Overview
- Temperatures fall into the 20s Thursday night with windchills in the teens, with a sharper freeze Sunday through midweek and highs stuck in the 20s at times.
- The main U.S. model recently showed a significant coastal snow threat for Sunday, but the European model kept the system offshore.
- The National Weather Service in Mount Holly says the setup carries high-end potential yet could also amount to nothing.
- NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center favors below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation for Jan. 22–28 in the region.
- Forecasters see patterns importing colder air from northwestern Canada and say a major polar-vortex disruption is possible in early February but not expected in the next few weeks.