Saturday evening...

Wow! Today was just one of those amazing days we get here in the Carolinas from time to time. There was not a cloud in the sky, dewpoints were down into the 30s and 40s, and highs were in the mid 70s. Just fantastic!

Conditions will be great all evening to spend some time outdoors, and it is hard to imagine any better weather for the All-Star festivities out at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Our next cold front drops in here tomorrow and looks to bring us some showers and storms tomorrow afternoon and ending early evening. At this point, I am anticipating a line of showers and storms to sweep through pretty quickly from northwest to southeast.

A few storms could be strong to locally severe. A big impediment to severe weather chances will be a lack of instability. It looks like dewpoints will only be able to recover into the low to mid 50s ahead of the front, so instability looks to be somewhat lacking. However, the wind fields aloft are fairly strong, so if any decent storms do get going, some strong winds will be possible.

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Thursday Evening....

We will see areas of rain through the night, and some embedded storms ill be possible as well. While the rain looks to be fairly widespread, it does not look overly heavy in most spots with total rain amounts less than a half of an inch. Lows tonight will be in the lower 60s.

A cold front will sweep through Friday, and that looks to end the chances for showers and storms pretty early in the day. Highs will likely wind up in the upper 70s.

How about this....we have a dry weekend forecast! Look for a mostly sunny sky Saturday with a partly cloudy forecast for Sunday. Highs both days will be in the mid to possibly upper 70s.

A warm front will lift through Tuesday and bring us the chance of a few showers or storms, and then it looks like a big warm-up is on tap for Wednesday and Thursday with highs into the upper 80s. In fact, if current trends hold, I would not be surprised if some spots hit 90 degrees next Wednesday or Thursday!

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Wednesday Afternoon...

Watching some showers try to creep in from the foothills. Can't rule out a few raindrops late this afternoon and this evening.

Still looking at the potential for showers and some storms to move in tomorrow as our next storm system begins to move in. That chance for showers and storms will linger through tomorrow night and into Friday.

While I can't rule out a strong or severe storm, the instability and dynamics just don't look to be in place for a big outbreak. But as always, we will watch it closely.

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Breezy Monday...

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted photos and information to us as the supercell moved through the region yesterday. We really appreciate it! I also want to thank everyone who watched our coverage yesterday afternoon and evening.....severe weather coverage is the most important part of our job, and I thank you for trusting us to deliver you that critical information.

It is our goal to always be on the air when severe weather is occurring, no matter the time of day or night, and I consider it a privilege to be able to bring you severe weather information.

Without a doubt, I have done more wall to wall severe weather coverage this week than I have any other week in my career so far. I am mentally tired and ready for a couple of off days, but the next time severe weather rolls around, no question I want to be there and on the air tracking storms with you.

As for today, it almost seems like an early fall morning...breezy and a bit cool. It will be quite breezy with some wind gusts over 30 or 35mph at times.

Here is some great video from Jeff Kimble of the rotating wall cloud in Concord.

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Wow...

We had a long-track supercell thunderstorm track across the viewing area that produced tremendous hail and a tornado. We have received bunches of viewer photos, and we appreciate every one of them. Above is a picture of the funnel cloud as it approached Stanly county. Also, we have just one of the namy examples of the incredible hail that occurred...up to baseball size in spots!

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New Tornado Watch

Here is the new Tornado Watch...officially out until 8pm.

While the biggest severe weather threat looks to be with that advancing line of showers and storms moving through the central Carolinas, I am watching a couple of showers and storms up in the mountains....we will keep an eye on those this afternoon.

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Tornado watch likely posted soon....

The SPC has mentioned that a tornado watch till likely soon be posted ahead of the advancing line of developing showers and storms over the Piedmont. It looks like the severe weather threat this afternoon will mainly be east of I-85 in the Charlotte region.

Looks like the little surface low is developing just west of Cleveland county as I type. The primary severe threat will be ahead of this low pressure as it scoots ENE across the state.

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Still lots of uncertainty regarding how much our airmass can destabilize. That will determine any severe weather threar for our region.

Off to church for now....will be in the office early this afternoon....

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Sunday morning...

First of all, good mood morning to you, and happy Mother's Day!

All eyes are on the severe weather potential around here today. A batch of rain is pushing through the southern Piedmont as I type this, and it looks like it should move through without any severe weather issues early today.

A warm front is located from north Georgia across central South Carolina this morning. That should begin lifting northward later this morning. While we are seeing clouds and rain to greet us this morning, it sure looks like we are going to wind up with a good deal of sun for a while later this morning and/or early afternoon. This will allow the atmosphere a chance to become unstable.

So, it looks like we will see additional showers and storms fire later in the day, and that is where the severe weather risk comes in to play.

With the overnight update, the SPC has the entir area in a 'slight' risk designation area, with the 'moderate' risk up to around the southeastern portions of the Charlotte viewing region. I note that the severe weather probabilities in the slight risk area are on the high end of the slight risk category.

So, stay tuned throughout the day. It still looks like some active weather could occur later in the day...it is not a definite, but it is certainly possible depending on how unstable our airmass becomes with time.

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