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After a cool and dry Wednesday, we're going to have a chilly and wet day on Thursday, prompting a WRAL Weather Alert Day.



WRAL Weather Alert Day: Showers in store for Thursday morning commute ahead of chilly, wet afternoon

I'm w boreal meteorologist K Campbell. Finally, some decent rain is on the way. We could see between three quarters of an inch and just over an inch of rain. This is going to be beneficial rain. We're abnormally dry on the latest drought monitor and we really could use any rain that we could get. It's going to be a chilly rain though. So we have warned you, you're going to need a nice cold tomorrow and your umbrella as well. We for in the morning, 43 degrees at six and 7 a.m. by noon just in the low fifties and that's as warm as we get all day long. 53 the high in Raleigh future casts will start out the morning cloudy. There could be a couple of sprinkles around her in the morning. It's going to be light rain for the morning commute. So I wouldn't expect there to be a huge impact in terms of the roads, but the rain really fills in during the later morning hours and it's with us through the afternoon as kids head home from school at three o'clock on the bus, they're going to want to have their umbrella with them. And for folks heading home from work at 56 o'clock, there could start to be a couple pockets of heavier rain and that sticks with us late fri, uh, late Thursday evening into Thursday night, you can see all the red, some heavy and cold rain expected with temperatures in the forties as we toward the overnight hours and early Friday morning, we still have some rain sticking around. This should be lighter stuff, but it's with us through Friday morning and then the rest of the day looks dry, be cloudy, but there could be some slow clearing just enough for us to hit the low sixties Friday afternoon, Friday. It's a 30% chance for rain early 60 to the high. By Saturday, 66 and upper sixties on Sunday, it's all due to this cold front that we have approaching from the west and high pressure situated, keeping things chilly ahead of that moisture. We see the breeze cool down for the weekend where it feels a bit more like fall next week. We're in for a warm up early in the week though. We should be back in the seventies during the first half of next week, but there could be a more significant cool down with a bigger dip in the jet stream that may arrive by next weekend just in time for the Raleigh Christmas parade. It's potentially going to be our first of the season by the time this front passes through. So that's something we'll be monitoring very closely for you over the next week. In the meantime, we're going to be tracking Thursday's rain for you all day on WRL News. Plus. So check in for updates throughout the day. Some scattered showers early Friday before things clear out. It's breezy on Friday though. Saturday and Sunday, a beautiful dry weekend. Next week, we've got some seventies and some sunshine to look forward to and we'll watch for another front late next week.

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