Rain Stays Away - FOX Carolina 21

Good morning - it's a cold, frosty start to the day across the area as temperatures have dropped into the 20s and 30s.  Bundle up!  By the afternoon, highs will return to seasonal levels - rising into the mid and upper 50s area-wide. 

We'll keep a very quiet weather pattern in place today and through the weekend, with mostly sunny to partly cloudy sky cover overhead through the weekend.  Temps will warm each afternoon - and by Monday they'll be about ten degrees above-normal.

While we could use the rain - we don't see any significant rain chances until the middle of next week, and even then I doubt we'll see a good washout.  On the other hand, parts of California are going to get DRENCHED through the weekend, as a moist Pacific flow will keep soaking rainfall over the northern part of the state.  Take a look at the 5-day rainfall total prediction from the NWS HPC - some parts of CA could see nearly a foot of rainfall by the end of the weekend!  Yikes!