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Our southeastern counties face a chance of strong storms developing Friday afternoon due to a cold front.



Scattered storms possible Friday, Level 1 severe risk for Southern NC counties

<p>I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell and the wr a severe weather center, we do have the potential for some additional scattered storms on Friday. There is a level one threat for severe storms. So this is a low threat, but there could be some hail, perhaps some damaging wind gusts. And the primary threat looks to be south and east of Raleigh at this point though Raleigh and really anywhere could see the storms. The timing. I'm thinking between about 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. should be a quiet start to, it's around lunchtime that we begin to see our first storms of the day fire up probably in our southern counties. And then a little bit later in the afternoon, we could see some storms pop up pretty much anywhere. There's a chance that they try to come together as a line in eastern North Carolina toward the coastal plain and the coast. So we'll watch for that potential as well. 81 for the high tomorrow Saturday, some clouds as you're waking up possibly. But we see clearing partly cloudy skies for the afternoon and then we've got this weak disturbance approaching from the northwest. The air is going to dry out significantly over the weekend though. So it's not going to feel this humid, but that should help to limit just how much rain we could see. Saturday evening, I'm only going with about a 20% chance for rain as that swings through. Then for Mother's Day weekend, it is less humid. It's comfortable. It ends up being a beautiful weekend for mom 74 Saturday, 79 on Sunday, Sunday for take an hour by hour. Look 6 a.m. It's in the mid fifties by lunchtime, 70 warming up to 79 for the high and mid seventies at dinner time. It's Mother's Day weekend, meaning we've got a lot of college graduations happening. UN C graduation 7 p.m. 68 degrees. And for the 10 a.m. graduation at Shaw, it should be around 62. We also have MEREDITH College 8, 30 graduation, 55 and for the 11 a.m. 65 Duke graduating on Sunday should be beautiful. 59 at 9 a.m. with more sunshine. Over the next seven days, we've got some ups and downs temperature wise, but no more nine. So we get a break from the big heat. Saturday looking pretty nice. Just that 20% chance for rain. Saturday night, early next week, a quiet start. But as we get into the middle of next week, it's increasingly unsettled with rain and storm chances climbing up to 60% by Tuesday.</p>

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