October Comes in Pretty Cold! First SnowFlakes in Mountains?

The pattern will be changing quickly by Friday afternoon as a strong cold front pushes into the Eastern states. A Canadian High pressure will send a strong cold front crossing the Appalachians late Friday evening and deliver the first widespread, cold and dry airmass of the season into the Southeast. The trough may be deep enough and cold enough to produce the first snowflakes in the higher mountains of West Virginia, northeast Tennessee and western North Carolina at some point on Saturday. But this will only be for the highest of elevations like Roan Mountain, Clingmans Dome, Grandfather and Mt. Mitchell.  The rest of the Southeast will finally clear out of the murky mess that we've endured for almost 2 weeks!  Both Saturday and Sunday mornings will be very chilly in the piedmont of the Carolinas and Georgia, with lows possibly getting into the upper 30's to low 40's.