Welcome back to Wake Up Charlote
Weekend on this Sunday.
I hope your day is off to an
amazing and peaceful start.
If not, hey, take a look at your screen,
a beautiful view from Lake Norm.
Hopefully that adds a little
piece to your day.
As Brittany said earlier,
we're bringing the sunrise,
but the possibility of
some rain is in your forecast.
Yeah, we have storms returning
later on this afternoon,
but at least we're trying to brg
some of that sunshine and our le
cameras are working this mornin,
but probably working
overtime to kind of you know.
Balance out the fact that we
have brainstorms this afternoon.
A Kannapolis camera live this morning part
of our Carolina camera network and Mr.
Sparky again looks great.
You can see some of those high level,
thin wispy clouds out there,
especially on the upper left
hand portion of your screen.
This indicative of a lot of low
level moisture across the area.
Getting ready for another Kannas
cannon bothers game back at hom.
First pitch of about 1:05 todayd
you can see things are staying e
and dry through that timeframe.
Temperatures in the mid to upper
70s by this afternoon now.
What we're watching actually to
bring us our rain and storms ths
afternoon is this little piece
of energy up toward Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio.
Why we're watching this here iss
it progresses actually southwar,
this is going to be kind of the
driver of some of our storms.
Now one of the reasons why we wh
kind of what's happening right
now and how it progresses throuh
the afternoon as you'll notice
how this line is kind of bowing
out like a comma shape.
This is indicative of a lot
of really strong winds.
So wind gusts in excess of 60 m.
Also you can kind of see
a little bit of that.
Line trying to form ahead
of some of those storms.
Again, this is Futurecast well,
well up to our N that's also
kind of showing that popup storm
potential ahead of the main lin.
A lot of times we look at the
history of a line to see what is
going to do a little bit later .
So kind of some of the things
that I'm watching this afternoon
that I want you to be watching
out for two again is heavy rain,
frequent lightning and gusty wis
with this line primary risk 60 e
per hour wind gusts if not stror
but that we could see some of te
scattered storms ahead of the main line.
So oftentimes when we.
Enter the summertime season.
We get some of those popup stors
from just daytime heating,
of course, the humidity of the ,
the sunshine and the fact that e
have warmer temperatures today,
it's going to kind of be similar because
we all have all of those factor.
We'll get some of those scatterd
storms again ahead of the main .
So watch this progression here
by three 4:00 o'clock.
We have storms moving into parts
here of the Charlotte metro area
and areas N but see how some
of those scattered storms again
are ahead of the main line.
That's a little bit further back
toward Boone parts of Jefferson there.
So this does the expect to
get closer to Charlotte,
probably the 485 loop closer
to about 6:00 o'clock and then
eventually shifts further South.
So you'll notice the timing
here much later on today.
So you still have plenty of time
to do those outdoor activities,
a mountains, foothills 3 and four closer
to 6:00 PM for most of the metr.
And then of course we'll be watg
8-9 o'clock still some storms for areas
in the southern Piedmont down td
the Sandhills before we eventually do
clear things out by 10:00 o'clo.
So let's talk whatever of
course our impacts are.
I told you, heavy rain,
gusty winds.
Frequent lightning,
but the actual potential for see
storms is mainly Charlotte areaN
Remember that severe storm risk
is 60 mile per hour wind gusts
or one inch hail or a tornado.
The one inch hail the tornado.
Not going to happen.
We could see some small little hailstones,
but not expected they get to quarter size.
So again, area shaded in yellow,
chance for a few severe thunderm
warnings later on today,
areas in blue,
you're still going to see storms
with that line moving through,
but they're going to be much
less aggressive I would say just
because those lines typically,
of course weekend as they move further South.
Now as we look ahead toward
tomorrow especially,
you're going to notice this humy
kind of slowly starts to uptick.
Today we're seeing dew points in the 50s,
not necessarily bad.
But we've been in the 30s and 4o
you will notice that small chan.
Then again this afternoon we wee
just the lower 60s and then even
into the mid to even upper 60s.
I want to just cry honestly just
thinking about the fact that tomorrow
we could have a few dew points near 68.
It's just something that we dont
see typically till closer to
the early part of summer.
So likely a shock to the system
for many as you check out the
sky roofing 7 day forecast,
it's one of the reasons why tomw
wet temperatures in the mid 80s,
uptick in humidity,
we're going to see another
opportunity for scattered storm.
Rinse repeat on Tuesday,
but Tuesday actually could be te
warmest day of the year so far,
getting into the upper 80s,
which means a few spots locally
could be even close to 90 degre.
Now thankfully this little taste
of summer doesn't last the entie
week as we stay in the 80s all ,
but we do get some slightly drir
air shifting in by late Wednesdy
and into Thursday and Friday.