Enjoy Charlotte’s balmy weather: Plummeting temps are on the way, NWS forecaster says.
Get ready from some roller coaster-type weather over the next few days in the Charlotte region with higher than normal- and then-lower temperature swings.
The temperature is expected to reach 76 degrees under sunny skies on Tuesday, 22 degrees above the average 30-year high for Feb. 4, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
“Today will be very warm,” NWS meteorologist Jeffrey Taylor told The Charlotte Observer.
Enjoy it while it lasts, which won’t be for long, the 11 a.m. forecast showed.
“We do have a big cool-down on Wednesday,” Taylor said.
A weather system from the northeast is predicted to drop the high on Wednesday to 48 degrees, according to the forecast.
Just as quickly, highs are expected to shoot up again, to 70 degrees on Thursday and 73 on Friday, the forecast showed.
That’s because a weather system from the Great Plains region is expected to erode most of the cooler system and push what’s left of it offshore, Taylor said.
Under mostly cloudy skies, a high of 62 is forecast on Saturday, followed by sunshine on Sunday and a high 74, the forecast showed.
Then, an even colder system is forecast to arrive in the Western Carolinas, Taylor said. Highs could drop to 52 or 53 on Monday and into the upper 40s on Tuesday, Taylor said.
This story was originally published February 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM.