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More showers are possible on Thursday, but a break from the exceptionally wet pattern could be on the horizon heading into the weekend. 

More showers possible Thursday adding to the exceptionally wet pattern, drier weekend ahead

<p>I'm WAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. Another wet day out there for many of us. We have not had an entire week of dry weather now since April in Raleigh. It's been an exceptionally wet summer, and tonight, especially after about 10 p.m., we could have another round of showers, even some storms move in. Lows are in the low to mid 70s again tonight and waking up tomorrow morning, the way it looks now, we're likely to be dry around the. But our southern counties could wake up to some rain early on and then late morning through the early afternoon, similar to what we've seen the past couple of days, we're likely to see a decent band of showers and storms arrive in our area. The main threat would be localized flooding once again for the day Thursday and then as we get later into the evening, we expect this activity to gradually dwindle. Then by the weekend, finally a drier forecast. Returning. Here's the flood risk for tomorrow is updated still low for most of us, but parts of Nash County, Edgecombe County over toward Halifax and North Hampton counties are under a medium flood risk for the day tomorrow because we don't expect the bulk of the rain to be during the morning or evening commute the way it looks now. That's why we're holding off on another WRAL weather alert day. We'll let you know if that changes tonight at 10 on Fox 15 and 11 on WRAL.</p>

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