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Most of the steady rain will be confined to the southern coastline on Saturday and Sunday. Highs each afternoon bounce back into the low 80s.

Storms turn more isolated this weekend ahead of a potential tropical system

<p>Meteorologist Chris Michael in the Wral Severe Weather Center. Main story here over the next few days is going to be this new area of low pressure not related to Francine. It's got a 50% chance of becoming tropical rain likely for us Monday and Tuesday. Some of that could be heavy along with some gusty wind as well. Let's go into some of the latest data here and you'll notice that by late Monday and Tuesday morning, that's when we expect some of the heaviest rain and the gustiest wind. Keep in mind that a shift in the track of this low pressure could alter what you see ultimately. But generally speaking, looking at 1 to 3 inches of rain and the possibility for some strong wind gusts for the Tuesday morning commute. It does look as though we head into Wednesday morning and this area of low pressure will start to pull away. Still breezy though. All right, let's look ahead at the upcoming week and there you see again, a late Monday and off and on into Tuesday, heavy rain, a localized flooding gusty wind, the tornado threat looks to be lower than Debbie just because it looks like the center of low pressure is going to be just to our east Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Still the daily chance of showers and thunderstorms. As far as the weekend is concerned today, most of the rain is at the coast. By tomorrow afternoon, we'll track some isolated showers and rumbles of thunder, futurecast. Showing that anything we see again, very isolated today, moving in from east to west, we'll actually see some breaks of sun this afternoon. Good news for some college football that's going on at Durham Buls are home for their final home stand this weekend overnight, the clouds will increase and then by Sunday it looks like it's going to be a mostly cloudy day. And there you see isolated showers, rumbles of thunder coming in from east to west. Most of those look like they'll be near to the south of the triangle. Highs this weekend, 81 to 83 Bookmark Monday and Tuesday is the days to be looking out for. We'll be keeping you updated on all platforms highs in the seventies as that tropical moisture moves in. Beyond that we're warmer. Wednesday through Friday. Highs, 82 to 84.</p>

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