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Cold and snow to come! A Winter Storm Watch will be in effect Friday and Saturday during a burst of snow, sleet and freezing rain.

WRAL Weather Alert Day for Friday and Saturday ahead of snow, sleet, freezing rain

<p>Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here tracking our next system coming in for tomorrow into early this weekend. Winter storm watch is outlined there for our Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, including our entire viewing area for up to about 3 inches of snow for our far northern counties and then generally 1 to 3 inches for most of us. Down to the south of the triangle ice up to about a quarter of an inch. So that could certainly cause some issues. Here's Futurecast though, we go into our Friday morning. We're still looking good to go through Friday afternoon is when we start to see this precipitation pushing in, mainly in the form of some rain early on, and then as we get later on in the evening, it'll switch over to some snow, potentially a wintry mix. And then that continues through tomorrow night, tapering off though by about 7 or so on Saturday morning. Roads could certainly still be slick though on Saturday morning. We're looking at about 1 inch to 3 inches from Raleigh northward and then less than 1 inch for our southern counties. So just please be careful on the roads. It could be a little bit slick. Icing potential there. From areas south of the triangle up to a quarter of an inch and then lesser amounts from the triangle to the north. Everyone though still could be a little bit slick across our entire viewing area. Things start to quiet down though into late Saturday morning, 38 degrees for us on Friday, 43 on Saturday, 42 on Sunday, upper 40 still as we head through the majority of next week. the</p>

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