p.m. in Clarksville.

Friday will be a transition weather day as much colder air filters into the area. Temperatures on "Black Friday" will range from morning lows in the mid-30s to afternoon highs in the mid-50s under mostly sunny skies. But starting Saturday into early next week Arctic air will invade, plunging temperatures into January-like readings. Afternoon highs will struggle to reach the mid-40s!

There won't be a blogpost on Friday, so the next one will be Sunday December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving!!