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Temperatures hover in the 40s Wednesday after some locations hit 80Â° Tuesday afternoon.

Temps could drop up to 40 degrees Wednesday in some areas after record heat Tuesday ð¥¶

Happy Wednesday. I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels in the WRALs Severe Weather Center. Talk about a dramatic difference in our weather today as compared to yesterday. Our temperature is pretty much what you see is what you get. In fact, we may even cool by a few degrees heading into the afternoon. Our afternoon temperatures will be a good 35 to 40 degrees lower than they were just yesterday afternoon. A lot of us were Between 75 and 80 degrees. We'll see the overcast continue to pile in as we go throughout the morning and as we head into the afternoon, I can't rule out a few pockets of drizzle here and there. Heading into the overnight is when we see an area of low pressure riding a boundary. It doesn't look like we're going to see anything totally widespread, but I could stand to see some lighter rain showers moving in as we head toward the morning on Thursday. Thursday morning, most of our rain is going to be toward Virginia as our boundary starts to ride to the north. So that boundary being a warm front, there, you see we're in the upper 30s, lower 40s, first thing Thursday morning. Temperatures will be very slow to climb. By midday, we're probably in the 50s, and then if we're fortunate enough to see that boundary go farther north, we'll see highs in the 60s. But that kind of warm front is going to be in and out of here as we go through the next few days, and it's going to cause Temperatures to ebb and flow. When it's farther north, we're warmer. When it's farther south, we're cooler. So the weekend, Saturday will probably be 55 to 60, where Super Bowl Sunday, we're forecasting near record highs, 70s in Raleigh at 74, Fayetville potentially 78 degrees. Could be a few stray showers on Super Bowl Sunday, especially as we get closer to kickoff. So something to keep in mind, although daytime temperatures will be in the 70s out there. Then as we head into next week, things will really start to cool off again, and that seems to be a little more consistent. So the temperature roller coaster continues to go up and down pretty chaotically as we go through the next 5 days, but then it'll start to feel a little bit more like February, heading into the early portion of next week.

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