Hot and humid...

It is a warm, hazy, and fairly humid day today. Check out the link below. The numbers in red are the temperatures and the numbers in green are the dewpoints. The wind barbs show the direction the wind is coming from...

http://weather.cod.edu/wx/public/sfc/states/nc.sfc.gif

Sure looks like upper 80s for most today, and with relatively warm air aloft, we should not see any afternoon showers or storms develop. In fact, I would not be surprised if some folks saw 90 degrees.

It is also beginning to look more and more like a whole lot of the area could see 90 tomorrow. I officially went 89 degrees for a Saturday high in my forecast, but some of the newer computer model data has come in a bit warmer.

Also, the computer models continue to struggle with figuring out when there will be rain chances next week. The 12z GFS (one of the American computer models you see linked on the right) indicates some lingering shower and storm chances for Monday as well. It is just going to take some time for us to nail down the forecast for next week.

Speaking of the 12z GFS....it bring the potential tropical system to the northern part of the Gulf side of the Florida peninsula Tuesday morning....full tropical post coming later this afternoon...