WEATHER ALERT: Strong to severe thunderstorms on Saturday

This weekend could bring with it some weather challenges, which is why our 22 news storm team has issued a weather alert now in effect for Saturday. Meteorologist Adam Strunko is standing by now in the forecast center. Adam, we could see some haze, humidity and even potential storms. That's right. Sierra. We had a nice day out there today. No question about it. Humidity came down. We got a break from that smoke, but that's gonna be changing as we head through the first part of the weekend. The humidity is returning. The haze is returning and we're gonna have the threat for some severe weather, especially I think as we head into tomorrow afternoon live look from our Springfield camera and really nothing going on. We've had a few clouds out there, but all all in all, it's been a quiet evening and temperatures out there right now. Sixties and seventies were 65 in Springfield in Westfield, 67 in North Hampton, 62 in Orange and we're 61 over in Pittsfield. Humidity still nice and low, at least for now. We are continuing to see two points in the fifties, 59 in Springfield, 55 Westfield, 53 in Pittsfield. But these two points are gonna be on the rise, especially as we head through the day tomorrow. E. S. P. Live Doppler radar. Nothing out there is the beam sweep on by. Have a few clouds out there, but we are staying dry. See a few showers out over the Great Lakes. Those will pretty much stay off to our north as we head through tonight. Now, this is what our concern is for tomorrow. With the severe weather, you can see that the eastern part central and eastern part of the state are on the level one. However, here in western Massachusetts, it's the Hudson River Valley of New York. We're in a level two. So that means the threat for severe weather and a little bit higher for us as we head into tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. Here is look at the day castles. We headed to tomorrow morning. Nothing's going on tomorrow morning. So if you have things get done, best bet is to do it before noontime. So seven o'clock, partly sunny, 59 degrees in the noontime. We start to see some showers and downpours, maybe some thunder and lightning as the warmer, more humid air starts to really work in 78 degrees, and we may see some sunshine as we head towards three o'clock. So we may get a quiet period where things are kind of dry during the mid afternoon hours, 84 degrees. But by the evening hours, that's when our main concern is for the severe weather. At seven o'clock could be some strong, severe thunderstorms with torrential rain, strong, damaging winds, frequent lightning and even hail. So be ready for that during the afternoon, late afternoon and evening hours, 75 degrees. We are, though, tracking big changes for the second half of the weekend. Sunday is looking a lot better. We get rid of the smoke, we get rid of the humidity and we see that sunshine. We'll show that to you in just a few minutes in the 22 storm team forecast.