WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Your First Alert Forecast for Monday night maintains a good chance for showers, downpours, and waterspouts; these elements will either drift up from the south or in off the ocean, so keep an eye to those directions and your WECT Weather App as you go about your plans!
Layers and layers of clouds… Additional spotty downpours with isolated flooding possible to watch for this Monday… Waterspout risk, too… Oh, August! pic.twitter.com/ILPwNhimC7
— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) August 11, 2025
A new tropical storm named Erin appears poised to become the Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2025 as it tracks over open water this week. Eventual direct Cape Fear impacts from Erin seem unlikely for now; your First Alert Weather Team will necessarily watch the situation closely. In any case, an uptick in rip current risk is likely by the 20th.
“Turn, baby, turn” may be the most appropriate rallying cry for Erin! Erin will almost certainly become the Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2025; the National Hurricane Center’s even going so far as explicitly forecasting it to become a major hurricane within its first cone. pic.twitter.com/HtlKrcIZkA
— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) August 11, 2025
Regardless of how spicy the tropics get, local temperatures will likely develop a bit more zip in the week ahead. After starting mainly in the lower 80s, expect daily highs to loft to the upper 80s and lower 90s for days like Thursday and Friday. Amid rainclouds, Wilmington has not officially registered a high in the 90s since August 1…