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Saturday night will be cool with frost advisories for Durham, Sanford and other western counties with lows in the upper 30s. The cold air won't last long, warm weather is on the way into the week. 


Frost advisories Saturday night into Sunday morning ahead of a big warm up Monday

Hi everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglion here with a chilly forecast as we head through tonight. In fact, we do have some frost advisories out for Durham, Sanford, areas westward there, including Greensboro, up until 9 o'clock on our Sunday morning. If you happen to have planted. Anything outside, if you have things sitting on your patio plant wise, we're gonna be looking at temperatures close to freezing, if not at freezing. So we're going to likely see some frost form tonight in those locations. All of us though are going to be chilly, so I would bring those in tonight for sure or protect them if you can. Let's talk about those as far as what we're looking at temperature wise across the board. 39 in Raleigh, 40 for Fayetteville and Clinton, 41 Rocky Mountain, Goldsboro, right about 35 in Roxboro. Again, that is gonna come with some patchy frost. We start the morning off chilly, but then we go through the day heading out for a high of 67, close to 70. It should actually be a really nice end of the weekend. Just a cold start. If you're up and at them for church or breakfast, brunch, things like that, you may want a coat or even a jacket tomorrow morning. We should be at 72 for this time of the year. We'll be below that tomorrow. 84 though on Monday. Some warmer weather starts to come back in. 72, right on the dot there for a normal on Tuesday, 68 Wednesday, and then 70 by the time we get into our Thursday. Rain chances are pretty minimal. There could be just a stray shower as we head through tonight, mainly east of the triangle. Other than that, I only have us on really Tuesday afternoon into Tuesday night, that chance. We're looking pretty quiet though, otherwise. 84 Monday, 72 on Tuesday, drop into the 60s on Wednesday. All in all, though, a beautiful week headed this way and the rest of the weekend. We get into next weekend though, look at temperatures getting closer to 90 by the time we get into Saturday.

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