WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Your First Alert Forecast for Thursday replicates Wednesday’s modest midsummer heating with highs mainly in the upper 80s and lower 90s… mercifully off the pace of the more intense middle and upper 90s felt earlier in the week. In the day: scattered showers and storms ought to focus on a faint sea breeze boundary. In the evening: the approach of a weak cold front may drop additional clusters or lines of storms in from the northwest. Any cells may be locally heavy, gusty, and rich with lightning. Your First Alert Team will be keenly watching the radar to ensure safe clearance for WECT’s Sounds of Summer concert at Wrightsville Beach Park; in any case it’ll be a good day and night for you to keep an eye to the sky and your WECT Weather App’s interactive radar.
Onto the next round: spotty daytime storms have a chance to morph into larger clusters or line segments in the evening. Keep an eye to the northwestern sky and your WECT Weather App. pic.twitter.com/95x8eMAsab
— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) July 18, 2024
In the surf, expect a moderate to high rip risk Thursday… with water temperatures near 83.
New tropical storm development is unlikely across the Atlantic Basin through this weekend.
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