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Clouds helped keep temperatures in the mid 80s Thursday afternoon in Raleigh and Durham.

Mid 80s, Level 1 risk for severe storms in store Thursdayâï¸

<p>I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilmouth in the WRL severe weather center. It's a steamy day out there and we do have a heat advisory in effect for Johnston Wayne, Sampson and Cumberland counties until 5 p.m. That's where the heat index could get up to 105. If the sun is able to get out of the clouds a little bit, we lowered the high for today to 91 because we have the clouds and we have some rain moving in heat index up to about 101. That's for the triangle, pretty much the same thing for Friday. But then some bigger heat over the weekend. Highs in the mid nineties heat index anywhere from 105 to 107. And then the heat backs off again a little bit as we head into Monday. Now we do have an update with the drought status. The drought monitor came out today and no surprise it did worsen. Last week, 0% of the state was under a moderate drought and this week we're now at 56% including most of our area under a moderate drought. We haven't had rain in quite some time. It's good that we're getting some rain moving in now with this weak cold front. So we'll have some scattered showers and a few storms today. In fact, we have a level one risk for severe storms for the southeastern part of the viewing area. The biggest threat would be some damaging wind gusts and this is south and east of the Triangle. So, let's talk about the rain this afternoon. We'll have some scattered showers and storms this afternoon with the best chance south and east of the Triangle this evening, it's really just some hit and miss showers and thunderstorms. That will be possible. The front stalls over us and then kind of fizzles apart as we head into Friday. But there's enough lift and moisture that we could see a couple of spotty showers and thunderstorms as we head into Friday as well. And over the weekend, it looks fairly unsettled Saturday, we have a 50% chance for rain and Sunday, we have a 60% chance for rain. So at least we have some rain chances showing up on the seven day. Now, the one thing that's also still showing up on the seven day is the heat, high temperatures will stay in the nineties for at least the next seven days. So the heat continues, but at least we have some better rain chances ahead</p>

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