A strong cold front will sweep through the southern Appalachian
region this morning. Behind the front, very cold and dry air will
move into the forecast area, causing temperatures to hold steady
or slowly fall through the afternoon and also relative humidity
values to drop back into the 35 to 40 percent range across much of
the area.
While wind gusts will subside relative to what has been seen
overnight, gusty winds of 15 to 25 mph will likely continue into
the mid afternoon hours. This will coincide with rapidly
decreasing RH values. As such, fire danger levels will be elevated
today.