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Thursday will be a cooler but pleasant day. Patchy frost is likely Friday morning, in addition to a Frost Advisory that will begin late Thursday evening and last until 8 a.m. Then temperatures will be above average this weekend ahead of a big cooldown.


Comfortably cool Thursday before a Friday frost advisory that comes ahead of a warmer weekend

<p>I'm WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. We are warming up for the weekend. Check this out. 72 degrees to close out the workweek. It's mostly sunny and a beautiful Friday this weekend, mid to perhaps even upper 70s, but I do have some updates to tell you about your weekend forecast. We bumped up rain chances Saturday night into Sunday and we lowered rain chances Friday night into Saturday morning. We've got a couple of fronts that are on the way. Right now we're in between fronts. High pressure controlling our local weather, so it's a beautiful day. But behind the dry cold front that passed through last night, it'll be a couple degrees cooler out there today compared to yesterday. However, it's still going to be really, really nice, especially in the sunshine, and it's not so windy. Highs are in the mid to upper 60s today. After school practices look great. 5 o'clock, 59 degrees by 7 o'clock. 51, not too bad for November. Town by town tonight though. We cool back off. We could be looking at some patchy frost in our cooler locations and more sheltered locations as well, like Roxboro, up to parts of Chatham County, South Hill Rocky Mountain, even 36, 39 in Raleigh, 38 in Durham, and 42 in Fayetteville. Let's take a look at your 3 day forecast. A beautiful stretch of weather on the way. Try to get some outdoor time in over the next two days. Just a heads up though, Saturday night into Sunday is trending weather.</p>

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