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The weekend is a tale of two forecasts with a chilly, cloudy Saturday giving way to a somewhat sunny and warm Sunday. 

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Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. It's really warm out there this morning. We've had a solid flow coming out of the South all night. You know, it was a chilly day yesterday. Today's gonna be totally different. It's gonna be warm. We'll see some sunshine breaking out eventually. Let's take a look at Futurecast. As we roll through, once we get to 8 or 9 o'clock, we should really start to see the sunshine, uh, rolling back in the clouds, moving on out. Just a beautiful afternoon. There's lunchtime, you can see how clear it is, and just a few passing clouds during the evening. Now, if you're headed to a Super Bowl party and you're Going to be leaving around 89, 10 o'clock. There could be a little bit of patchy rain that's redeveloped, and it could be with us first thing in the morning for the morning commute, and then we'll definitely see it on through the afternoon. Heading out the door this morning early, we're looking at some cloud cover, but again, we should start to see those clouds breaking up easily before lunchtime. Temperatures in the mid-60s, we're going to hold it in the mid to upper 60s for highs this afternoon. It's just incredibly warm out there, a little bit cooler for Roxborough and South Hill to kick things off. But we'll likely see highs in the mid to upper 60s for Raleigh and Durham, 75, potentially, and it's crazy. So, are you grilling out for the big game? Temperatures look good for that. 64 at 3 o'clock, 60 at 5 o'clock. Of course, uh, kick off 6:30. Temperatures start to fall on into the 50s, and then we'll cloud up and we'll see the potential for a few sprinkles by the time we get to 8 or 9 o'clock. Check out our wind direction. Right now, our wind is coming solidly out of the southwest. You can see. The arrows shaded in red, and that symbolizes the warm temperatures. As we get through the day, watch what happens with the winds first becoming southwesterly, that starts to, uh, excuse me, northwesterly, that starts to push some cooler air in, but we won't feel that until late afternoon or the evening. And then it switches to northeasterly, that starts to grab some cool damp air from off the North Atlantic, and that is what is going to bring us what we call the wedge or the cold air damming pattern, which brings us chilly temperature. cloudy skies, and that's just kind of that pattern tends to lock in and it's hard to get rid of it. So, our normal highs 54, we're in the 40s. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we're still looking at rain on Thursday, Friday, finally for Valentine's Day, maybe the driest day that we see between, say now and then, look at that, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, looking at rainy conditions, some significant amounts of rain. Tune in to WRAL to get through the day today and I'll show you how much we'll see.

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