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The temperature starts to dip again before dawn on Monday, and most of the week will see more typical early December highs in the 50s.

Clearing out overnight; Dry air returns this week

<p>Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here certainly been a kind of messy weekend as far as some drizzle the cloud cover, but definitely warm temperatures has kind of been a big theme for us too where we go from here though. We do look a lot better as we head into the upcoming week. We're going to start to see the cloud cover push on out behind a cold front that comes through into tonight and early tomorrow temperature wise here heading into tonight and early Monday morning, it will be chilly though forties for most of us, even a few low fifties to the south. If you're headed out early, heading to work, heading to school, I would have the coat and pack the jackets tomorrow morning. I think it's gonna be probably needed. We go through the day itself though after the potential of some morning fog that will burn off and we should be looking better with some sunshine tomorrow afternoon even into tonight. Like I said, the cloud cover starts to push on out. We should be nice and dry and futurecast continues to show that cloud cover pushing out there after midnight early on our Monday and then we should see a lot of sunshine here to start tomorrow morning. Maybe a few more clouds tomorrow afternoon as kind of an upper level system passes by. That will not have a big impact on us though. We're at 60 in Roxboro. Tomorrow 61 South Hill, upper sixties to the south, right around the low to mid sixties in the triangle at the beaches. Still a very warm day here for where we should be. 70 Wilmington 66 Wrightsville. We're at 62 in nags head and winds will be relatively calm. Could be a little bit breezy. Maybe up to 15 mile per hour gusts really near normal week though, for us, 58 is our normal. We're gonna hit that on Tuesday below that by Wednesday and Thursday 61 as we head into Friday, looking at maybe a light chance of a shower Tuesday night into Wednesday. It shouldn't amount to much, but I just want to make you aware that we could see that potential at least low fifties. On Wednesday, the first day of Hanukkah, there should be dry at 53 morning temperatures back in the thirties and then next weekend, our focus then shifts to a potential system late Saturday night into Sunday. It does look at this point on Sunday that we could have some showers and maybe some thunderstorms around. So if you have any plans, that's gonna be kind of our next day to watch. Other than that, I hope all of you have a great upcoming week. Enjoy the sunshine tomorrow after the clouds that we saw this past weekend.</p>

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