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Periods of rainy weather usher in brief cool down this weekend. Spring weather returns next week

Near normal highs are forecast for Tuesday with upper 40s and low 50s in the Triad and Foothills. The Appalachian Mountains may receive 1"-2+" snowfall totals.

Heavy rain chances continue overnight with breaks before storms. A Flood Watch is up for the Foothills, Piedmont and Mountains in North Carolina and Virginia.

Periods of spotty rain early will be followed by heavy rain chances late Saturday. Isolated thunderstorms are possible. Flooding risk lasts into Sunday morning.

The slick road conditions and also drunk driving have been factors in car accidents over the last few days in the Bay Area, with some being fatal.

Heavy rain is possible on Sunday from a coastal low. Travel impacts in the Piedmont Triad include localized flooding and sporadic power outages.

YAKIMA, Wash.-A 26-year-old Yakima woman is dead after a single-car crash on Dec. 6.

Showers will gradually become a steady rain with an increasing chance for storms this afternoon and evening. Some storms could become intense with high winds.

A Texas police chief said Tuesday that wet roads and speed factored into the driver of an SUV plowing into a Denny's restaurant outside Houston on Labor Day, injuring nearly two dozen people inside. No charges against the driver have been filed but the crash remains under investigation, Rosenberg Police Chief Jonathan White said. Twenty people inside the restaurant were taken to hospitals, but authorities said none of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

If driving in the rain scares you, this is your guide to staying safe while Hurricane Hilary is drenching the roadways in Southern California.