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Friday is now a WRAL Weather Alert Day, with an upgraded risk for severe storms in our southern counties.


ð¨WRAL Weather Alert Dayð¨ Level 2 risk for severe storms Friday afternoon, damaging winds & isolated tornadoes possible

<p>I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell. Today is a WRL weather alert day and we have new information. The risk for severe storms has been expanded to the northwest. It now includes Raleigh and the level two threat for severe storms. The higher risk was also expanded a bit north including southern Pines at Goldsboro, Fayetteville and Clinton. Still under that level two storm threat, damaging wind gusts and hail. The primary concerns though an isolated tornado can't be ruled out. We begin to see a few storms popping up as we get toward 23 o'clock and then those storms become more numerous, especially along in east of I 95 as we get toward the evening commute, but we could see a second line of some storms try to congeal together and that's the one that would move through the triangle a bit closer to dinner time tonight though, the threat looks like it ends closer to eight o'clock overnight. Skies clear. We'll be on the lookout perhaps for the northern lights between about two and five AM. Saturday morning, check in on WRL news starting at four for an update on that. We're watching this front. It's along this front that we have the focus for most of the severe concern and that's why the higher concern is in our southern counties. But behind the front, we've got a big drop in humidity and even temperatures on the way for the weekend, it's going to be feeling refreshing outside for Mother's Day weekend. 74 the high on Saturday, a 20% chance of rain. Saturday night and Sunday 79 with mostly sunny skies for mom. Let's take an hour by hour. Look at Mother's Day on Sunday by two o'clock. We're up to 76 degrees dinner time. Temperatures in the mid seventies waking up to temperatures in the mid fifties around 6 a.m. Future cash shows a quiet start to the day. Saturday. It's as we get toward the late evening that we could begin to see just a few isolated showers passing by in our northern counties. Those clear out for Sunday, the sun is back out and shining bright for Mother's Day. A nice gorgeous day. 79. It'll be feeling great outside on Sunday, your seven day forecast. No more eighties and, or I should say no more nineties in sight. We've got seventies and eighties across the board. A couple of nights in the fifties coming up here and then as we look ahead to next week, a stormy pattern looks like it's on the way for the middle of next week, especially Tuesday and Wednesday.</p>

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