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Cold rain continues to fall Tuesday, and Wednesday will be another WRAL Weather Alert Day due to a low flood risk. 




Cold rain, icy conditions possible: WRAL Weather Alert Days for Tuesday and Wednesday

<p>I'm WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. A weather alert day in effect again on Wednesday. This time due to the threat for just widespread rain throughout the day. This is going to have an impact on the roads, driving, plan for some delays, especially for the morning commute. Looking ahead, high temperatures are out of the 30s, at least, and into the 40s. It's a cold rain though for us, and there is still an icing threat off to our north and west and maybe a brief one first thing in the morning in northernmost counties. Thursday, it's warmer rain, but that could bring about some thunderstorms. Temperatures back in the 60s with showers and storms likely, mainly early in the day. We're not going to dry out until Friday when we see this boundary set up in a different location, but right now it's just kind of wave after wave of rain steered toward us, and we've got another round of that rain arriving overnight. It should be pretty steady and heavy and then early in the morning we could see temperatures drop back to 3. toward Roxboro, South Hill, our northernmost counties, and before 7 a.m., that would be the threat timeline. Still, it's mainly going to be bridges that could become icy. We just want you to be careful. No concerns for winter weather in the triangle or anywhere else in our viewing area south of there. Wednesday morning 8 a.m. still widespread rain around for the morning commute. That'll stick with us during the first part of the day, but we start to see more breaks in the rain and it thins out a bit as we head later into the afternoon. But still, it's going to A pretty soggy day out there for Valentine's Day, at least we are dry, mostly sunny, 53 degrees the high. It looks like a pretty nice day, one of our nicer days of the next seven days because rain chances return as we head into the weekend. 57 on Saturday with some late day showers. Sunday, thunderstorms possible with highs in the upper 60s. Early next week, some colder, drier weather returns, high temperatures in the 40s, low temperatures could even dip back into the 20s.</p>

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