The low pressure center which crossed Mecklenburg county late Saturday afternoon deposited over an inch of rain in some local gauges. That weather system dragged two separate cold fronts across the county as shown on this graph from the South Hill airport:
The first boundary crossed the airport gauge at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, followed by the second front at 5:00 a.m. this - Sunday - morning. (The drops in both temperature and dew point are the indicators.) As that storm strengthens into a true nor'easter later today westerly winds will kick up to 30 mph or so. Meanwhile, temperatures this afternoon will top out in the mid-50s under sunny skies. That is cooler than the average for this date, given that today is the first day of the year for the average high to reach 60 degrees.
Monday will continue the cool and breezy trend as that nor'easter slowly creeps further north across New England. But after tomorrow's highs in the upper 50s the remainder of the work week looks to warm up quickly. Under mostly sunny skies afternoon temperatures will reach the 70s by midweek! The next chance of rain will arrive sometime Friday afternoon.
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