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Refreezing north of Raleigh has led to more school delays and closings Monday morning.

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Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Of course, it's a cold start out there. Temperatures are mostly in the mid to upper twenties, so any of the, uh, the moisture that was left on the roads could still be frozen out there. There's not going to be a lot of it this morning, but, you know, it only takes one slick spot to, uh, you know, cause an accident. So there are a few delays for schools this morning, especially up near the Virginia line as well as Durham and Orange County. So, uh, check here on WREL.com or be sure to Tune in to WRAL today. Today is a great day to be watching on television as the sun comes up, we'll have a better idea of where those slick spots are. Bitterly cold air arrives again on Wednesday and Thursday, and then we have a chance of some showers over the weekend. If you were hoping to get out and about. Saturday in particular, it looks pretty wet. Slick and icy spots are possible until 10 o'clock for Durham and Orange County and then all the counties that border Virginia. This is what we call. Special weather statement that the National Weather Service issues where it doesn't quite reach the criteria for a warning or an advisory or a watch, but it's a special weather statement. Roxborough has a lot of snow on the sidewalk still some snow piled up on the sides of the roads, but in downtown everything's looking just fine. So again, it's just a few icy patches here or there. Temperatures are in the low 30s in the triangle, but looking at upper 20s and a lot of spots, 28, Rocky Mountain. And uh Goldsboro 29 and Clinton and Southern Pines. Those are the temperatures heading out the door this morning. Checking our temperature change, of course, the blue area is where temperatures are below normal, and notice how it turns purple again for Wednesday and Thursday. So that cold air comes in. But notice how we start to warm up, the yellows and the oranges begin to creep in just in time for the weekend, meaning this next system will all be rain. But 22 on Wednesday morning, 20 on Thursday morning. I mean, 25 tomorrow morning. It's all really cold. Uh, so it may be that the Weather Service issues another cold weather advisory for us. Um, that means it's dang dangerously cold, and then a warning, which is unlikely means that um hypothermia and frostbite are possible. But look at these wind chills. Wednesday morning at 12 in Roxboro and South Hill, 20 in Fayetteville and Clinton, and then on Thursday morning, pretty similar to 16. 27 Fayetteville. So some really cold wind chills in our forecast. But we still had some pretty snow pictures sent to us. Mark Klein and Warren County sent us this. Um, go right here to WRL.com/report it to send us any photos that you would like to share. 52 today, that's gonna be uh the warmest day for the next few as we dropped down to 39 on Wednesday. But back to 53 Friday, and we're in the 50s, Saturday and Sunday with some showers.

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