As we head into the weekend, how about a nice little drive through the mountains? Our drive will cover only 4 and a half hours and 276 miles. That’s a pace of 62 winding miles through the Appalachians and Smoky Mountains.

This drive will take us north into Virginia so we can hitch a ride on I-81 and head into Morristown. There are going to be a pair of competing forces, including a weak area of low pressure in the Bight of Georgia, and a distant boundary in the Plains. They will have the same effect on either side of the mountain ridge: upslope winds, leading to scattered showers and storms. It will be showery for every leg of the drive on Saturday, but it won’t be a washout. It’s often rainy in this part of the world anyway, so we can’t complain a whole lot. The latter half of the weekend will be sunnier and warmer in Morristown.