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Below 32 degrees and Monday-Thursday snow update
Winter is not wasting any time this year.
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First hard freeze and the third frost here in Charleston today. Charleston's ASOS METAR station was reading 30°F when I got up at 7 this morning, the coldest it has been since April. The valley looked like a January post-arctic frontal passage, with industrial steam forming its distinctive low stratus.
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Furthermore, the GFS model has beefed up the snow forecast for all of West Virginia for Sunday and beyond, showing a solid upslope event from Tennessee up through the Alleghenies lasting all the way through Thursday!
![](oct2208d.jpg) GFS ptype forecast for Monday morning
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![](oct2208f.jpg) GFS ptype forecast for Tuesday morning
![](oct2208g.jpg) GFS precip forecast for Tuesday morning
Quite a classic Lake Michigan moisture plume/upslope pattern setting up there on Tuesday. This may be an outside-of-the-mountains event that could affect Charleston with the first icy bridge events of the season, much earlier than usual.
Blizzard warnings are already up for Kansas tonight.
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