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Thursday morning windchills will be in the 8 to 15 range across the area. This is setting us up for a wintry mix on Friday night into Saturday morning.

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<p>I'm meteorologist Amy Wout in the WRELs Severe Weather Center. We have a cold weather advisory tonight. That's because we're going to have some fairly dangerous wind chills, and this is for the entire viewing area from 7 p.m. until 9 a.m. Wind chills will be in the single digits and teens across the area. So it's going to be very cold tonight. This is the actual air temperature, the lows for tonight, down to 17 in Roxboro, 20 in Durham, 22 in Raleigh, 22 in Fayetteville. But we will have some dangerous wind chills, perhaps 7 in Roxborough, 9 in South Hill, 13 in Raleigh, 10 in Southern Pines. So it is going to be a very cold night tonight. Make sure you have a warm place for the pets to be and make sure you're checking on the elderly. Hopefully everyone can stay warm, but it is going to be very cold overnight tonight with the wind chill in the teens and again maybe even in the single digits. So make sure you bundle up as you head out the door early tomorrow morning. No, we have a pretty big impact event that's going to happen as we kick off the weekend. It's a winter storm that's going to bring us a wintry mix, maybe all snow for extreme northern parts of the area, but it is going to be a mess as we get into, especially Friday night and early Saturday morning. A driving will be hazardous, so try to stay home if you can Friday night. It's not going to be any fun to be on the roads with the wintry mix. We could have sleet, freezing rain, snow, we could have all of it. The system is still really far away. It's still on the west coast, but it will arrive here on Friday. There is really good model agreement. As to when it's going to arrive on Friday, late afternoon into the evening is when it will arrive. Here's a look at the clouds, the precipitation, and the temperatures, and this is high resolution model data. It only goes out until 1 a.m. Saturday, and then we'll have to go to a different model after that. But this is high resolution model data, which is new today. At noon on Friday we're still fine. The system's still to the west of us, but it's cold with temperatures in the 30s. And then by around 4 o'clock or so, high resolution model data bringing in some rain to the area. And then that will be followed by a wintry mix and perhaps a changeover to snow in the areas that you see shaded in blue, wintry mix in pink, and perhaps rain or freezing. Rain in green as we head toward Friday night at 11 o'clock, we'll have a wintry mix, some snow in spots, and some freezing rain in some spots, and this is going to continue into Saturday morning. This is 10 a.m. on Saturday morning. Temperatures are at or below freezing across a good part of the area. That's where the high resolution model data ends. So this is now not high resolution data. But it still gets us through the day on Saturday, so we'll let this go forward in time and notice how we still have the wintry mix and a little bit of snow at 5 a.m. Saturday. Same thing at 8 a.m., although it's starting to move out of our western counties, and then it's really gone by about 10 o'clock in the morning. So this is really going to be Friday night and Saturday morning that we're dealing with the biggest impacts from this storm system. So how much snow could we get? The areas in white, the northern half, 1 to 2 inches of snow. The area in blue, a trace to an inch of snow will be possible. And then looking at the ice forecast, because we could have some freezing rain, we could have just a small amount in the area you see shaded in the light pink and then up to about 10% for the southern half of the area. So travel is not going to be fun as You are making your Friday night plans, you might want to just stay at home, order pizza, watch a movie. We have weather alert days for Friday and Saturday. The weather's quieter Sunday, but any lingering moisture will freeze Saturday night into Sunday morning, 22 for the low, so just keep that in mind. But then we're back up to about 50 on Monday, but it's followed by colder air again with highs back in the 40s for Tuesday and Wednesday.</p>

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