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Wednesday was quite the day for severe weather and storms with more on the way for Thursday. A heat advisory coupled with more scattered storm chances Thursday has prompted another WRAL Weather Alert Day. 

More extreme heat and more possible storms on the way for Thursday

I'm meteorologist Kat Campbell. It was quite the stormy afternoon. Things are settling down tonight. High pressure is in control, and that's what steered these storms from north to south, and they're now moving south of us for the most part. But what a day these storms were electric producing wind damage and a lot of lightning on top of that. We've had over 15,000 strikes of lightning at latest look and the rainfall, not everybody got to. Out and see the rain to help cool things down today. This is why we had a 50% chance of storms. The ones that developed though really packed a punch. We had up to 2 inch totals of rain, but the western part of our area really did not look out with the rain today. 74, the low tonight in the Triangle, 73 in Fayetteville 70 in Roxborough. These numbers are way better than the past several nights. It should be more comfortable. It still feels steamy. It still feels like summer, but definitely a step in the right. Direction and tomorrow it's hot once again with scattered storms. High temperatures are in the mid to upper 90s. It's a WRAL weather alert day again. We've got a heat advisory, heat indices over 105, and we've also got the threat for some strong storms tomorrow, especially, uh, once we get to 12on through the afternoon, I would say noon through about 7 o'clock would be your best shot tomorrow. 97, the high otherwise and things should quiet down for us overnight for. Friday, a 30% chance of a thunderstorm firing up during the afternoon and early evening. Otherwise still hot and still humid for us Friday. The heat index tomorrow, hour by hour, we're already in the triple digits near lunchtime or shortly after by the afternoon, 108, our peak heat index forecast in the triangle at 3 o'clock and we'll watch for some storms again to hopefully help cool things off a little bit later in the day Thursday. Friday we'll watch for some storms, especially Friday evening and night, and then once we get to the weekend, storm chances just 20%, but it is hot. highs are in the mid to upper 90s and some relief is finally in sight. We've been telling you about this since the beginning of the week. It does look like temperatures drop a bit by next Wednesday. That comes with more cloud cover and still hot temperatures just not quite so bad. That 89 looks pretty good compared to our 100s lately.

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