A one-two punch from the sky may wash out weekend plans for apple picking, football and other events that call for reasonable dryness.

Back-to-back storms moving up from the south are expected to dump between three and five inches of rain on the area, and it may last all weekend.

Tropical Storm Kyle was barreling in on the south on Thursday and threatening to graduate to hurricane status. At the National Weather Service in Gray, a meteorologist said there won’t be much left of Kyle besides sloppiness by the time it reaches New England.

Just enough to make things unpleasant.

“We’re not looking at a whole lot or wind with this,” said meteorologist Tom Berman. “Mostly, it will be rain. Two doses of rain.”

Kyle will begin soaking the area Friday afternoon and into the evening, Berman said. A second Atlantic storm, akin to a classic northeaster, will come in as the second part of the tag team weather system on Saturday.

“Stay home and watch the debate,” Berman advised. “Or it may be too wet for that too, you never know.”

By late Thursday afternoon, there were no mass postponements of football or other sports, said Sun Journal sports editor Steve Sherlock. Most league organizers are expected to play it by ear and begin making announcements as needed on Friday.

Others, however, were confident that the coming rain will ruin weekend plans; confident enough to cancel events days in advance.

The Apple Pumpkin Festival, scheduled for Saturday in Livermore Falls, was pushed back several weeks as event organizers anticipated a soggy weekend.

“The field would be mangled and it wouldn’t be fair to the vendors,” said spokesman Phil Poirier. “We are not going to win this one.”