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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.


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Hey there, our meteorologist, Brian Schrader in the WRL severe weather center. We've got an active couple of days ahead of us. So let's start with our Futurecast model. The good news is if you have afternoon outdoor plans, you're gonna be fine today. I think there's a slight chance you could see an isolated shower or storm late this afternoon or evening, but we're going to be mostly sunny through the day. It is going to be hot with a high temperature right around 90 degrees. But take a look at what Futurecast has in the foothills around nine o'clock tonight. You see that line of thunderstorms moving to the east and it looks like it crosses our area between maybe 10 p.m. and two AMI don't want to get too specific about that time frame just yet. But the idea here is that it's going to be in the late evening to early morning hours. We could have a line of showers and storms moving through and one or two of those could become severe. We are under a marginal risk for severe weather today. That means an isolated damaging wind gust from one of those storms as it comes through, you notice off to the west in the mountains and in part the foothills, we do have a level two risk of severe weather where they're anticipating a bigger risk of damaging winds, hail and maybe even a tornado with these storms as they pass through earlier in the day. But by the time they get here, I think they're going to weaken at least a little bit. This is something that Anthony Baglione is going to be watching through the evening in the WRL severe weather center. And then for Monday, we still have the wro weather alert day in place. Overnight, the storm prediction center did trim that level two risk to include only our northern counties. But the rest of us are in a level one risk for severe weather. Tomorrow, damaging winds would be the big threat along with some large hail and there is a low end tornado risk in our northern counties. It looks like mid morning tomorrow and then late afternoon and evening, tomorrow would be the two time frames where we're most concerned about severe weather. Once that front passes, we're looking good for the rest of the week with a little bit of a cool down and much more comfortable air moving in with lower humidity.

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