Rain for Friday; Storms for Friday Night?

It's still looking like we are in for a soaking rainfall as we wrap up the week and head into the weekend. An area of low pressure will track just to our west late Friday bringing rain showers to our region by midday Friday. With rain in the forecast through Saturday morning, 1.5" to 2.0" of rain is possible.

We are now also looking for the potential for thunderstorms late Friday night and Saturday morning. The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of eastern North Carolina under a "slight risk" for severe weather late Friday into early Saturday.

I have more on this early weekend storm system in this mornings video blog update...