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After a week of extreme and dangerous heat, central North Carolina settles into a more "normal" summer pattern. We will see high temperatures in the mid-90s with a chance for pop-up thunderstorms each day.

Hot weekend ahead with chances of pop-up storms

Hello everyone, I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Friday night. Hope you had a good day. It was another hot one. Tomorrow, if if you're heading to the lake, stepping out early in the morning, we expect a dry start, mostly sunny skies, 75 at 7. By 11 a.m. we're up to about 86. An hour by hour tomorrow we'll be in the same territory we were today. Now we actually have 99 out at RDU. We're forecasting 95. We're going to shoot for about 96 tomorrow. There's a 30% chance for thunderstorms during the afternoon. That chance should increase going into the evening by 8 o'clock. We're down to about 85. And hour by hour tomorrow, the heat index value is up to. 102. That should be the peak. Now for a heat advisory, it's 105 for two or more hours, consecutive hours. Not going to see that tomorrow. Probably won't see that for the day on Sunday either. And then we're watching for a few storms, 30% from 2 to 5, 40%, 6789 o'clock. So the bottom line is for your weekend you have a small opportunity for some showers and storms in the afternoon and evening, both Saturday and Sunday. In both days we expect our high temperatures to be in the mid 90s. Now we're also watching what's going on in the tropics. There's an area of disturbed weather that's crossing the Yucatan Peninsula right now. The yellow area is the Bay of Campeche. As it moves into that region, there's about a 30% chance over the next couple of days for tropical development. The European model really doesn't develop anything, but the American model develops a closed low and then immediately shoots into Mexico. I don't think this is going to be any concern for us. It probably won't even become a tropical depression. If it does, Chris and Grant will talk about that over the weekend. So our forecast for the next few hours, there could be a shower in our northern counties through at least 3, maybe 4 a.m. Otherwise it's partly cloudy, 75 in Raleigh, 76 in Fayetteville, mostly sunny to start the day. Later in the afternoon, a few spotty storms. It's a 30% chance, 40% heading into the evening. The same will be set for the day on Sunday. You could cut and paste this forecast for Sunday. We expect a high of about 96. That's our forecast update. Have a great night. Have a great weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.

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