While rain remains in Fayetteville’s forecast, the city and region may avoid the heavier downpours this weekend that had been possible due to Atlantic Ocean storms, according to overnight and Saturday weather data.

Storms off the coast — Imelda, currently named tropical depression 9, and Hurricane Humberto, which is presently further out in the Atlantic — are bringing rain to the NC coast and further inland, including southeastern North Carolina.

Chick Jacobs, an experienced weather tracker for The Fayetteville Observer, wrote on X just before 10 a.m. that “overnight trends are encouraging for the Carolinas. A slower Imelda and a stronger Humberto reduce the chances of a landfall and keeps torrential rainfall off the coast.”

The National Weather Service in Raleigh forecast rainfall a

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