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A cold front that arrives on Tuesday evening could bring a few showers. The WRAL Weather team is forecasting a 30% chance of showers, beginning at 7 p.m.

Warm, sunny during the day Tuesday before cold front brings chance of showers

<p>Hello everyone. I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Monday night. We had a cooler day than what we had over the weekend. It was 81 Saturday. It was 79 yesterday. today in Raleigh, we had 70 added RDU. Now it will be a cooler start for your Tuesday morning than what we awoke to this morning. 38 at Roxboro, 42 in Durham, 44 in Raleigh, 43 at Rocky Mount, 43 at Goldsboro, 47 in Fayetteville. This morning it was 48 at RDU. It was 51 at Fayette. So yeah, here is your cooler start. So let's talk about how interesting tomorrow will be. Starting off chilly, you'll need your jackets in the morning, 44. Later in the afternoon, we soar up to 78. That's the potential with our strong southwest wind, and if we have enough sunshine, then after that, a cold front comes in. We'll talk about that in a moment. At the bus stop in the morning, chilly start, 44, the kids will need the jackets, and they're going to be standing out at the bus stop, 46 by 8. By 10 a.m. we're up to about 57. An hour by hour tomorrow, breezy and warmer winds from the southwest 10 to 15 MPH. At lunchtime, we're at 70, 78 by 3, and notice the raindrops, 7 and 8 o'clock. We'll see this in a moment with Futurecast, uh, what's coming along. And here we go. So this is the time stamp for 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Quite a bit of cloud cover. Here comes the front. It lines up between Greensboro and Charlotte. You can see the little convergence and the streamlines there. That's where the front will be. And so there's about a 30, maybe 40% chance for some brief showers moving through. 78, the high in Raleigh, 80 in Fayetteville, and most of the day will be bright. It's not until the evening that it really starts to cloud up. So if you're heading to the state fair, here is your midway forecast. Lunchtime again, we see 70, 78 by 4, 20% chance for a shower at 668, 30% chance for a shower, 61 by 8 o'clock. Don't think it will be quite so cool on the midway Tuesday evening than what we had this evening. So let's take a look at what we expect for Wednesday. We have a west wind. Typically when we have a west wind, that's a downslope flow off the mountains, and we tend to be warm. I'm going 73, but some of the newer models coming in this evening have 76, 77 for the high, so we may have to raise that. And then for Thursday it's cooler, more of a northwest wind, which is a cooler wind. 70 in Raleigh, 73 in Fayetteville, 69 at Rocky Mount, 57 at Boone, 74 at Wilmington. And with the air being dry. The skies being clear and the winds being light, if not calm Friday morning. These are our forecast lows. It should be the coldest start this week. 35 at Roxboro, 38 at Lewisburg, 39 at Rocky Mount, 39 in Sanford. It's possible it could be cooler than this. We'll get a better idea as more high resolution model data comes in tomorrow and especially on Wednesday. So overnight tonight, it's a little cooler. There are your lows, upper 30s to upper 40s in Fayetteville and Clinton, 43 at Goldsboro, 44 in Southern Pines, and then for the day tomorrow, breezy and warmer, upper 70s to low 80s. We'll call it partly to mostly sunny. Now there are signs that next week could be wetter. Uh, the weather prediction, I should say the Climate Prediction Center is calling for above normal precipitation chances, and it looks like a pretty decent chance the way it stands right now. So let's hope that happens. That's our forecast update. Have a great night. I'll see you tomorrow.</p>

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