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After a dry and calm Thursday morning with cool temps in the 70s, prepare for a hot, humid afternoon and a stormy evening.

Hot & stormy: Thursday brings temps in the 90s followed by severe storm potential

Good morning. I'm meteorologist, Elizabeth Gardner. It is going to be a hot day today. It's already warm out there this morning as you're heading out, we'll see partly cloudy skies definitely feels a bit more muggy. We take a look at our severe threat and we do have a level one risk for severe storms today. They're likely to be fairly late in the day. We're likely to see them starting up near the Virginia Line around the evening, commute 56 o'clock and then spreading southward through the evening across the viewing area, damaging wind would be our big threat for today. Some heavy rain as possible. Here's a look at the big picture. You can see that stationary front, the yellow and the blue, excuse me, the red and the blue together there that will continue to slide eastward and park itself over us over the weekend, continue to bring us a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Here's futurecast and we'll take that through today, partly cloudy skies to start with at five o'clock, some showers and storms way up in our northern counties and then through the evening that slides southward. So at 10, we're seeing it covering a good bit of the viewing area and then it starts to taper off after midnight, but we may still see a lingering shower for Friday morning. And then of course, we'll have a chance Friday afternoon and every afternoon all the way through Monday, it's not likely to be a wash out any of those days, but we will have the potential for late day storms, weather watcher Bobby Brown in Enfield, beautiful shots of the clouds reflected in her pond. We would love to see your photos to go to dot com and search weather watchers post those pictures there. We'll put them on T VA hot one today. 92 in Raleigh, 91 in Durham, 92 in Fayetteville. We have hit 92 already this year, but that's the hottest we've been so far. Now, here's a thing that will save us today. The dew point will be in the low to mid sixties. If the dew point were going to be up in the seventies, we would see a heat index in the upper nineties. Instead, the heat index for today is likely to hold at around 94 still going to feel very hot, but we're not going to see a big jump in that heat index. We will see a heat index in the low to mid nineties all the way through Monday before our pattern changes back to some cooler temperatures by the middle of next week. Here's a look at that seven day forecast. 92 today will hit 91 again on Sunday, 89 on Monday for the holiday itself. Just keep in mind that each afternoon and evening all the way through Monday, we'll have a chance for scattered storms.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 -- Many sheriffs do not want to do the job of the federal government. That is what immigration is. They want to provide safety and protection to all local residents and not possibly separate parents from their children.

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A YMCA employee is charged with felony secret peeping in connection with incidents that allegedly occurred at a Raleigh elementary school.

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A preliminary hearing took place Wednesday at Fort Liberty for Sgt. Gabriel Ceville, who is a suspect in the February 2023 death of his infant daughter.



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Police are investigating two separate drive-by shootings in Durham that left 3 juveniles injured Wednesday afternoon. 



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Durham police investigating 2 shootings involving juveniles

Email exchanges between a North Carolina lawmaker and people with concerns over a proposal to repeal the law allowing people to wear masks in public for health reasons could point to a broader political miscalculation in an election year. The GOP-led state House rejected the proposal Wednesday.

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The bill would speed up the process to partner with a new university, but the school system is still planning to partner with Wake Tech in the fall.

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WASHINGTON â The Justice Department and a group of states plan to sue Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, as soon as Thursday, accusing it of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the live entertainment industry, said three people familiar with the matter.

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