VIDEO FORECAST

WEATHER DISCUSSION: Look for partly cloudy skies overnight with a continued slight chance of a shower and rather warm and muggy lows in the lower 70s. The cold front slowly moves across the western and central Carolinas Friday and Friday night bringing widely scattered mainly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms across southeast North Carolina with very warm highs in the upper 80s. The front slowly moves into the local area this weekend and stalls out bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms both Saturday and Sunday with highs dropping down into the lower 80s. Early next week… the front will essentially remain stalled along the southeast coast while two tropical systems are being tracked in the southwest Atlantic. Humberto will likely become a hurricane and by early next week will be somewhere between the Bahamas and Bermuda. A tropical wave currently near the southeast Bahamas will likely develop into a depression late Friday or this weekend and potentially could become the next named system Imelda as it moves north and northwest. The threat for potential Imelda to impact the southeast states early next week has increased. Hazardous surf… rip currents and marine conditions are expected early next week. It is still too early to determine if the Cape Fear will get impacts or what they might be… but there is at least a possibility of heavy rains and gusty winds early next week unless to storm curves northeast away from the Carolinas. Now is the time to review your hurricane plan and monitor the latest updates on storm activity. Stay tuned to WWAY and StormTrack 3 for the latest on both systems.    

WWAY FORECAST:                                                

Overnight: Partly cloudy skies with a slight chance of a shower. Rather warm and muggy low in the lower 70s. Winds south becoming west at 5-10 mph. 

Friday: Partly sunny with a chance of mainly afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Very warm and humid high in the upper 80s. Heat index values in the low to mid 90s in the afternoon. Winds southwest becoming south at 5-10 mph. 

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low around 70.  

Saturday: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms… especially in the afternoon. A little cooler with a high in the lower 80s.