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Wednesday is now a WRAL Weather Alert Day, with most of the viewing area under a heat advisory.

ð¨WRAL Weather Alert Dayð¨Near-record highs on tap Wednesday, heat index could reach 106

<p>Good morning. I'm meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. Today is a Wral weather alert day. We have a heat advisory that goes into effect at 11 a.m. Very quickly. We're going to see temperatures heating up. It'll feel like 100 by around 11 and then later in the afternoon, anywhere from 103 to 106. So just uh make sure that you're not spending too much time outside and if you have to spend time outside, you need to be especially diligent to follow your heat protocols. Look at that heat index forecast. It's just, you know, looking really hot for us, you know, anywhere from 102 to 104 on through the afternoon and even into the evening hours. So just be careful out there. Uh We take a look at our forecast, our high temperature 100 in the triangle 101 down into the sand hills 99 in some of our eastern counties. The record for today at RDU is 102. So we're very close to record highs, but we've already hit 100 this year. We hit 100 on Sunday. So this would be the second day this week that we've hit triple digits, check out that muggy meter way up there at 74. That is a very high due point. That's one of the highest that we, uh, that we ever see. We're going to keep it in that tropical zone for the next 56 days maybe. And that's going to continue to keep us with that potential for really high heating disease could be feeling like one or three to 104 this afternoon, maybe 103, Thursday and Friday, which is just under heat advisory criteria for the Saturday and Sunday at 107. Definitely heat advisory criteria. So, um, it just remains very hot for us all the way into the weekend. One thing that does happen tomorrow as a front comes through brings us a chance of some scattered thunderstorms that may drop our temperature down into the low to mid nineties, but it's still going to be very, very muggy out. Um Remember as you're walking the dog during this heat heat wave, uh walk the dog in the grass, walk yourself in the grass. It's just cooler there. Concrete can get up to 120 degrees in this heat. And uh the black top, the asphalt can reach about 145. So that can definitely burn some pause out there. So look after yourself and your pets, temperatures over the weekend will be in the mid to upper nineties. Our best chance of thunderstorms this week will be tomorrow with a front, that front stalls and weakens a little bit for Friday, Saturday and Sunday bringing a small chance for storms.</p>

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