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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