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The next several days will be pleasant, with temperatures rising mid-to-late week.

Warmer, drier mid-week; low odds of tropical system off NC coast

I'm WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. Thursday is trending much wetter in central and eastern North Carolina due to a coastal low that has a small chance of becoming tropical. That chance is only about 10%. It's not going to spend much time over water, so we're not expecting any kind of significant system. Even if that 10% chance were to occur, the impacts would be the same for us, and that means we're going to. More rain on Thursday. This cluster of clouds off the southeast coast, some rain as well that we're going to be watching. Wednesday we'll see an increase in upper level clouds, but the rain on Wednesday will stay to our south in South Carolina. Overnight into Thursday morning, we'll start to see the rain spread into the southern part of our area. The best chance for rain for the morning commute Thursday appears to be in our southern counties, but it could make It as far north as the triangle. We should see rain fill in during the day, and it's looking a lot wetter. We bumped up rain chances to 80%. And again, this doesn't matter if this is tropical, subtropical, or barely even a low pressure system. Rain chances are likely in our area on Thursday. As for how much rain we could see it generally looking at that 0.5 inch to 1.5 mark for central. Carolina 2 to 3 inches closer to the coast and in the mountains that chance, and those totals are a bit lower, running at about less than 1 inch or half an inch. So let's take a look at the next 7 days. Wednesday still looks nice and dry, very warm as well. 88 degrees for the highs. We get into the weekend. Highs are back near 90. Weekend storm chances are back, but that will come from a different system moving in from the west.

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