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This Memorial Day weekend in North Carolina will be hot and humid with a chance for scattered afternoon storms each day.


Severe thunderstorms popping up in several counties Saturday night; WRAL Weather Alert day on Memorial Day

<p>Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here. Of course, on this Memorial Day weekend. I hope you've had a good start so far. Let's talk about kind of where we go because we have a lot here to focus on as far as the weather is concerned. We're gonna be at 90 on Sunday, 92 there for Memorial Day. So it is gonna be a hot couple of days. I don't see a change with that. What I've put on there though, you can see it says best chances that would be the best chances for some showers and storms coming through. We've bumped up rain chances a little bit on our Sunday. I'm gonna go through Futurecast because I still think we're gonna start off the day. Head into the early afternoon pretty calm and then Monday, we also have to watch for the chance of a few strong to severe storms closer to the evening. Here's futurecast though. Of course, we've started the weekend off with some scattered storms. We're gonna see those fizzle out once we get into tonight, early tomorrow morning, starting off our Sunday perfectly fine. If you're headed to church, if you are headed outside on the patio for a nice cup of coffee. Zero problems here with the weather. It may be muggy though to start. We're into the early afternoon there. There's three o'clock for you on Sunday. Still some pop up showers and thunderstorms, possible, more inconvenient than anything. But you notice what happens as we get closer to tomorrow evening, we're gonna watch and see kind of as we get through the rest of the forecast model, kind of what this shapes up to be. But I do think it is trending a little bit wetter tomorrow night after let's say eight o'clock or so, we could see some decent coverage with scattered showers and storms. So bear that in mind tomorrow evening, you may wanna just keep an eye on the sky and, and make sure to stay tuned to the forecast. We get into early Memorial Day into the morning. I think we are pretty good to go there. The first half of the day looks fine, just a maybe a stray shower for some of us there, but overall really not looking too bad. We bump futurecast ahead here around lunchtime. Still looking good early afternoon. We may not see a lot of rainfall with this system until the evening. There's eight o'clock and there's a potential line approaching from the west coming through that could have some strong storms with it for Sunday. The severe risk is back toward Indianapolis where they have the Indy 500 going on. So we're gonna have to watch that closely for the forecast and then into Memorial Day. But the evening time frame, we have a chance for some strong to severe storms. Here, here's how kind of it shapes up for you. 83 at 10 o'clock, Memorial Day, 87 at noon, we go to 90 at two o'clock and you notice those percentages are relative low, at least for the first half of the day. And it may start to go up into the evening, 90 tomorrow, 92 on Monday. Again, as we get new model data, as we get a better focus kind of on what potentially could happen for Monday. We will bring that to you. But at this point, it looks like the chance is there for some strongness of your storms, not a guarantee. 84 by Wednesday, a beautiful forecast into most of next week.</p>

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