First Alert Day

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — First Alert Day-Today: Thunderstorms will develop through evening across Central NC. There is a Level 1 severe risk for most of the ABC11 viewing area. The main concerns will be damaging wind gusts and hail. A few quick downpours will also be possible.

Any existing thunderstorms in the viewing area this evening will diminish after sunset and should be gone by midnight. Skies partially clear tonight and this allows some radiation fog to form later, mainly to the south and east of the Triangle. Any fog that does form will dissipate quickly tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow will be fairly similar to today, with afternoon heating and a little instability aloft likely to generate a few scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The dynamics tomorrow will be a little less than this afternoon, so any storms that form are likely to be run-of-the-mill, none-severe storms.

Sunday still looks to be the driest day of this weekend as brief ridging moves in, and we see more sunshine with temperatures reaching the low 90s. However, the dry weather won’t last long as our next, more potent trough moves across the Great Lakes on Monday.

This trough will usher a cold front into the region on Monday, raising the likelihood of thunderstorms for Memorial Day. More widespread activity will be farther to the north, closer to the low. However, any thunderstorm in our viewing area could bring damaging winds, hail, and flooding downpours. The best chance continues to be in the afternoon.

Tuesday into Thursday will be much cooler with highs in upper 70s and low 80s and overnight lows in the cool, middle and upper 50s. There will be a fair amount of sunshine each day. A storm developing to the south and east this period may send some clouds our way, but any showers remain off to the south and east.

Have a great evening!!

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