Charlotte temperatures to plummet below freezing, NWS says. Snow in mountains.

Charlotte should brace for subfreezing temperatures early in the week, while snow is expected in the mountains, National Weather Service meteorologists said Saturday.

Late Monday and early Tuesday, temperatures across the Charlotte region could bottom out at 28 degrees, according to the NWS forecast. That’s four degrees below freezing.

“Widespread freezing temperatures are likely Monday night,” according to an NWS hazardous weather outlook bulletin. “In many places this could amount to a hard freeze and end the growing season.”

The alert included Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and Rowan counties and parts of the mountains.

Charlotte had a 50% chance of showers late Saturday and early Sunday, before skies were expected to remain clear through the week, the forecast showed.

After a predicted high of 74 on Saturday and Sunday, highs were forecast to fall to 47 on Monday and 49 on Tuesday before rebounding to 63 on Wednesday and 66 on Thursday and Friday, according to the NWS.

Lows are forecast to improve to 37 late Tuesday and early Wednesday, 40 late Wednesday and early Thursday, and 38 late Thursday and early Friday.

Mountain snow forecast

Along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, snow showers could begin Sunday night, Nov. 9, and continue into the day on Monday, Nov. 10, The News & Observer reported, citing the NWS office in Greer, S.C.

An inch to three inches of snow could fall in the northwest-facing slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains and the Roan Mountain area, according to the NWS.