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Rain showers return Sunday with most occurring in the morning. A dense fog advisory is underway until 9 a.m. for most of central North Carolina.

Dense fog advisory: Foggy start Sunday ahead of bitter cold, snow chance for some this week

I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels, a happy Sunday to you. We're tracking some rain that's moving through at least parts of the area through about midday today. You see those showers are scattered to at times numerous through the middle of the day. And then as we head into the afternoon, the overall coverage of showers is gonna turn a little more hit and miss. And I would say after 5 or 6 p.m. we're pretty much done with any kind of rain chance today. But with this front moving through, you're also going to notice a big difference in our temperatures. Roxborough South Hill, 45 to high, Raleigh 55, and then Fayetteville and Clinton, you're in the low 60s, so it is gonna be a big difference in regards to temperatures from north to south. Today, but eventually that cold air catches up with everyone. Hour by hour, our wind chill this evening, it'll be in the 30s, but overnight into tomorrow morning, the wind chill dropping in the teens for many of you, and really some of the coldest air that we've felt since Christmas Eve of 2022. That's what we're expecting really Monday through Wednesday and even into Thursday morning. Now, at the same time, we have a storm system that is going to be somewhere. Near the east coast. The thing about this storm system that we've really emphasized is that a 25 to 50 mile shift makes a big difference in who sees light snow versus who sees nothing at all. And in fact, when you look at some of the overnight data, it's shifted ever so slightly to the east. So that lowered our odds of one inch of snow. Granted, it could take less than 1 inch to make things pretty slick out there Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning. Balloons are sampling the storm as we speak. That data is going to get fed into our forecast models that come out between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday. So we hope to have our first call snow map for Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, coming out Sunday afternoon. Regardless, going to be very cold in the week ahead. High temperatures 30 to 32 Monday through Wednesday, lows in the teens through Thursday morning, a little bit of a rebound heading into next weekend.

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