The rain returns for Saturday! A quick moving area of low pressure will swing through the area, bringing showers. Rain will pick up through the morning hours, with pockets of moderate to locally heavy rain around midday.
The question mark for Saturday evening’s forecast is will we see a break in the rain late in the day. If so, we could have a risk for a few t-storms, including the risk of a strong to severe storm in the late afternoon and evening as the warm front lifts north. We’ll have a brief window of some instability for the storms (if any form) to tap into the wind energy aloft. Make sure you have our WAVY weather app to get push alert notifications to your phone.
Highs Saturday will be a little odd – we’ll start the day cool and damp and warm up soem in the late afternoon/evening as the warm front lifts north to around 60 degrees. Expect upper 50s to the north with a brief period of mid 60s across parts of NE NC as the warm front lifts north this evening. Temps will then fall later into the overnight and into Sunday morning.
Rainfall totals across the area look to be around half an inch of rain. Not a ton, but enough that there will likely be some ponding of water with the saturated ground recently.
The rain will depart the area Saturday night, with drier weather for Sunday in the forecast. Highs will be in the upper 50s Sunday, with a decent west breeze. At times, winds could gust to 30-35 with gusts to 40 on the Eastern Shore. Some stronger gusts are expected across the Eastern Shore Monday where I can’t rule out a 45 mph gust.
A drier stretch of weather develops as we head into the upcoming week, with highs warming into the mid to upper 60s my mid to late week. The next chance for rain is Friday.
Hope you can make the most of this rainy Saturday! Have a good one.
Meteorologist Ricky Matthews
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