Warm Friday in North Carolina, with isolated severe storms risk

EMPOWERMENT. WE’LL BE CANDID ABOUT THE WEATHER HERE. RECENTLY, IT’S BEEN HOT LATELY. TIME TO JUMP INTO THE BLUE LAGOON. ABSOLUTELY. THAT’S A GOOD ONE. GREAT INTERVIEW, BY THE WAY. LOVE TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HER. SO DOWN TO EARTH, IT WAS REALLY, REALLY NEAT. AND OF COURSE, ENJOYED HAVING HER DAUGHTER HERE WITH HER INTERNSHIP HERE IN MOUNT AIRY. YOU CAN SEE TODAY HAD SUNSHINE AND THEN SOME CLOUDS ROLLING IN. AND YEAH, DIDN’T HAVE AS MUCH rain AS YESTERDAY IN PLACES LIKE MOUNT AIRY. BUT WE DO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOT ONLY RAIN, MAINLY LATE DAY TOMORROW, BUT THE CHANCE FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. AGAIN ON SATURDAY. POSSIBILITY OF strong TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND THEN SOME LINGERING SHOWERS ON SUNDAY. I DO THINK IT WILL BE COOLER BY THEN WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 70S. ON OUR RADAR RIGHT NOW IT’S NICE AND QUIET. WE DON’T HAVE ANY REAL RAIN COMING DOWN. WE MAY GET A SHOWER BETWEEN NOW AND TOMORROW MORNING, AND YOU’RE NOTICING SOME WET WEATHER IN THE MOUNTAINS FROM EARLIER TODAY. AND THEN YESTERDAY’S RAIN FALLS, SOME 1 TO 2IN IN SPOTS, AND WE’RE WRAPPED UP THE MONTH OF APRIL. WE WERE BELOW NORMAL AS FAR AS RAINFALL GOES BY. ALL JUST OVER THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND JUST SHY OF THREE INCHES FOR THE MONTH. AND IF YOU LOOK OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, ONLY ONE OF THOSE MONTHS WHERE WE ABOVE NORMAL. THAT WAS FEBRUARY. SO THAT DEFICIT, OF COURSE, PLAYING INTO THIS MAP WHERE LAST WEEK WE HAD MODERATE DROUGHT OVER OUR FOOTHILL COMMUNITIES. NOW THAT MODERATE DROUGHT CREEPING NORTHWARD INTO FORSYTH, GUILFORD, ALAMANCE AS WELL AS RANDOLPH AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. SO WE DO NEED SOME RAIN AND WE HAVE INCREASED OUR RAIN CHANCES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. SO DOES LOOK LIKE WE WILL SEE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AROUND AND THEY’LL EVEN LINGER, I THINK, INTO SUNDAY, MAYBE EVEN INTO MONDAY. BIG DROP IN TEMPERATURES THOUGH. BY SUNDAY. MONDAY WITH HIGHS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO NORMAL IN THE LOW TO MID 70S. TODAY WE HAD A HIGH OF 83 AFTER A MORNING LOW OF 64, AND WE’RE STILL PRETTY WARM, SO WE’VE GOT 71 IN GREENSBORO REIDSVILLE, 68 IN MARTINSVILLE AND 61 RIGHT NOW IN GALAX WITH STILL SOME UPPER 70S LIKE RALEIGH AT 77 DEGREES RIGHT NOW. A LOT OF CLOUD COVER OUT THERE. THERE’S A FEW SHOWERS SOUTH AND WEST. CAN’T RULE OUT A RUMBLE OF THUNDER OVERNIGHT. NOT CONCERNED ABOUT SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT, BUT BY TOMORROW, SOME OF WHAT IS OUT TO THE WEST WILL BE MOVING EAST. SO YOU CAN SEE THERE’S STILL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH BOX THAT’S OUT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS. AND THEY HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF WARNINGS OUT THERE AS WELL. HASN’T BEEN WIDESPREAD. THAT SLIGHT RISK AREA SLIDES NORTHWARD INTO NASHVILLE. ALSO NORTHERN PARTS OF ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI THAT MARGINAL RISK ZONE DOES MOVE INTO OUR AREA. SO IT’S NOT JUST FOR TOMORROW, BUT FOR MUCH OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA INTO THE DAY ON SATURDAY AS WELL. SO HERE’S A FORECAST. IT’S A LOT LIKE TODAY FOR TOMORROW HIGH OF 83 A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AND TOWARD EVENING. WE’LL STILL HAVE THOSE BREEZES OUT OF THE SOUTH AT ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THEY’RE ACTUALLY KIND OF HELPFUL. THEY TAKE THE DEW POINT DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT IN THE AFTERNOON, SO THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE. 82 FOR A HIGH IN THE FOOTHILLS. ALSO WITH SOME LATE DAY SHOWERS AND STORMS. AND IN THE MOUNTAINS HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID 70S. ALSO LOOKING AT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LATE DAY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. SO ANYTHING THAT IS IN THIS WARM SECTOR HERE, WARM FRONT TO THE NORTH, COLD FRONT TO THE WEST, THIS IS PRETTY UNSTABLE. NOT GOING TO TAKE A WHOLE LOT TO TRIGGER A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM. WE KIND OF STAY IN THAT ZONE THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY. THERE’S A SECOND FRONT THAT’S DROPPING IN OUT OF CANADA, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE LOW KIND OF GETS HUNG UP NOT JUST AT THE SURFACE, BUT UPSTAIRS HERE, WHAT WE CALL KIND OF A CUTOFF LOW. THAT SORT OF SHUTS ITSELF OFF SLOWLY MOVES. SO AS LONG AS THAT IS OVERHEAD AND NEARBY, WE HAVE TO ENTERTAIN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT FRONT TO STAY NEARBY. AND THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO KIND OF LINGER. SO THAT’S WHY WE’VE EXPANDED THAT RAIN INTO SUNDAY. WE EVEN HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR UNSETTLED SKIES INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. ONE THING WE DO THINK IS THAT EVEN WITH THAT UPPER LOW, THE TEMPERATURES WILL DROP WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S. ON THAT SEVEN DAY.