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Get ready for some frigid air this weekend. The wind chill will have us in the teens and 20s on Saturday morning.


Bitter cold, gusty wind settle in Saturday; chance for wintry mix Monday

Happy Saturday. I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels here in the WRA Els Severe Weather Center. Today's cold and windy. Lots of sunshine, but looks can be deceiving. Temperatures only top out in the upper 30s and lower 40s. And there's more clouds tomorrow, temperatures mid-40s, and a stray afternoon shower. This is with a system that's going to be a mess to our north. Even here we could see a brief wintry mix late Sunday night north of the triangle with Hardly any impact and then even again Monday evening could wind up seeing a brief period of very light snow in those pink counties. But aside from that, this is mostly a wet weather system for us. So let's head into Sunday afternoon. Futurecast is showing some precipitation trying to move through, but a lot of that is going to dry out as it does so just because the air right now is very dry at the ground level. Here's Sunday night and you see that a little bit of a pain. Especially toward Mecklenburg, Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, and Northampton counties, but beyond that we turn drier heading into the overnight and into Monday. Then by Monday morning after 7 or 8 o'clock, that's when we see mainly just some rain pushing through and most of that is out of here as we head into Monday afternoon. But beyond that it is going to get very cold. You're looking at lows in the teens and 20s and highs in the 30s. Low 40s. At the same time, a storm system is going to try and develop near the Gulf Coast. Where exactly that goes is a question mark heading into next Friday and next Saturday. That's to be expected 6 to 7 days out. If this were to ride the Appalachians, we'd see more rain. If it were to ride the coast, there'd be more wintry weather potential. And if it were to go even farther south, then the moisture might not even reach us. So here's where we stand. 7 days out or so, you look for patterns. Then the next couple of days, we'll see if that potential is trending up or down, and then we'll go from there. So keep it with us uh for updates over the course of the next 7 days, just know it is going to get very cold here, especially as we go beyond Monday.

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