WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Offshore low pressure officially brought a top gust of 47 mph and 2.45 inches of rain to Wilmington over the weekend. Most of the Cape Fear Region had similar tallies of one to four inches; parts of Columbus County netted over six. High pressure will bring drier skies and more settled breezes and tides to your First Alert Forecast in the week ahead.
Very close to being finished with this rainy nor’easter… pic.twitter.com/Pmej9KHgJG
— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) October 13, 2025
This week’s temperatures will explore many autumn ranges with lower 70s Monday and Tuesday, upper 50s Monday night, a chilly extreme in the upper 40s Thursday night, and a toasty limit of lower 80s for the weekend afternoons.
In the tropics, a disturbance called Invest 97-L turned into Tropical Storm Lorenzo Monday morning. Lorenzo is over the open eastern Atlantic and, as it’s likely to stay that way, poses no definable threat to North America…