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More showers and storms develop Tuesday, leading to the chance for localized flooding. A flood advisory is in place for Wake, Johnston, Sampson, Person and Wayne counties.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: Showers, storms lead to risk of localized flooding throughout the week

Good afternoon everyone. I'm WRO meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Tuesday afternoon. We've seen quite a bit of shower and thunderstorm activity again this afternoon, but not the widespread flooding flood advisories and flash flood warnings that we saw yesterday afternoon. Now we're under a low end risk for flooding through the early evening hours. We have a WRAO weather alert day as well, but the model, as it showed yesterday showed the peak of the rain coming this morning, mid-morning through mid-afternoon, and then General decrease in rain as we head to the evening commute, and this latest run shows exactly that. 3 o'clock this afternoon we see the showers and storms. By the time we get to 6 o'clock, you can see a really decent decrease in coverage. So during the evening commute, the rain should taper off by 9 o'clock, looking dry. We see more rain off to the west in the mountains in the foothills and over toward the Triad by midnight. That scoots to the east, and some of the energy moving in could create more showers by 5. 6 a.m. we see more rain toward the triad that by the time it gets here by 8 a.m. could develop more showers and perhaps some storms. This particular model doesn't go out far enough to show that, but others do. We're considering issuing a WRO weather alert date for the day tomorrow because we have the potential for more scattered showers and storms, and some of the rain could be heavy. About a high of 85 tomorrow and again we're under a low end risk for flooding. We're also under a low end risk for flooding for Thursday and Friday as well. So pretty much for overnight, mostly cloudy, can't rule out a shower, lows in the low to mid 70s. There might even be some patchy fog and more scattered storms tomorrow. Some of the rain could be heavy. We have a low end risk for flooding. High temperatures will remain in the 80s. In fact, we stay in the 80s for tomorrow. We stay in the 80s for Thursday. We push that 90 farther out into the future, 91 for the forecast high on Friday, 90 Saturday 92 on Sunday, low 90s Monday and Tuesday. That's our forecast update. Have a great afternoon. I'll see you later this evening.

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