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Christmas forecast: Chilly start, but should be a pleasant day for presents

Meteorologist Amy W in the WRELs Severe Weather Center. Christmas Day is looking good in the morning. Opening presents, temperatures will be a little chilly. We'll start the day with temperatures in the low 30s at 6 a.m., down to around 33 degrees. By 8 a.m., it's partly cloudy with the temperature at 37 and then 43 at 10 a.m. So overall pretty good weather in the forecast for Christmas morning and Christmas afternoon. Temperatures will warm up a little bit and it's dry. 52 in Raleigh and Durham, 50 in Rocky Mount, 54 for the high in Fayetteville. These temperatures are right on track for normal for this time of year, and Hanukkah gets underway at sunset on Wednesday on Christmas Day. Sunset is at 5:07. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s. We'll be down to 46 by 6 p.m. and down to 43 by 7 p.m., so nice weather to kick off Hanukkah as well. Temperatures will stay pretty close to normal for the next. Few days, but then we'll jump above normal by the time we get to the weekend. High temperatures near 60 on Saturday, 6 for Sunday, and 62 for highs on Monday and Tuesday. Now the 60s, that's going to come with some rain. We have rain back in the forecast over the weekend and into early next week. Friday looks to stay dry and most of Saturday looks dry as well, but a couple of spotty showers possible Saturday. Rain looks to be widespread on Sunday. As we head toward the second half of the weekend, we could have some heavy rain through the day on Sunday and maybe even some thunderstorms as well. That system moves away from us through the day on Monday, and then another system approaches the area on Tuesday, which is New Year's Eve. Now right now there's some model differences. It looks like we'll have some scattered showers, but some models show barely any rain at all. This model is the worst case scenario. It's the European model. It shows widespread rain. It looks like we could get anywhere from 0.5 inch to maybe 1 inch of rain with the system as it arrives. By the time we get to New Year's Eve. We do have that chance for some light rain. We'll keep you posted. Just keep checking back in. For Christmas Day and Hanukkah, the weather nice and quiet. It stays quiet through at least Friday, and then rain chances start to ramp back up late Saturday, continuing into Sunday. And then we have the chance for a few showers Monday and Tuesday as well.

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