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After a wet start to the weekend and a dip into slightly cooler temps, prepare for a triple-digit heat index to return on Saturday and get even higher on Sunday.

Weekend brings muggy heat, potential for storms -- but relief is on the horizon

<p>Happy Saturday. I'm meteorologist Chris Michaels in the Wral Severe Weather center. For the most part, it was nice to see some rain. Yesterday, it did get a little nasty with some flooding at times, but thankfully past the worst part of that, look at some of these rain totals impressive, especially in Fuqua. Uh close to four inches of rain being measured by some of the sensors there. Rocky Mountain, Irwin, more than three inches of rain than Goldsboro, Fort Liberty and Chapel Hill an inch and a half to two inches and 2.5 inches of rain. Future c showing that front hanging out over the area and it's going to wring out the moisture like a wet towel once again. But this time, it's not going to be quite as widespread as what we maybe saw out there yesterday. Most of our storm chance is going to be near to the east of interstate 95 late this morning off and on into the afternoon as we go beyond sunset, you'll lose the heat of the day. For the most part, you lose the conditions that are conducive for showers and thunderstorms that front. Then moving off toward the east by Sunday. So for today, still hot and humid, a high temperature near 90 degrees. And by tomorrow, you're looking at a high of about 96 the heat index near 105. Now, we got to start talking about the heat risk again heading into early this week. Another heat wave by Monday near record high temperature of 99 Tuesday could even be a little bit hotter than that factor in the humidity. The heat index near 110 start getting the water and electrolytes in your system. Now, especially if you're going to be working outside. Here's some good news. If you're not fan of the heat, you see low pressure coming down to the south, bulk of the heat is going to move south with it. So the jet stream is kind of your dividing line between cool air north and hot air to the south. So the long range outlook, this is looking late in the week into next weekend, favors below average temperatures still looking at highs in the eighties will also be wetter than average heading into late this week and the upcoming weekend. Here's the latest check of the seven day forecast. The bulk of the heat through Tuesday backing off by Thursday and Friday.</p>

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