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Highs will only reach the mid 60s Sunday, and afternoons will be even cooler to start the work week as rain chances return.

Chilly with building clouds Sunday ahead of much-needed rain

Meteorologist Grant Skinner here in the Weather Center. We'll see cloud cover increase tonight and into Sunday ahead of better chances for scattered showers and chillier afternoons into next week. Tonight we'll drop into the 30s and 40s, 37 to start your Sunday in Roxboro, 42 in Raleigh, 41 in Fayetteville, 40 in Goldsboro. So it'll be on the chilly side, not quite as chilly as Saturday morning. Here's our state fair forecast for Sunday, the final day of the state fair, looking very comfortable. We'll need probably a light jacket, mid-60s by the afternoon, into the 50s into the evening, and we'll keep increased cloud cover throughout the day, mainly mid and upper level clouds. More low level cloud cover will start to move in into Monday and through really Wednesday and into early Thursday as our next weather maker approach. a couple of areas of low pressure develop. One closer to the coastline that will mainly bring rain in our into our southern spots, closer to Samson County, Cumberland County, and points south, and then another cold front will develop off of another area of low pressure that will move in, uh, by the middle or early Thursday, we'll see that better chance for rain then our highest rainfall totals are trending towards. Our western spots, but we'll finally get some much needed rain into the coming weeks. So, 50% rain chance late Monday and Tuesday, mainly for our southern spots. Another decent rain chance into Wednesday and Wednesday night, the rain starts to back off into early Thursday, and then we'll see drier conditions to end the week for Halloween. We'll talk about that forecast in a second for Halloween. But up to 2 inches of rain possible in our western spots. So anywhere from 1 to 2 inches across our area as our next weather maker approaches this week. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s for afternoon. So we'll be chilly in the afternoon into the coming week, uh, some isolated showers early Thursday, then drier for Halloween, highs in the low 60s, and the low to mid-50s for trick or treating Friday evening.

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