Alright, we are full summertime mode
and that means a chance for storms.
We're getting more pictures and
videos from tonight's storms from
you video of some minor flooding
areas in the Myers Park area too.
And check out this picture
of a lightning strike.
Very compelling there. OK, what's
the setup for tomorrow?
Very similar to today guys Vanessa and Fred.
We had the heat and humidity.
The first part of the day and that
certainly feeds the storms and
certainly keeping them around.
And that's why we have those
storms out there tonight.
Because a lot of us did not
get the storms earlier today,
so the atmosphere is basically untapped,
and now we're starting to tap
into what's out there for tonight.
And basically we're running ourselves out.
So that's why we have still at this hour.
Typically you expect the storms
to start to wrap up by now,
especially once you lose that
heating of the day.
But really,
the heating of today is still around
and it's fuel for the storms.
A live look right now from the
atrium health ballpark in Kannapolis.
And you can see some wind driven rain,
as you can tell from the light
there at the ballpark.
Also notice the flags blowing in the wind.
We have some gusty winds,
pockets of heavy rainfall and
lightning still ongoing at this hour.
The bigger picture across the
southeast we have scattered
showers from the coast as well.
Central North Carolina into parts
of the South Carolina as well even
back into parts of the mountains.
Here's a look closer to home and
you can see scattered showers.
Across the area for tonight,
none of these are severe.
However,
we certainly have pockets of
heavy rain that can lead to some
areas of flooding overnight into
the start of your day tomorrow,
so the showers and storms will likely
wrap up over the next few hours,
but will still have that flood
potential throughout the overnight.
A closer look for those of you over
near Wadesboro South of there Ruby as well,
and parts of Chesterfield County light
to moderate showers as it stands now,
the severe threat.
Is now over for you.
And you can see over in the Charlotte area
we've picked up about four inches of rain,
and we could certainly use
all the rain we can get,
especially dealing with the drought
situation of moderate drought as that
was released earlier today this morning.
Also nearly three inches of rainfall
in northern parts of our area,
and about 2 inches over into
parts of Chesterfield County.
And there's more rain headed our way,
so we'll start the day tomorrow,
dry by early afternoon.
Pockets of isolated to scattered
showers will be possible.
Even a small risk for severe
weather tomorrow,
so let's go through futurecast.
So by noon tomorrow lunchtime
temperatures around 90 to 92.
But we know that heat index is
going to be near 100 degrees by
lunchtime tomorrow and we'll continue
to see the heat across the area
throughout the afternoon and once
again another round of isolated
to scattered showers and storms.
They could fire up between.
Two and about 6:00 PM tomorrow,
and that can certainly impact those
of you who have weekend plans that
may start a little early or the
evening commute, or it could cause another
delay at the airport as we had that weather
warning at Charlotte Douglas this evening.
So we'll watch for that lightning
potential once again tomorrow.
By 11:00 o'clock tonight most areas
will start to dry out, so we have a
low risk for severe weather tomorrow.
Today we were at a medium,
so we'll bring it down.
A notch for tomorrow afternoon
and tomorrow evening.
The better part of your day
is going to be about the heat,
heat index values,
triple digit heat for several hours tomorrow,
and we'll look ahead for the start
of your weekend with highs near 91.
But cooler air is just around the corner.
By Sunday highs will be just near 80,
so upper 70s by the second half
of the weekend.
7 day forecast shows the heat slowly
returning and will return to the
low 90s by Tuesday and Wednesday.
OK.