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Tuesday morning will be a WRAL Weather Alert Day due to the potential for ice on the roads and bone-chilling temperatures.


ð¨WRAL WEATHER ALERT DAYð¨ Slick spots, school delays continue Tuesday morning as temps dip into 20s

Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. We had a little bit of snow overnight last night, especially along the I-85 corridor, and then up around Roanoke Rapids and even around Wilson and Rocky Mountain. Uh just a little bit of wraparound moistures as temperatures started to fall yesterday. So do be careful as you're headed out this morning. Temperatures are cold. Most of the roads dried out yesterday and that almost gives you a false sense of security because you may be coming around a corner and there's just a little bit of moisture there that becomes slick, especially north and east of. The triangle. Again, not widespread, but it could be, especially as we get uh into the morning commute. How about our wind chill, it's gonna be cold out there. Temperatures at 8 and 9 o'clock, likely to feel like the upper teens, and then middle of the afternoon, likely feeling like 35, 36. Actual highs are only in the low 40s, so real chilly day today, but lots of sunshine. We have clear skies this morning, so we have the tower lit in blue to signify the clear skies and temperatures this afternoon, well below normal. 42 in Raleigh, 41 in Durham and 45 and Fayetteville, our normal highs this time of year or closer to 50 degrees. We're still watching that potential for some wintry precipitation over the weekend, and, uh, the scenarios really haven't changed. If that low is north of us, it's all going to be rain. If that low is south of us, we're definitely going to have some wintry precipitation, probably some snow, and there'll be, you know, uh, that rain snow line that develops in a narrow band of maybe some wintry mix along with that. Um, so we're looking at Friday night into Saturday, uh, both of the models show the potential for some wintry precipitation, but again, just a little shift in the track of that low will mean a big difference for what we see here. So we're going to be watching for that very carefully. In the meantime, between now and Friday, it's just cold. Thursday, we won't even make it out of the 30s. Overnight lows are in the 20s, so some cold air will be in place definitely for us. And so it's all going to be, you know, just in terms of the track of the low. Uh, so, we'll keep our eye on that. We still have cold air in our forecast, uh, well into next week. Keep checking back frequently for the latest on what could happen for us this weekend.

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