FORECAST: Messy, muggy day with isolated showers and lightning

ABOVE: The latest forecast update from Severe Weather Center 9. To stay on top of changing weather conditions, be sure to download our free WSOC-TV weather app.

FORECAST:

• Main threats today will be localized downpours and cloud-to-ground lightning.
• Showers will be isolated throughout the morning, but they will start to organize by late morning to early afternoon.

View of Uptown at 10 a.m. from Channel 9′s tower camera:

Uptown Charlotte enveloped in clouds, rain as thunder rumbles in the area

• Winds will pick up but won’t pose too much of a threat.
• Greatest threat for lightning appears to be around noon through late afternoon.
• There appears to be a brief break by midday so that should allow for things to calm down a little bit.
• Highs will be in the upper 70s today and low 80s tomorrow.
• Sunday looks messy with on-and-off showers picking back up by late morning. Rainfall totals for the next 48 hours look around .75-1″ for the city.
• Dewpoints will be high throughout the weekend so it’s going to be feeling muggy.

As of 8:07 a.m., Stanly County is under a Flash Flood Warning. Over 2 inches of rain has already fallen. Additional amounts will probably exceed 1 inch.

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