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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.


WRAL Weather Alert Day on Memorial Day brings level 2 risk of severe storms

I hope you're having a good Saturday. I'm meteorologist, Brian Schrader here at the WRL Severe Weather Center. And as we take a look at your forecast through the rest of the afternoon, take a look at our Futurecast model. We're gonna see clearing skies partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies as we move on through the mid-afternoon hours. And then as we get into the late afternoon, we start to see a couple of showers popping up here on this model. There's no real focus for where these storms are gonna pop up. We're gonna call it a 30 to 40% chance seeing some isolated showers and storms late this afternoon on into the early evening hours, say from around three pm to about nine pm. That looks like the time frame right now and then overnight, we'll see that start to dissipate. So just want to keep that in mind later this afternoon and evening, do also want to point out that the storm prediction center has southern hope in southern Cumberland County in a level one risk for severe weather later this afternoon. That just means one or two of those uh, storms could become severe with damaging winds being the big threat. Tomorrow is looking drier. I think we're going to be mostly sunny through the day tomorrow with just a slight chance of an isolated shower late in the day. High temperatures tomorrow, generally around 90 degrees. All new we have issued a wro weather alert day for Monday overnight. The storm prediction center put most of our area including the Triangle and Fayetteville in a level two risk for severe thunderstorms. On Monday, the rest of the area is under a level one risk and it looks like damaging winds would be the biggest threat with these storms couldn't rule out some large hail and maybe even an isolated tornado. We're still getting a lot of data and about this system, we'll be able to fine tune that forecast over the next couple of days here. It looks like Monday afternoon into the evening would be the greatest risk for severe weather check in with Anthony Bag later tonight as he gets new data in about the Monday threats. We have that wio weather alert day in place. Once that front passes much cooler drier weather as we head into next week with the humidity level coming down, it's going to feel pretty comfortable.

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