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We're bracing for light snow and some of the coldest air we've had in two years, prompting a WRAL Weather Alert Day for Tuesday and Wednesday.



Light snow incoming, coldest temps in over 2 years prompt WRAL Weather Alert Days

Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Looking at a very chilly day for us today. We had a milder weekend, but that colder air is pushing in right now. So a high of only 34 in Raleigh, 33 in Durham, and 38 in Fayetteville, and we'll also have a wind chill to go with it. It's going to feel more like upper 20s to right around 30 in places, and then turning colder overnight tonight. Very cold. Temperatures in the teens, 16 southern pines, 18 in Goldsboro, 15 South Hill 12. Roxborough, but with the wind chill, it's likely to feel like single digits. So tomorrow is a WRL weather alert day. We're going to see these very cold temperatures and wind chills to wake up to tomorrow morning. So it'll feel like 8 in southern Pines, Fayetteville and Clinton, 9 in Durham and Rocky Mount, 10 in Roxborough. So just bitterly cold to start with. So we do have a cold weather advisory that's in effect for late tonight, early tomorrow because of those bitter wind chills. Just keep that in mind. It's, you know, just going to be one of those days you don't want to spend too much time. outside. Late Tuesday, we start to see the clouds thickening up a little bit. There's 5 a.m. It's pretty quiet during the day tomorrow. It's just going to be very, very cold. And then we've been talking about the potential for some snow. This continues to look like a coastal system or that it just remains offshore completely. So we don't have a lot of chance for much accumulating snow out of this. At 7 o'clock, we may see a few flurries from Raleigh southward and eastward, maybe up around Rocky Mount down towards Southern Pines, Fayetteville and Clinton, um, parts of Samson. do have the potential to see up to 1 inch of snow, but the rest of the viewing area is likely to be under 1 inch, but it has been cold, and so anything that falls will stick and it could cause some slick conditions for us for tomorrow night and Wednesday morning. So Wednesday is also a WRL weather alert day. Perhaps a half an inch in Fayetteville, maybe a quarter of an inch and the triangle, and then you get up closer to the Virginia line and it's nothing. It's just a real reversal for what we normally see. Could be a couple of inches right along the coast. Maybe up to 3 inches or so, but again, for our viewing area, it is looking like less than 1 inch. So this is a look at sort of what we're expecting. The bulk of this storm will be offshore, and so that's why it's more likely that we'll see some snow closer to the coast, less than 1 inch, um, but again, what does fall could definitely stick. Our temperatures will be in the 30s for afternoon highs close to freezing all the way through Thursday, so I'll just get used to this cold.

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