First Alert Day

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The complex of showers and thunderstorms that moved through overnight and this morning stabilized the atmosphere and has really taken "the wind out of the sails" for severe weather here in the Triangle for this afternoon and evening. While the odds for rain this evening are not zero, anything that does try to form late this afternoon would likely be widely separated. It's a little different over the far southern reaches of the viewing area where there can still be a shower or thunderstorm around into early this evening.

The surface cold front will hang up right over or just to the southeast of RDU later tonight and tomorrow. It will serve as the pathway for a weak wave of low pressure to ripple east along tomorrow. The result will be a semi-organized area of showers and thunderstorms Friday, mainly from the Triangle on to the south. This wave will move off the East Coast tomorrow night, allowing a cooler and drier air mass to settle into the Carolinas over the weekend. The weather across the Carolinas will be about as good as one could hope for on this Mother's Day weekend. We'll see sunshine, and it will be cool & breezy with temps in the comfortable 70s by day and the upper 40s and 50s at night.

High pressure will linger nearby Monday, giving us another nice day, but clouds from the next system will be streaming in from the west-southwest later Monday afternoon and at night. We continue to speed up the arrival of the rain with this storm, allowing it to arrive as early as Tuesday morning now. A few scattered showers will linger on Wednesday, and then some sunshine returns on Thursday.

Have a great evening!

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