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Saturday carries a Level 1 risk for isolated severe thunderstorms, mainly from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wind is the main threat.

Level 1 risk for storms, strong winds on Saturday afternoon, evening

I'm meteorologist, Chris Michaels in the Wral Severe weather center. Our stormy pattern continues here for the next several days, working out the timing and location for you right here right now. It looks like a few stray storms will be possible early in the day. But we're talking very isolated activity. The bulk of scattered storms would come in out of the west after three or 4 p.m. These would start mostly north of the triangle, one or two of these could be on the strong side. There's a level one risk for severe weather across most of the state today, tracking a front that's going to keep the bulk of storminess north of the triangle through the early part of the day. That's 1 p.m. And what radar may look like also may be some storms just to our west after three or 4 p.m. You see those scattered storms moving west to east, localized wind damage can't be ruled out with some of those stronger cells. I do think the severe weather threat, what's left of it is going to be very limited heading beyond sunset. There's midnight, still a few stray showers and storms. But as we head into Sunday, things start out dry once again, our front to the north kind of a repeat performance where we see more scattered activity late in the day and into the evening. Today, 87 the high temperature in the triangle tomorrow 89 this pattern shows no signs of slow down, high pressure to the west. High pressure to the east kind of blocking and locking our pattern in. So we'll see that daily chance for scattered showers and storms. I don't think you see all day rains, but where it rains, it pours as you see that we're kind of pulling that moisture in, out of the tropics, but at least a break from the intense heat. Let's talk about that flood threat the past two days, it was that level yellow that you see there, that level two today, it's gonna be at a level one. So over the course of the next few days, really, our threat for flooding is going to be very localized, high temperatures as we head into the week, 89 to 90 degrees storms look to be very hit or miss Monday and Tuesday perhaps turning a little more numerous for us though, heading into Wednesday and Thursday with a front close by.

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