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We'll see temperatures climb into the 70s this afternoon.

Warm, sunny afternoon on tap with temps in the 70sð

<p>Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner, who was a cold start this morning, we had widespread temperatures in the thirties, but here's why we're not likely to see that again. This week, high pressure system that you can see down in the deep south, it rotates clockwise, starts to slide eastward a little closer to us and we're going to see the flow on the backside of that high, which is coming out of the south. Let me show you what I'm talking about right now. Our winds are fairly light and as we take a look at the wind direction, you can see it's kind of all over the place until we get to around lunchtime and then it's solidly coming out of the southwest and you could see the uh winds shaded there and red. So that's going to be some warmer air that moves in. Temperatures will actually be very close to normal. We do have a cold front that's gonna swing through tomorrow and uh that's really not going to cool us down much. It's going to bring us some cloud cover and maybe a quick light shower during the afternoon, but we're definitely gonna see uh some warmer temperatures starting this afternoon. 73 in Raleigh and in Durham, 73 in Fayetteville, the Durham Bulls have a day, game day. It starts at 11 o'clock and the temperatures are going to be really nice for that. We'll have near normal highs for the rest of the week. At least through Saturday, near normal is 75 and temperatures will be in the low to mid seventies all the way through Saturday and then Sunday and Monday, those temperatures climb up into the low eighties with some warmer weather ahead. After dropping easily down into the thirties. This morning, our low tomorrow morning will be 51. So about 15 degrees warmer and 51 is our normal low. For this time of year, we tend to see the coldest temperature of the day at around seven o'clock and we'll see a cooler Friday at 45 and then we're into the fifties again for Saturday and Sunday. So it's really pleasant. I mean, we're looking at temperatures that are close to normal, which are in the seventies. We're going to see a lot of sunshine for the next seven days except tomorrow, we'll see increasing clouds with that quick band of rain that comes through. Not, not going to be a whole lot to that. We'll see maybe a quarter of an inch or less and we're looking nice and warm next week, we do climb up to 85 by next Monday.</p>

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