'Tis the season for more cold fronts, taking us from "t-shirt time" to "Jack Frost nippin' at your nose" within a matter of hours. That's life in mid-autumn in North Carolina.

The strongest cold front of the fall is likely to pass through the state Sunday night.

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Ahead of it, we'll see highs in the 70s each afternoon this weekend. Behind it, the weather will feel cold enough even for Scrooges to put up the Christmas decorations.

(Okay, that's a bit of a stretch.)

Phasing of energy between one system near the Hudson Bay and another moving in from British Columbia will allow for cold air to dive down into the Southeastern U.S. starting Sunday night.

Once this Arctic air moves over relatively warm Great Lakes waters, the "lake effect snow machine" will get going. I

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