StormTracker8: Freeze Watch for Saturday morning as cooler air slides in

Richmond, Va. (WRIC) — Partly cloudy skies will be across Central Virginia tonight and it will be a chilly night with lows in the lower 40s.

Friday will feature partly sunny skies, and it will be windy and much cooler with highs only near 55.

A freeze watch is in effect for Saturday morning for all areas along and east of I-95 and this will affect the end of the growing season as temperatures drop back into the twenties to near 30 by early Saturday morning.

Saturday will be a cold start for the Richmond marathon with temperatures in the 30s at the start of the race and by the time that most are done with either the marathon or the half marathon we should be in the middle 40s around 10:00am.

By the afternoon we’ll climb into the lower 50s, and it will remain rather windy on Saturday.

Sunday will be another breezy but mostly sunny day with highs near 55…

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