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We have a shot of cold air this weekend before we'll get a WRAL Weather Alert Day to start the week.

Cold and quiet night on Saturday; Monday is WRAL Weather Alert Day with chance for wintry mix

Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here with our forecast as we head into a very chilly Saturday night with temperatures in the low to mid-twenties across the area. We've got some mostly clear skies. Other than that, really no big issues for us through tonight into the most part here tomorrow. Let's talk about though, where we go into our Sunday. So we're looking at a temperature of 47 tomorrow afternoon. Cloud cover though will start to build in through the day. We'll likely start off with a lot of sunshine, and then we get into the evening, we may have completely cloudy skies ahead of our next system that comes in Sunday night and Monday. No major changes with this, but what I would say is this looks like the majority of us looking at rain. Our temperatures are going to be too warm to get anything frozen consistently across the area. But our far northern counties, even as far south as, let's say Roxboro, Roanoke Rapids, South Hill, there's going to be a period early Monday. Morning, let's say between about 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. where we could see some snow, a wintry mix, some freezing rain, really just a mixed bag of pre-sip there early Monday morning before it transitions to all rain, I expect the Monday morning commute to be above freezing for all of us, so rain coming through at that point. Here's a look at Futurecast. Sunday at 1 p.m. you see the cloud cover building in at 50 p.m. Futurecast is trying to show something tomorrow. I'm not necessarily buying that. I think our air at the surface is going to be way too dry to get anything to fall tomorrow. But by the time we get to 2 a.m., you can see some of that blue showing up there for Mecklenburg County into Virginia. That would be some snow. The rest of us looking at some rain, and then kind of that transition zone in between. But by 8 a.m. the freezing rain line starts to push to the north, and this is all rain for us. There's 10 o'clock, you can see as we go through the late morning, lunchtime, and then it starts to push out into the afternoon. Very, very close here, at least relatively speaking to some big time snow totals. They're talking potentially in Northern Virginia. Some spots over 1 ft. So this is going to be a huge snowmaker for a large part of the country, maybe struggling to get, let's say, 4.7 inches of snow there, just a quick dusting in South Hill, but then once that rain comes through, it's going to wash everything that may have tried to accumulate away. So this is not going to be a snowmaker for us, at least what you might think of for the winter. We go to 47 on our Sunday, 50 on Monday, so you see way too warm to get any snow out of that, with some rain coming down, 41 Tuesday, 42 Wednesday, and then into next weekend on Saturday, we're going to have another, I would say pretty similar system to track as what we're seeing here for Monday. Temperatures may be a little bit colder, so that may lend itself to more of a freezing rain, snow potential, but it's still way too early to say exactly what's going to happen with that. But I will say there's at least indications we could see another system coming through next weekend.

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