Scattered showers and thunderstorms will riddle the forecast this morning into the early afternoon as a slow moving low pressure center advances toward the east coast.  Some locations could pick up on a half inch to an inch of rain, while others may just miss the showers all together.

The showers chances will door this afternoon as some dryer and cooler air aloft moves over eastern NC.  Highs will briefly move into the mid 70s as the break in showers moves through.

Tuesday we will have another chance at showers and embedded thunderstorms as the low finally exits the coast.  Mid week will embrace the return of mostly sunny skies and daytime temperatures back into the seasonable upper 70s and low 80s,

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This is getting a bit ridiculous don't you think?  Not just the feel of the afternoon cool temperatures, but take a look at the numbers. 

Today will be the eighth day in a row of below normal temperatures.  Nine and ten are highly likely as well as we go into Friday and Saturday. That by itself is unusual.   

In fact today, with highs pushing toward the mid 50s, it won't feel all that bad out of the wind and that just goes to show how out of touch we are with normal temperatures.  Usually on this day in March our high temperature hits 70F.  70F!

While it can't stay cold forever, March is going to go down on paper as a colder than normal month.  So far this month only five days have our average temperatures been above normal.