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"Bundle up if you will be spending any length of time outdoors since the wind will have a definitive bite to it," said WRAL meteorologist Mike Maze. Saturday afternoon will be about 20 degrees cooler than Friday's high of 67.

<b>RALEIGH, N.C.</b> — Fans at local college football games and holiday shoppers around the area will need to dress in layers Saturday, as temperatures rise from an overnight low close to the freezing mark into the mid-40s by afternoon.

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Hi, everyone. Happy Thursday, meteorologist, Anthony Bag Leone here in the WRL SE Weather center, we are on track to see a really nice day if you like temperatures close to normal sunshine. No rainfall expected for us today. Although we could use a little bit more. It is a little bit dry. Our latest drought monitor is showing that across most of the viewing area. We go to 74 though this afternoon, it'll come with a lot of sunshine, maybe some clouds floating on by. But other than that really no big problems for you today. A pretty normal stretch for this the next couple of days or normal 75 below that tomorrow. But close enough, we get to 81 on Sunday, 86 on Monday and then that continues into next week. That will be our weather story next week is definitely some warmer weather and pretty calm with minimal rain chances. Tuesday is really the only chance I have at this point. We of course, have the Durham Bulls though playing at home Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Even into Sunday, we have Dollar dog night bark at the park tonight. I think it's gonna be probably pretty packed temperatures at 71 upper sixties tomorrow. 72 on Saturday, zero rain chances for any of those games. So it's gonna be a really, I think probably busy time at the DB A here into the weekend. 68 for Brugal. Also happening tomorrow as you're headed out there 67 at seven o'clock, sixties for the majority of that forecast looks like, probably partly to mostly cloudy skies. Saturday. Very similar. Just a couple degrees warmer at 74 at four o'clock and then still 78 at eight o'clock in the evening, we head over the next seven. You see temperatures really not moving too much. The next couple of days we get to Monday. That's when we start to climb 8688 on Tuesday and Tuesday during the afternoon into Tuesday evening. That's when we could see a few areas of rain. It doesn't look like a big system right now. But when we have no other chances in the forecast, that's at least the only one that we are watching right now and still warm there into Wednesday at 87.

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A cold front pushed Friday's sunny warmth away in favor of a much cooler outlook for the next seven days. Only on Monday is the temperature forecast to reach 60.

Saturday will be sunny, but a wind from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph will hold the temperature in check.  

"We'll only see about a 10 to 15 degree difference from our morning low," Maze said.

Those winds and clear skies will also set the stage for the coldest morning of the season Sunday, when most areas will see the first true hard freeze of the winter. Sunday will be sunny and cold, but without the windy bite of Saturday.

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