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A WRAL Weather Alert Day has been issued for Sunday due to severe storms expected in the afternoon and evening.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: Level 2 risk for severe storms in Triangle

Meteorologist, Amy Wilmouth in the WRL severe weather center. We have a weather alert day today, a level two risk from Wake County and points to the north. We have a level one risk for severe storms in our southern counties. The biggest threat today will be damaging wind gusts and the potential for some pockets of heavy rain as well. So we'll have some scattered showers and thunderstorms develop this afternoon and they will continue into the evening hours. We will keep the weather center staffed all day today and alert you if we get any warnings 10 p.m. we'll still have some scattered showers and then after midnight, another round of storms will likely move in. So don't be surprised if you hear some thunder while you're sleeping tonight, the cold front itself doesn't move through until the overnight hours into early Monday morning. Monday morning at 5 a.m. We'll have some scattered storms, especially in our southern counties and that will continue until around 7 a.m. or so. And then we'll have clearing skies, drier, air works in and it should turn out to be a very nice afternoon. We could see anywhere from around a quarter of an inch to an inch to an inch and a half. The higher rain totals look to be in the southeastern part of the viewing area. Another big part of the weather story today, a heat advisory in effect for most of the area until 8 p.m. The heat index could get as high as 109 or 110 today. So some dangerous heat as we wrap up the weekend, the good news, the cold front that's bringing us the storms later on today. And overnight tonight, it does bring some relief from the heat, although it will be brief, but we do get at least a little bit of a break. Monday and Tuesday, high temperatures will stay in the eighties by Wednesday. The heat already back 91 the high, the heat index 94 and then the fourth of July is Thursday. We have a high of 99 a heat index of 106. So a heat advisory likely going into effect for the fourth of July holiday. Some dangerous heat for the holiday. Today, we have a weather alert day for the potential for severe storms. That would be this afternoon this evening. And even overnight tonight, we'll have some storms, a stray shower storm early Monday and then the rest of the day should be dry with a high of 8487 Tuesday. And then back into the low nineties Wednesday near 100 for the fourth of July, we could hit 100 again on Friday with a few storms and we'll have some scattered storms Saturday with highs in the upper nineties.

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