WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Your First Alert Forecast sizzles again Thursday with temperatures in the 90s and 100+ heat index values likely by lunch. Scattered storm clusters will bring pockets of cooling relief in the afternoon and evening; they may also come with some unwanted extras like blinding downpours, frequent lightning, gusty winds, and hail. Stay alert with your WECT Weather App.

Your First Alert Forecast maintains lows in the 70s, highs in the 90s, and stressful 100+ heat index values into the weekend. Storm chances should stay around a 30% baseline for the Friday through Sunday periods before stepping to 50% for Monday, July 1. Any cooling this rain front might offer will be short-lived, as highs back deep in the 90s remain in the outlook for the Fourth.

In the tropics, Caribbean disturbance Invest 94-L has a small development window near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula this weekend. A separate disturbance, Invest 95-L, is riding the low latitudes between Africa and the Caribbean islands and is also a gradual formation threat. Regardless of development, neither of these features present any definable hazards to the Carolinas right now.

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