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Highs reach the lower 90s Saturday ahead of scattered storms. Cooler, less humid air arrives by Monday morning.

Cold front to bring scattered storms Saturday, back to the fall feel starting Sunday 

Meteorologist Grant Skinner here in the weather center, scattered showers and storms are possible through tonight. The majority of them west of I-95, level 1 of 5, severe risk in place, damaging wind gusts being the main threat. That level 1 to 5 risk is for areas along and north and west of the triangle. A big temperature change by Sunday, once this cold front that brought the showers and storms moves to our south and east, highs drop into the mid to upper 70s for our Sunday, but we still have some lingering cloud cover. You'll see that on Futurecast, scattered showers and storm. Through 8 p.m. and continues through 10:45. You can see a good coverage of them, with a good bit of cloud cover as well. Rain ts become more isolated into the early morning hours on Sunday, but some brief showers still can't be ruled out throughout the day on Sunday, with more isolated showers and at least some brief storms by the afternoon on Sunday. This is 34 o'clock, you can see um the majority of them towards the coastline, but still some possible down towards Samson, Cumberland Counties, and back towards Wayne County as well in Goldsboro. And then they'll move to the south and east into the rest of the evening on Sunday, with some lingering cloud cover, more sunshine by Monday. So our our our rain chances tonight, isolated showers and storms are possible for areas of the south and east, but a good coverage of them to the north and west, with isolated severe risk as well, a 50% rain chance from 9 p.m. through midnight tonight, then a 20% rain chance through much of the day, with just some brief showers possible, but that better chance for isolated showers and brief storms will be to the south and east, and into the afternoon and evening on Sunday. So, level 105 risk is in place for areas along the triangle and points to the north and west. That threat is for damaging wind gusts through tonight. So, forecast lows overnight, mid to upper 60s for the triangle and points to the north, down towards the sand hills, a little bit warmer in the low 70s, trend for tomorrow, as that cold front passes, though, much cooler air. 70s for most spots, some low 80s mixed in towards the sand hills, but things will continue to cool off as we head into next week as that cold front shifts offshore, temperatures in the mid to upper 70s for most days through Wednesday, and then Thursday, Friday in the low 80s, so trending below average through next week. Overnight lows staying in the upper 50s and low 60s, so much cooler and mostly dry.

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