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The intense heat and humidity continues into the weekend, while storm chances are higher Saturday compared to Sunday.

WRAL Weather Alert Day: More intense heat with the possibility of some isolated storms Sunday

<p>Yeah, very hot out there and radar is active now. Isolated showers and storms mainly in northern portions of our area. You can see they've become more scattered along areas right up 85 down through, uh, portions of the Triangle down through Durham, and more storms back to the east as well over portions of Halifax and Northampton counties. We're gonna zoom in on these storms across the area. You can see there's just to the southwest of Durham about to move into Durham got some heavy. Downpours there frequent lightning with some of these showers and storms and more rain over Chapel Hill as well. Additional showers back to the north of Pittsboro and just to the northeast of Siler City. So again, a few more showers over parts of Chatham County, but the southern half of the county remains dry just to the northeast of downtown Raleigh, there are some showers up towards North Raleigh just to the northeast of the loop. You can see there are a couple of lightning strikes in there. So you could hear some rumbles of thunder and a few more showers just to the north of Nightdale and working their way east. These are slow moving showers and storms as well, so we could see some localized flooding. A lot of lighting still with these storms over portions of Halifax County just south of Enfield into the southwest of Scotland neck and making their way to the east, and these have been uh back building as well. So we're seeing additional showers and storms popping up just behind. Ones that have already developed rain, so you can see some spots have already seen half an inch to 1 inch of rain just to the southwest of Durham, closer to Chatham County, and even more rain over portions of Halifax, Edgecombe County, and also up towards, uh, Northampton County as well. So watch for that localized flooding throughout the rest of this evening, some darker skies over Raleigh, another heat advisory in place for tomorrow. We'll talk more about that heat coming up in a bit.</p>

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