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Saturday will be a pleasant day, with temperatures in the mid-80s by late afternoon and less humidity than we've seen lately.

Skies clear for pleasant summer Saturday

Happy Saturday. I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels in the Wral Severe weather center. Severe clear is the theme of our weather here as we go throughout the weekend, humidity levels gradually dropping off. That's especially going to be the case as we head into Sunday. The breeze coming in out of the north and northwest is helping to bring in that drier air, but it's also bringing in some smoke. This is coming in from the wildfires, uh especially the ones in California, but a lot of these in the Western US. So these uh smoke plumes get drifted into the upper levels of the atmosphere. The wind carries it over and creates a hazy sky. It also may make for a kind of an eerie looking sunset. This evening, air quality issues were probably not going to have anything major. So that's some good news on this Saturday. Aside from that we're warm, not as humid sunshine and a partly cloudy sky. Most of us peaking between 85 and 87 degrees. Fayetteville, the warm spot at 88 degrees perfect evening to do really whatever you want. Bulls game is happening this evening. Great night at the ball park first pitch temperature at 82 degrees as we get closer to the seventh inning stretch, temperatures upper seventies and the humidity continues to come down a little bit that allows overnight lows to come down a little bit as well. First thing Sunday morning feeling great lows about 62 to 66 bottle that up. Things are going to start to change as we head into the early portion of the week and the wind starts to shift out of the south and the southwest Monday still not horrible. But by Tuesday and Wednesday, that's when our moist levels are really going to start to climb ahead of this frontal system. What that's gonna do is it's gonna allow our rain chances to come up, especially as we head into Wednesday. That's when I think our overall amount of showers and storms will climb. I'll have to watch for the potential for localized flooding, especially with how wet things have been. All the more reason to enjoy this weekend. Highs 87 to 89 high temperatures Monday through Wednesday, 87 to 89. But then by Thursday and Friday, the heat is back highs about 93 to 95 degrees.

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