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FXUS62 KILM 251820
AFDILM

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
120 PM EST Tue Nov 25 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
Well above-normal temperatures will continue with an occasional
shower possible through Wednesday. Arctic air will follow a
strong cold front Wednesday night leaving well below normal
temperatures and much drier air Thanksgiving Day through
Saturday. A warming trend will begin Sunday as high pressure
moves off the coast with increasing rain chances into next week.

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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
Coastal trough has moved ashore and along with it a SE wind and some
impressive temperature jumps along the coast. In the resulting WAA a
small patch of rain is moving up the SC coast and most guidance has
increased the likelihood that this area of disturbed weather will
hold together up our coastal areas. Rain chances have been increased
to about 40 percent as previous thinking that most of the rainfall
will not be measurable still holds. There is uncertainty regarding
the impressive line of showers now crossing western SC. At this time
blended guidance and CAMs show it weaken, turn north and miss our
western zones.

As the trough erodes by tonight the entire area will be in a healthy
warm sector, the strength of which indicated by nighttime lows that
are almost as warm as our climatological highs. In this warm sector
tomorrow, a sheared line of vorticity will try to introduce a line
of showers from the west but guidance isn`t too excited about
measurable precip and given how dry soundings remain this seems
plausible. With such a warm start any given location`s chance at
hitting 80 may hinge upon the extent of cloud cover.

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.SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
Huge change in air mass expected with a 20 degree drop in high
temps by Thurs. An arctic cold front will be making its way
through the eastern Carolinas with strong CAA through Wed night.
A fairly broad trough will extend down from deep mid to upper
low in the Great Lakes, helping to drive this strong cold front
through and provide plenty of dry and cold advection into the
Carolinas for Thanksgiving day through Saturday. The 850 temps
up near 13c late Wed will plummet down below 0 by Thurs aftn and
down to -7c by Fri. CAA will bring lows down into the 40s by
Thurs morning and will only return into the mid 50s for highs on
Thanksgiving Day. A reinforcing shot of cold air will come into
Thurs night with as the mid to upper trough axis clears the
coast. Expect lows near or below freezing Thurs night. High
temps on Fri may not even reach 50 degrees after a very cold
morning and continued CAA. With such a dry air mass, there will
be plenty of sunshine but also some gusty winds in the
afternoon.

The best CAA will come to an end into Fri night, but the center
of the high will draw near with better radiational cooling.
This will lead to another chilly night with widespread low temps
in the 20s. After another chilly start, temps will fight to get
to 50 under bright end of November sunshine.

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.LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
A slow modification of the air mass will take place over the
latter half of the weekend as high pressure shifts eastward
making it off the coast to the north of our area. This will lead
to an onshore flow developing at the sfc. The flow aloft will
shift to the SW to W. This onshore moister return flow will help
to begin a slow recovery of dewpoints from the teen on previous
couple of days into the 40s and 50s by late Sun into Mon. Pcp
water values will be back up to an inch by Sun aftn, from less
than a quarter of inch previous days. A more typical pattern
will develop Sun into Mon with high pressure wedge inland and
coastal trough developing along the coast. This should lead to
increasing clouds and chance of pcp through early next week.
Temps will be affected by clouds and pcp but overall expect a
return into the 60s Sun through Tues.

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.AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/...
Coastal trough in the process of moving ashore with wind swinging
around to S/SE and temps climbing. An area of disturbed weather
along the boundary moving up the SC coast is now progged to have a
better chance of moving up the SC/NC coasts this afternoon and
evening, though actual flight category reductions probably no worse
than MVFR. A line of dissipating showers also expected to affect
western counties and so possibly LBT and FLO late tonight into
tomorrow morning but they too may be hard=pressed to lead to
anything lower than MVFR vsby, and some fleeting IFR cigs appear
possible before they mix to higher levels later in the morning as
skies clear from west to east late in the period. A strong cold
front will be approaching from the west late in the period but its
passage doesn`t come until afterwards, some time Wednesday night.


Extended Forecast...Brief MVFR possible late Tuesday night and
Wednesday. VFR returns late Wednesday and continues through
Sunday.

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.MARINE...
Through Wednesday...The area will be in a strong warm sector
through the period, the parent low all the way up into the Great
Lakes. The remainder of today into tonight will be breezy, but
then tomorrow the approach of the front squeezes the gradient.
Advisory- worthy 25-30kt gusts should become frequent enough for
headlines (already hoisted last night) for NC waters.



Wednesday night through Saturday...Arctic air will make its way
over the waters behind a strong cold front Wed night into Thurs.
Gusty SW to W winds will shift around to the north into Thurs. A
secondary surge of cold air should kick winds up again late
Thurs into Fri. Overall, expect the best surge in winds and seas
leading up to the front with a downward trend into Thurs, but
possibly another bump up with secondary surge Thurs night.
Overall, winds and seas should remain sub-SCA, but may get
close for winds at times Wed night through Thurs night.

High pressure moves closer Fri night into Sat before shifting
off the NC/VA coast late Sat. An onshore return flow will
develop with winds coming around from the N to NE through Sat.

&&

.ILM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...None.
SC...None.
MARINE...Small Craft Advisory from 7 AM to 7 PM EST Wednesday for
     AMZ250-252.

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SYNOPSIS...ILM
NEAR TERM...MBB
SHORT TERM...RGZ
LONG TERM...RGZ
AVIATION...MBB
MARINE...MBB/RGZ