Michelle Kennedy

Holiday travel will be underway this weekend just as a much colder arctic air mass invades the eastern half of the United States. This new weather pattern helps temperatures plunge into the 30s for highs across the Piedmont Triad in North Carolina this weekend.

After a partly cloudy Thursday with seasonable 50s, Friday brings limited rain chances and some mountain snow showers.

A new weather analysis of North Carolina and Virginia's Hurricane Helene disaster has been released by meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Blacksburg, VA

Slight chance for Triad light freezing rain overnight until sunrise. There is a slight chance for a brief travel impact from a few areas of spotty black ice if freezing rain develops from a coastal low from areas south and east of Winston-Salem early Tuesday morning.

A brief chance for freezing rain develops overnight into Tuesday before sunrise in the Piedmont Triad. Please watch for spotty black ice if traveling overnight. Milder highs and sunshine returns for Tuesday afternoon.

Morning lows on Wednedsay will dip to near 30 degrees in the Piedmont Triad. More clouds arrive late Wednesday with lows in the low 50s.

A chilly Thursday is underway, and a colder Friday with light showers will lead us into a rainy weekend.

Umbrella weather is likely for the upcoming weekend in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Scattered rain showers are forecast to begin late Friday with riisng rain chances for the rest of the weekend.

Wet roads are likely through Sunday with periods of heavy rainfall likely this weekend. Severe storms may bring damaging wind gusts and isolated tornado threats on Sunday afternoon to the Piedmont Triad.

A line of strong to severe storms is expected to begin moving into the mountains Sunday morning. The storm should be spreading east toward the Foothills and Triad through 10 a.m. Severe storm threats and heavy rain risks are forecast to wind down by 4 p.m.