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Friday morning brings the first frost advisory of the season for central North Carolina. We could see temperatures go as low as the low 30s overnight.

Frost advisory in effect for central NC through Friday morning

Hello everyone, I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Thursday evening. The first frost of the season, or at least the first frost advisory, I should say, being issued for part of the viewing area starting at 3 a.m. lasting through 9 a.m. If you're in the frost advisory, it's possible your low temperatures could be in the low to mid-30s, could see a light scattered frost. If this is the case for you. Then you want to protect those sensitive plants that you that you have set outside, either cover them up or bring them inside. Here are some of the forecast lows, low 30s for Roxboro, upper 30s for Durham, 40 in Raleigh, mid-30s at Rocky Mount, low 40s for Goldsboro, and also Fayetteville. We suspect it will be colder for your Saturday morning. More 30s will show up. It could be colder in some locations around the triangle, at least at RDU. We expect about 38, 40 at Fayetteville, 36 at Goldsboro, and we anticipate another potential for some frost on a more widespread basis. Now, as of right now, there's no frost advisory that's been issued for Saturday. That would be issued sometime during the day on Friday. We'll let you know about that when we find out. So on the morning of the bus stop, bright skies, 41 at 8 by 10 a.m. 54, an hour by hour. Tomorrow it will be a cooler day. We had 71 at RDU today with 72 at Fayetteville. We expect upper 60s, won't have the wind that we had today. Winds will be from the Northwest 5 to 10 MPH. So let's check out the final fair weekend, 40 in the morning, 69 later in the afternoon. Saturday, 38 for the low, 68 the high, and on Sunday, we'll expect mostly cloudy skies, 40 to the low, about 65. Now, we see a flip in the weather pattern coming up next week, where it has been so dry over the past two weeks when dry weather. Which has been great for the state fair, but our drought is spreading across the state now and moderate drought for much of our area. Our eastern counties are in a severe drought. There is rain on the horizon. This is the rainfall potential for the next 7 days. And of course this is more for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week when we expect the rain in the area. Uh, northern part of the viewing area 1.5 to 2 inches, western part 1.5 to 2. Down east toward the coast, 2 to 3. The mountains could see 3 to 4 inches of rain per this latest forecast. We'll watch to see how this evolves in the coming days. No doubt the numbers will probably change somewhat by the time we get to Monday. So it's cooler overnight, lows in the 30s to low 40s, 39 Goldsboro, 39 at Southern Pines, and watch out for the potential for some frost. A tad cooler tomorrow with mid-60s in the northern counties, upper 60s around the triangle, 72 in Fayetteville. Looks like a good weekend, a dry weekend, but again, rain should move into the area Monday, lasting through Tuesday and Wednesday. It's possible those days the highs could only be in the 50s. I'm Mike Mays in the North Carolina News Network Weather Center. That's your update. Have a great night.

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