Charlotte temperatures to soar above normal this week, NWS says. Is it ‘second summer’?
Charlotte can expect an abrupt change in the weather this week, a National Weather Service meteorologist said Saturday.
A warm air mass from the west is forecast to push out the glorious cooler weather we’ve enjoyed the past week and send temperatures soaring above normal into the mid- and high 90s, meteorologist Clay Chaney told The Charlotte Observer.
“We’ll go from 5 to 8 degrees below normal over the past week to 7 to 10 degrees above normal,” Chaney said from the NWS office in Greer, South Carolina.
Highs are predicted to jump from 87 on Sunday to 92 on Monday, 95 on Tuesday, 97 on Wednesday and 98 on Thursday, the 5 p.m. Saturday NWS forecast for Charlotte showed..
The NWS’ Greenville-Spartanburg office posted a fanciful list of “12 seasons” on X on Friday, proclaiming that “false fall” will soon morph into “second summer.” The 12th season? “Actual fall.”
The other nine seasons? “Winter, Fool’s Spring, Second Winter, Spring of Deception, Third Winter, The Pollening, Actual Spring, Summer and The Center of the Sun.”
We always knew our weather was crazy, but with its list of 12 seasons, the NWS confirmed it.
This story was originally published August 25, 2024 at 6:30 AM.