Greensboro, NC -- A weak area of low pressure will develop from the Gulf of Mexico and move up the southeast into Thursday.
While cold rain will primarily the case, we can't rule out a small chance for that cold rain to turn into a rain, snow/sleet mix. There's a small chance of this into late Thursday into the overnight.
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No accumulation is expected, given both the brevity of any such occurrence and the preceding warm ground and above freezing surface temperatures.
There's a better chance of seeing this winter weather turn over for the Mountain communities.
As a result, the National Weather Service issued a "Hazardous Weather Outlook" at 5 pm on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013.
The counties that could be affected are: Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Forsyth Guilford, Alamance, Orange, Durham, Franklin, Nash, Edgecombe, Davidson, Randolph, Chatham, Wake, Johnston, Wilson, Stanly, Montgomery, Moore, Lee and Harnett.