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The weekend is looking warmer with highs climbing to the 90s. Meteorologists are watching a front that could bring scattered showers. 


Summer heat strikes back heading into the weekend, scattered storms possible

Hello everyone, I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the WRL Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Thursday night. Showers and some thunderstorms coming to an end. By daybreak, it will be clear, it will be milder, 66 to low. By 10 a.m. we're up to about 78, and tomorrow will be a warmer day. We got up to 89 today at RDU. Tomorrow at lunchtime, about 86 by 3 o'clock 92. Plenty of sunshine throughout the day. It will be a dry day and for area high school football games, the weather looks pretty good. We'll take a look at those numbers in a second. So as a whole for the state tomorrow, we'll have morning fog and boon in Asheville. Later in the afternoon, partly cloudy skies, and isolated shower can't be ruled out, but it will be a warmer day statewide. 92 at Rocky Mountain, 94 in Fayetteville, 92 here in Raleigh. Football Friday forecast, mainly clear sky. It'll be warm during the game, no need for a jacket while you're sitting on the bleachers, 79 at 9 o'clock, 78 by 10. Overall, it will be pleasant. It will be a little bit more humid than what we had today. Saturday, the 2nd of two cold fronts come in. The first cold front brought those showers that we saw this evening. The second front brings another round of showers and thunderstorms, about a 30% chance in the afternoon, about a 40 to 50% chance in the evening. We also have a level one risk for severe weather we see the dark shaded green area that includes parts of Wake County, parts of the triangle and points northward in Virginia. Damaging wind gusts and small hail can't be ruled out. That front will successfully make its way through. Leaving us mostly cloudy on Sunday. Some showers and possible storms down east locally we'll just go about a 20% chance of rain, highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Quick look at what's happening in the tropics. Still watching that disturbance, maybe a little better organized today, 60% chance of tropical development over the next 48 hours and 90% over the next 7 days. And if you remember from yesterday, this red zone curved a little farther to the north. This has all been shifted. Farther south, since it's taking longer to develop, it is taking more of a westward track, moving west 5 to 10 MPH. Interesting to note that the European model really has this floundering, never really develops all that well, makes its way to the islands, and it just pretty much fizzles. That would be the best case scenario. The American model, each one that comes out, has it developing into a hurricane. It goes in so many different directions and spots, so it's very inconsistent. So, we'll continue to update you on that and what's going on as we go through the weekend. So it's clearing and milder overnight. Any rain will come to an end. Lows will be in the low to mid-60s, and then tomorrow it's a bright and hotter day. High temperatures in the low to maybe mid 90s, 90 in South Hill, 92 in Southern Pines, 94 Fayetteville, 92 here in Raleigh. That's our forecast update for this Thursday night. Have a great night. I'll see you tomorrow.

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