Rainy Setup for Tuesday/Wednesday. Turning Cooler Later in the Week.

Here we are, within the first few days of December and so far, it's been definitely warmer than how last year began thanks to the blocking that we had, which we are currently lacking sadly.  Highs have ranged from the mid 50s to low 60s for most across the Southeast.  We should continue to see this kind of temperatures over the next few days with increasing chances for rain, which is now targeted to be starting later today and through the first half of the week thanks to a rather slow-moving cold front.  With the moisture axis setting up in a more southwest to northeast fashion, when the rain does arrive, it will stick around for quite a while and could be heavy at times.  It may take until the early morning hours of Thursday before we can finally shove it all out of here giving the timing of its arrival and departure.  With the colder air behind the front, the mountains of TN/NC could have the rain change over to snow during the Wednesday night period.  Even some spots outside the TN mountains such as Nashville could see a rain or rain/snow mix changing to snow that night as well.

Temperatures take a dive back into the 50s once more for the rest of this week with staying in the 40s for highs and the early part of next week with lows backing down into the 30s again so seasonal conditions looks to be the case.  Overall, I'm expecting dry conditions to persist after our rain event for a while through Day 7.