From Duke Energy
On Monday morning, strong high pressure will be centered over the northern Rockies and extend southeast all the way into Florida. Monday will be a sunny but much colder day; highs 20-25 degrees colder than on Sunday. Skies will start out mostly clear but then high cloudiness will increase after midnight, especially across the southern half of the area. Many locations will remain below freezing throughout Tuesday.
The focus then shifts to a storm system that will develop in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, cross Florida and the move up the Atlantic coastline Tuesday night into Wednesday. There is still some uncertainty in the exact track and impacts due to model run-to-run variability. The overnight model guidance has trended back toward the southeast, suppressing higher liquid totals closer to the coast and reducing precipitation amounts inland. There is still high confidence that all precipitation will fall as snow. At this time, snowfall totals look to be 1-4” across our area, with highest amounts toward the coast…