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Friday begins a stretch of comfortable days heading into the Memorial Day weekend. The afternoons feature low humidity with high temperatures in the 70s. 

Cooler through Memorial Day Weekend, Monday trending drier

<p>Hi everyone. Happy almost Memorial Day weekend. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here with a sun-filled forecast as we take a look out at RDU. We should not have any big travel problems or really any travel problems across at least the state of North Carolina for us through the rest of today. Here is a look as far as temperatures are concerned. So, compared to the 83 we saw yesterday, we're gonna be a little bit below that at 75. It should be a gorgeous rest of our day, though, really, really nice, pretty refreshing air, Winds have come down a little bit. We look ahead to the Memorial Day weekend. So, overall, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, looking fine. We start to get some rain chances late on Sunday. Now, I'll talk about the timing here in just a 2nd. 75 degrees for Memorial Day on Monday with a chance for some showers and thunderstorms. I will say though that that coverage, at least the trend overall, is lower and lower, the more we look at the models here day after day. So that's some good news for plans. Beautiful Friday, beautiful Saturday, 40 p.m. overnight. We could see some showers, especially overnight on Sunday. Before noon on Monday, and then let's say late late morning, afternoon, even on Monday, we should be pretty good, I would say at this point. Here are the next 7 days, though, 75 degrees for us today, 77 tomorrow, 76 on Sunday. Sunday night looking pretty wet. Most of that coverage should start to move out into early Monday. We get to Tuesday, we're at 69, 75 into Wednesday, 81 by the time we get to our Thursday. So temperatures relatively close to normal for this time of the year. Those rain chances though will be with us into especially Sunday night and then Tuesday, Wednesday.</p>

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