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The threat for steady rain and a low-end risk for flooding has prompted a WRAL Weather Alert Day Thursday.



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<p>Welcome back. I'm meteorologist Amy Wmoutth live in the WRL Severe Weather Center. You're looking live at our RDU camera. The rain coming down. The tarmac is wet. Make sure you look ahead before you head to the airport. We might have some delays today because of all the rain, widespread rain and storms expected for the evening commute. We do have the weather alert day that will continue through the evening, and the storm tracker will be out and about monitoring area roads during our evening newscasts. Uh, we do have one flood advisory in effect for Lee County, and that goes until 5:15. They've seen a lot of rain in the last 6 hours, up to 3 inches per rain. Our estimates and Southern Cumberland County a pretty hefty storm there with a lot of lightning and very heavy rain, and this is headed into Sampson County as well. Clinton, you just had a band of rain move through your area in and around the triangle area Chapel Hill, Durham, you're getting some light rain. Wake County pretty much covered in rain, uh, the heaviest rain over the western half of the county and our northern counties, we have some light rain, not a big deal. The heavy rain to the south is headed your way, so expect scattered showers and storms through the evening commute. This is 5 p.m. We'll have some showers and storms out there. It'll be fairly unsettled through the evening and we'll start to see the activity taper off later on tonight. This is 11 o'clock tonight. Overnight tonight we could see a little bit of patchy fog. It's pretty quiet overnight tonight and into the first half of Friday. Really most of Friday is dry, but late in the day. In the evening we could see a stray shower or storm. Overall rain chances are pretty low, but we could see a stray shower storm late Friday. And then overnight Friday into Saturday we have the chance for storms. Saturday morning it's mainly cloudy to kick off the day. So if you have some outdoor things, maybe do those the first half of the day. Then we'll have some scattered showers and storms in the afternoon and evening. This is a new model run. It's not as excited about the rain, which is good for outdoor plans, but. We'll keep you posted as we get closer. It does look like we have at least a chance for scattered storms each day over the weekend. The severest today is west of us and north of us. We're just in the general thunderstorm risk, but the biggest threat today would be localized flooding, which we're starting to see in Sanford and Lee County. For Friday we have a level one risk in our western counties. Most of the day is dry. Most of you stay dry until tomorrow night. And then Saturday we have a level 1 risk for severe storms, a level 2 risk closer to Charlotte. I wouldn't be surprised if we have a level 2 risk for at least part of our area for Sunday. So we're considering weather alert days for Saturday and Sunday just because it's going to be active both days with afternoon and evening storms. It'll also be hot Saturday, 92 for the high, 89 on Sunday, and still storms in the forecast Monday through Thursday of next week.</p>

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