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Get ready for the heat and humidity to hit a new level over the weekend. Temperatures will steadily climb from the lower 90s Friday to 99 degrees on Sunday and Monday.

Get ready for the heat and humidity to hit a new level over the weekend. Temperatures will steadily climb from the lower 90s Friday to 99 degrees on Sunday and Monday. If RDU manages to reach 100 degrees, it would be the first instance since June 16, 2015.

The afternoon heat index will peak at or above 105 degrees over the weekend. <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/heat-safety-tips/11257548/">Take precautions and be on guard</a> for the signs of heat stroke and heat exhaustion.

Storm chances won’t go away entirely during this heat wave, but the coverage and duration should stay at a minimum thanks to high pressure. During the next work week, scattered storms will become more likely as highs ease back into the mid 90s.

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Extreme temperatures: The heat will build to the highest point so far this summer late in the weekend. Highs will be near 100 on Sunday and Monday. That’s unseasonably warm, but probably staying a few degrees shy of threatening any records.

Severe weather: Widespread and organized severe weather is unlikely over the next few days. Any storms that pop up with the heat of the day could pose a threat for damaging wind gusts.

Tropics: The Atlantic Ocean remains quiet, and the National Hurricane Center does not expect tropical storm formation in the next five days.

It will feel like 105 degrees or more this weekend.

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilm in the WRL severe weather center. Pretty nice weather today. A mix of sun and clouds with temperatures close to normal for this time of year. We reach 80 degrees in Raleigh and Durham, 79 in Rocky Mount. 81 for the high temperature in Fayetteville. If you want to have dinner outside this evening, it's going to be a lovely evening to do that at 7 p.m. We're in the mid seventies, mostly sunny skies, low seventies at 8 p.m. and then we're back down to the sixties by nine o'clock and certainly no rain in the forecast for today. For the next three days. The weather stays pretty quiet and the big story will be the warming of our temperatures 80 today, 84 Tuesday and then 88 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Once we get to the holiday weekend, that's when things turn unsettled and temperatures will drop a little bit. We have scattered storms in the forecast for Friday, especially Friday night. Saturday, scattered storms possible at any point in time, just a few spotty showers and storms Sunday and then we're back to some scattered storm chances on Monday, no day looks like a washout as of now. So keep checking back in and we'll have a better idea on the exact timing and amounts once we get to around Thursday or so, here's a look at Futurecast. This is for Thursday morning. It's a dry start to the day. But then Thursday night we have some scattered showers. So most of Thursday is dry. It's not until very late. We could see a few showers. Friday morning looks dry. Maybe you're hitting the road early on Friday for the long holiday weekend, it looks dry for most of the state. And then once we get to Friday evening, it's the western half of the state that has some storms for us. It'll be Friday night, an overnight Friday in early Saturday, we'll have a good opportunity for some rain and storms. Saturday morning, rain chances for us fairly slim and really across most of North Carolina rain, chances look pretty low Saturday morning. But then we get into the afternoon and evening, the peak heating and we'll have some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Sunday morning. We could have some rain along the North Carolina coast and then just some hit showers and storms across a good part of the state. But a lot of dry time as well. Monday for Memorial Day, we'll have some hit and miss showers and storms as well. So it's very quiet for the next few days with temperatures warming up. We're in the low nineties by Thursday and then temperatures back off a little bit over the weekend. But again, that does come with the potential for some scattered showers and storms.

WRAL WeatherCenter Forecast

John Boyer is a broadcast meteorologist and N.C. State alumnus.

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