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Be prepared for scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the day, especially in the western part of the area during the evening commute.

Possible damaging wind gusts and heavy rain: Level 1 risk for severe storms Thursday âï¸

Hi, everyone. Meteorologist Anthony Baglione here in the Wral Severe Weather Center. Let's talk about what we are looking at here as we head through the rest of today because we do technically have a severe storm risk outlined for the entire viewing area that comes out from the storm prediction center. They're based out in Norman Oklahoma. It looks like a very low potential at this point. We do not have a lot of kind of forcing up into the atmosphere to get storms to go. I do think though, as I'll show you futurecast that we could see at least the potential for a couple coming through. We head into the next couple of hours. The early part of the afternoon things are looking fine. We could maybe see a stray shower as early as about two o'clock, but I just don't think we're gonna see much. There is six o'clock on futurecast for our northern counties. Some isolated showers and storms are possible. And as we get closer to the evening after about 7 to 8 o'clock or so, the coverage may go up just a little bit for all of us. Just some scattered storms possible. We get later on tonight and then they should start to push on out. It's due to a cold front back to our west. So today we're still gonna be feeling tropical, but that cold front is gonna bring in a changing air mass here for the next couple of days. It should feel a whole lot better Friday, Saturday, even into Sunday and Monday looking, ok, but especially Friday and Saturday, if you can get outside, fire up the grill, go to the pool. It's gonna be a phenomenal couple days to do that today. We're still hot. 91 our normal is 85. We go to 88 tomorrow, 87 on Saturday, 92 there as we head into our Sunday, here's how the next seven days shape up 91 today and we keep the chance for a few showers and storms to get a pretty low, severe threat for us. If we see any get going, it would be just some gusty winds popping up 88 tomorrow. Sunshine 87 on Saturday, 92 on Sunday. The weekend looks great. Maybe a stray shower there on Sunday and a Sunday night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, all look dry at this point heading into next week. So on the whole here, if you need to get things done outside for the majority of us, we're looking pretty good again. Just watch for that potential of a stray storm into this evening.

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