Full-On Blizzard NC /TN Mountains, Very cold Outbreak, Ice Threat Late Week

Still looks like a much colder outbreak on the way. It arrives in western NC by midday Sunday. But before then, we have a cold front which drops a nice quick rainfall across the Southeast. Its a close call for the NC mountains Saturday night after midnight. The atmosphere could be just cold enough to be mostly or all snow in places like Asheville and Boone, but right now its too close to say for sure, and the predominant thinking is rain ahead of the cold front, not snow. I wouldn't be suprised though to see a quick surprise 6" of snow from this though. The bigger deal arrives immediately around dawn Sunday morning with upslope snowfall commencing for the Apps, and snowflakes even reaching down to Atlanta. Parts of Alabama and North Georgia could get some accumulating snow showers with this cold air as well, but usually very little if any snow showers cross over the mountains in NC, but there could be a few stray flakes Sunday evening.
Temperatures will be diving and the winds will pickup to 30 mph. Hold on to your hat Sunday night and Monday across the Carolinas and northern Georgia. A full blizzard will be raging in eastern Tennessee and western NC with heavy upslope snowfall, and bitter cold wind chills.  You don't want to be stuck in weather like this in the high country, so if your'e travelling that way, take extra precautions. Temps will stay in the teens in the mountains on Monday, and only get into the middle and upper 20's outside the mountains in places like Atlanta Charlotte and Raleigh.
Beyond this, we have to watch southern moisture trying to sneak into the Southeast by late Wednesday. Things could begin to ice up at some point Wednesday night or Thursday, but we'll talk more about that later. First the cold wave and mountain blizzard.