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The weekend will be nice and mostly dry. Highs each day reach near 90s. 

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Hello everyone, I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast for this Thursday night. We've had some showers and storms in our northern counties this evening. Some will last past midnight. We'll keep a 20-30% chance of rain through at least 1 a.m. and then overnight it should be quiet, and I believe we'll wake up to mostly cloudy skies for your Friday with no rain in the area. So we'll go mostly cloudy to overcast, 678 a.m., 73 is the low, by 100 a.m. we're up to about 79. Today's high was 89 added RDU. We should hit 90 tomorrow, maybe a little bit higher than that. It'll be the 1st 90 we've had for the month of August, believe it or not, and there's a chance for storms tomorrow. It's about a 30, maybe 40% chance. The latest run of Futurecast that I've looked at this evening would make me think about a 30% chance for a storm. And it's a low chance for a storm, but we still have a risk for flooding. It's still a low end risk for flooding for the day tomorrow, off to the west in the mountains, it's a medium risk. So, if theoretically, any of the thunderstorms dump heavy rain, we could see some localized flooding, but I don't think it'll be a big issue. Heading into the weekend, it's a 30% chance for a storm on Saturday, none on Sunday. Sunday may feature a little drop in humidity, and that would really be nice, cause lately it's been feeling like a sauna out there, or I should say a steam room. So partly to mostly cloudy overnight. Any of the showers and storms will come to an end after midnight. 73 in Raleigh, 75 in Fayetteville, and then tomorrow, a few scattered storms, upper 80s to low 90s for the highs, 90 in Raleigh 92 in Fayetteville. So rain chances are dropping, temperatures are going up, and more in the way of 90s as we get into next week. That's our forecast update. Have a great night and I'll see you tomorrow.

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