By Steve Huffman
Salisbury Post
Snow flurries fell across Rowan County for about 30 minutes Wednesday morning.
The sight of the white stuff caused the hearts of school children to go pitter-patter, but the snow didn’t last.
There was no accumulation, and its appearance was so brief it didn’t even prompt a run on milk and bread at the grocery store.
No snowmen were erected and sleds remained garaged.
Tonight, the thermometer is supposed to plunge to a bone-chilling 16 degrees, but there won’t be any snow to accompany the cold.
“Currently, there’s no winter-type precipitation in the forecast,” said Doug Outlaw, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service near Greenville, S.C.
He said this morning’s low was expected to drop to 20 degrees.
“We’re going through this cold air,” Outlaw said. “It’s going to get really, really chilly.”
But he said conditions will change dramatically starting Friday, when the high is expected to reach the upper 40s. It’ll be in the 50s on Saturday and pushing 60 by Sunday.
Outlaw said the blast of cold air that’s over Rowan County at the moment swept down from Canada. He said that once it moves offshore, it’ll be replaced by winds from the South.
“It’s kind of a seesaw weather pattern,” Outlaw said.
He said there’s a chance of more precipitation reaching Rowan County by the middle of next week.
Alas, as far as school children are concerned, it’s nothing to get excited about. Next week’s precipitation is expected to be in the form of rain, not snow.
Contact Steve Huffman at 704-797-4222 or shuffman@salisburypost.com.