Good afternoon, everyone. Milder winds are blowing and those winds are about to become the main weather story of the weekend. If you’re a regular reader, the blog has had you prepared for this storm for about a week now. If you’re not a regular reader…What are you waiting for? 🙂 I kid… Kinda.

Wind gusts of 50mph or higher will develop later tonight into Saturday, and these winds will likely cause some damage…

This isn’t a one and done wind gust we are talking about, this is an all day event of winds occasionally topping 50mph.

A powerhouse of a cold front will then sweep eastward across the state during the afternoon, potentially brining strong to severe thunderstorms…

Cold air then crashes in behind this front…

That means the potential for snowflakes to show up as early as late Saturday evening into the wee hours of Sunday morning. Northwest wind will then create flurries and a few snow showers on Sunday, especially in the east…

Sunday is just a COLD day and you should take the under on the computer model forecast numbers. Wind chills will make it feel much, much colder.

Speaking of much colder, we find the operational models finding the cold air again for Wednesday and Thanksgiving…

I’m seeing early signals for an eastern US winter system taking shape next weekend into early the following week.

Updates come your way later today. Make it a good one and take care.