Showers and storms...

Some showers and storms fired up through the Piedmont this afternoon and evening on the pre-frontal trough ahead of an advancing cold front. Some storms have been strong, with some small hail and gusty winds, but as of this typing, no severe weather.

As that front continues to approach, we will have the chance of some showers and storms through the night and into at least Monday morning. Drier air will try to work in by the afternoon hours, ending the rain chances in the Charlotte and Triad regions in time.

The weather will be warm and dry through mid-week before more potential rain arrives for Friday and the weekend. The Euro model as well as some runs of the GFS try to pull some type of tropical moisture into the Carolinas during that period....so we will see.

Bertha is scraping just east of Bermuda and will head out to sea this week. A tropical wave in the southern Atlantic bears watching for development this week. In fact, a good chuck of computer modeling does indeed develop that wave into a tropical system.