First Alert Forecast: humid, unsettled now… hot, dry soon… Dolly chugs west

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Your First Alert Forecast opens with fairly healthy chances for locally heavy showers and storms of 50 to 60% Friday and Saturday, 30% Saturday night, and 40% Sunday. Temps will hold in the 70s and 80s amid sticky late summer breezes.

Your First Alert Weather Team continues to expect a hot high pressure cell to sprawl over the Cape Fear next week. With it: expect highs and feels likes to charge into the 90s and 100s, respectively. A sweltering start to September and an ironic open to meteorological fall…

In the tropics… Tropical Storm Dolly will continue to battle dry air and harsh shear as it heads for the Caribbean islands this weekend, where the National Hurricane Center officially progs it to fall apart. Your First Alert Weather Team will monitor Dolly in any case…

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