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Monday's WRAL Weather Alert Day is in effect due to rain during the morning commute. A wintry mixing will be possible near the Virginia state line.

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Happy Sunday. I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels here in the WRAL Severe Weather Center. Monday's going to be a WRAL weather alert day, even though most of this storm is, is mostly wet. The wintry mess is really going to be farther to our north, but with a lot of us heading back to school and work, we know this could be impactful to your morning commute. So again, that wintry mess is going to be well to our north with multiple precipitation types, especially throughout Virginia here. It's mainly rain, but we see this brief potential for some light icing near the Virginia state line. And then even Monday evening could see a few flurries or sleet pellets again, close to the Virginia state line. So there you see the ice accumulation forecast. The pink is where you see that again, it's mostly north and west of our area, but some patchy light glazing is going to be possible in person, Granville, Vance, Warren Mecklenburg counties. Uh, that's really going to be Overnight tonight into very early Monday. Now even this afternoon, there's this ribbon of moisture that tries to move through. We've got a lot of dry air at the surface, so I don't necessarily think a lot of that is going to make it down, but even still, that's mainly north of the triangle. Heading into the overnight hours there you see in the pink that potential for some light icing as you get closer to the Virginia state line and then temperatures rise as we head into the. Overnight after 8 a.m. or so, we'll see this line of rain moving through. This is just going to be chilly rain for portions of the morning commute. Then showers turn a little more scattered Monday afternoon. Monday evening, you see north and east of the triangle, that chance for a few snow showers. So after that, the wind really starts to pick up and we see wind chills in the teens Tuesday morning and the cold air settles in. High temperatures have a hard time getting out of the 30s heading into the rest of the week, at which point another storm system tries to come in and you're looking at the potential for it to turn wintry Friday into Saturday, but it's all about storm path. For today, high temperatures will be about 44 to 49. Overnight we'll be in the 30s and then as we go through the rest of the week ahead, very cold, dry through Thursday. Again, we'll watch that potential system heading into next Saturday.

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