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WATCH: Mild week ahead, weekend rain chance may include storms

Meteorologist Brian Slocum has your Tuesday forecast

WATCH: Mild week ahead, weekend rain chance may include storms

Meteorologist Brian Slocum has your Tuesday forecast

TIME I LIKE IT TOO, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. I DON’T KNOW, CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA. CERTAINLY LOOKING A LITTLE WARM THIS WEEK. IT’S NOT GOING TO FEEL MUCH LIKE MARCH. WE’VE GOT SOME APRIL AND MAY FEELING WEATHER IN THE FORECAST FOR MUCH OF THIS WEEK. WE’VE GOT A WARM FRIDAY FORECAST TOO, BUT RAIN’S GOING TO START TO RETURN TO THE AREA. MAY INCLUDE SOME THUNDERSTORMS LATER IN THE DAY ON FRIDAY, POSSIBLY SOME MORE RAIN ON SUNDAY OR AT LEAST LATER IN THE WEEKEND. BUT WE’RE STILL FINE TUNING THAT PART OF THE FORECAST. DRESS WARM THIS MORNING IS IS NICE AS TODAY IS GOING TO BE. DON’T SLEEP ON THE FACT THAT WE’VE GOT SEVERAL AREAS WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW FREEZING THIS MORNING. DENTON AT 31, SALISBURY AT 30, AS IS MOCKSVILLE. WE HAVE A 31 DEGREE READING IN YADKINVILLE. MOST TRIAD TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S, ESPECIALLY IN GUILFORD AND FORSYTH COUNTY. FARTHER WEST. CHECK IT OUT! BOONE AND JEFFERSON, BOTH IN THE LOW TO MID 40S. THIS MORNING. A GOOD SIGN THAT ALL OF US WILL BE WARMING UP TODAY. THAT’S USUALLY KIND OF A PRECURSOR WHEN THEY’RE WARMER THAN THE TRIAD, IT USUALLY MEANS THAT TEMPERATURES ARE WARMING UP FOR ALL. WE’VE GOT A FEW CLOUDS AROUND, BUT NOT MANY PRETTY CLEAR SKY ACROSS THE BOARD. I’VE GOT WALL TO WALL SUNSHINE IN TODAY’S FORECAST. I MEAN, LOOK AT THAT. WE DON’T HAVE MANY CLOUDS AT ALL EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. A FEW MORE MOVING THROUGH THE ROCKIES, HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL. IN FACT, RAISING SOME FROST AND FREEZE CONCERNS OVER PORTIONS OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA. STILL, SOME RESIDUAL FLOOD WARNINGS ALONG SOME OF THE RIVERS THERE AS WELL. FROM THE WEEKEND RAIN. WE DO HAVE A WEAK SYSTEM THAT’S OVER THE MIDWEST, CREATING SOME CLOUDS BUT NO WET WEATHER. OUR NEXT STORM FOR LATER THIS WEEK IS KIND OF HUGGING THE CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON STATE COASTLINES THIS MORNING. THAT’S GOING TO MAKE THAT 30,000 MILE TREK ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND TRY TO BRING SOME RAIN INTO THE CAROLINAS BY LATER THIS WEEK. HIGH NEAR 70, CONTINUALLY IMPROVING OUR TEMPERATURES EACH DAY THIS WEEK, WE’VE GOT A WEST WIND AT ABOUT 5 TO 10MPH. WILL BE IN THE 60S AT AROUND LUNCHTIME, PERHAPS HAVE SOME LUNCH OUTSIDE TODAY, EVEN DINNERTIME TEMPERATURES LOOK PRETTY GOOD. OF COURSE, THE SUN’S OUT LATER. NOW THAT WE SPRING FORWARD, SPRING FORWARD, SPRING FORWARD. YOU DECIDE. TEMPERATURES UPPER 60S IN THE FOOTHILLS TODAY ACROSS SURRY AND STOKES COUNTY. WEST WINDS AT ABOUT 5 TO 10MPH. CLOSE TO 60 IN MANY OF OUR MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS. NORTHWEST BREEZE AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 AS WELL, LOOKING AT LATER THIS WEEK AGAIN, CLOUDS RETURN ON THURSDAY OR AT LEAST START TO. WE’LL HAVE A WET WEATHER PASSING THROUGH THE AREA THAT COULD INCLUDE A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO INTO EARLY SATURDAY, AND THEN IT REMAINS PRETTY UNSETTLED HEADING INTO SUNDAY. STILL WORKING OUT THE FINER POINTS. SUNDAY, INCIDENTALLY, IS SAINT PATRICK’S DAY. WE’LL HAVE A HIGH NEAR 70, BUT SOME RAIN AROUND A WEE BIT OF IRISH WEATHER FOR THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS AS TEMPERATURES FALL BACK INTO THE 60S, BUT TEMPERATURES TRENDING WARMER THIS WEEK. CHECK OUT THURSDAY FRIDAY MID TO UPPER 70S. EACH OF THOS
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WATCH: Mild week ahead, weekend rain chance may include storms

Meteorologist Brian Slocum has your Tuesday forecast

Chilly start to a beautiful Tuesday. Highs return the 70s today and for much of this week. Rain chances return this weekend and may include strong to severe storms

Chilly start to a beautiful Tuesday. Highs return the 70s today and for much of this week. Rain chances return this weekend and may include strong to severe storms

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