First Alert Forecast: a wet turn for January’s final weekend

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Good to see you! Your First Alert Forecast opens with some incoming changes. Thickening clouds are expected Sunday evening in association with a frontal boundary that will bring widespread rain Sunday night into Monday morning. Expect rain chances to grow to 80% by Sunday night and drought-denting rain tallies to sit mainly between 0.5-1.5 inches.

Shower chances will remain enhanced at 70% through early Monday afternoon before a brief dry period. More unsettled weather accompanies another front stalling over the Cape Fear through late this week. Cold air in wake of the front will drop highs into the 40s next Saturday.

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