WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Your First Alert Forecast opens with a seasonably hot Wednesday with highs in the 90s, heat index values peaking in the triple digits, and the chance for a cooling shower or thundershower. Next: a low pressure system will orchestrate even higher rain odds between Thursday and Saturday. There ought to be dry spells but, just the same, be alert for periods of locally heavy rainfall. Also note a likely enhanced risk of rip currents amid onshore breezes in this time. Under the rainclouds, temperatures will lean into the cooler 70s and 80s; toastier 90s will return with a sunnier forecast for Sunday and much of next week.
The NHC has awarded a disturbance off the Carolina Coast low odds for development over the next couple of days. Water’s warm but atmospheric conditions are not ideal. We’ll watch of course! The Cape Fear late week forecast is the same, regardless: rainier, cooler, rip currents… pic.twitter.com/xtxVqOLzTJ
— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) July 10, 2024
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