Thats not far from that mark. Back to 51 by 6 p. M. It will overall be cooler and calmer for that evening drive home especially compared to where we were yesterday at 6 00 in the evening. More on your forecast and the weekend ahead in just a little bit but lets check in with traffic this morning. I440 and lasiter mill road you can see cars cruising along at a fine speed this morning. And an update for you coming in from the apex area this road has been closed since last night. So it is storm related, again downed power line on penny road. It is closed between 1010 and killed air farm roads. Ill have another check on traffic and weather in about ten minutes. Back to you. Breaking news for some of you parents and teachers out morning that two schools in wayne county will operate on a threehour delay. The list includes spring creek middle and high schools, the reason a power outage caused by yesterdays storms. And today representatives from the National Weather service will be here in our
The heaviest rain at least just passed through fuquay varina. Dont be surprised if you hear some of the wind out there, gusts up to or even above 40 Miles Per Hour likely as the line moves in. It just passed through fayetteville and as it did it left a 58mile per hour wind gust. So this is all part of a cold front continuing to push through the area of once it clears the area we dry out today. So we will see at least a little bit of sunshine likely by this afternoon. Its warm, 57 degrees in raleigh, its 54 in durham, 56 is our current temperature in fayetteville. If you remember this time yesterday we were dealing with temperatures in the 20s. So were about 30 degrees warmer than that. The temperatures actually warmed up all night. We had a wind gust of 32 Miles Per Hour in raleigh, 35mile per hour in dunn. So the winds howling. Weve got that heavy rain and that may cause some issues just for the next few hours here before we start to so expect some heavy rain by 8 00, 59 degrees our H
Keep in mind if you are going to have for lunch there are dangerous conditions with strong wind gusts. Isolated tornadoes, the storm threat right over us at 3 00 pm. The 70 our afternoon high and back to 66. Rain to taper off at 6 00 pm. More on this forecast in a little bit. Look at the traffic. This is i 504 at 6 forks road, a foggy site. Seeing some rain falling. That will slow you down. We had two accidents in the raleigh area. The first on trent 8 your capital blvd. And another one in downtown raleigh near the intersection of city farm road. Be on the alert there and not many cars out to not causing a lot of delays. Extract check in 20 minutes. Team coverage of the sprat. Threat. Reporter a lot of School Districts keeping an eye on the roads and we are in Chatham County and one of the districts really keeping an eye on things and they say there is potential they may call school out early. However you can see they are starting at the buses. For right now they have things starting o
The good news is the Severe Weather threat is over, but yes this is the biggest Severe Weather outbreak we have had since april 2011. A year ago we had snow on the ground, we can half a half ago we had snow and sleet. But tonight the radar is dry. Remember this started as heavy rain before the sun came up, and then things really got cooking this afternoon. The National Weather service here in raleigh, issued 21 Tornado Warnings today for central North Carolina. All of last year, they issued five. An incredible outbreak today. That is tonight, it has cleared out, but more changes are on the way tomorrow. As for tonight, in the overnight hours, look at our current wind gusts it is still a windy evening, and these winds will not be a strong as we headed to the overnight hours but it is to want to be breezy, including when you head out the door tomorrow morning. The warm front that moved way up there to the north. Now we wait on a cold front that will move through and drop our temperatures
Still slick in some places. The bridges will be tricky in many start until we get to mid afternoon and temperatures warm up considerably. Here are 12 31, lets take a look at the live commute map. Accident still in the clearing stages around the triangle. Thankfully, we are not seeing many affecting major routes at this point. This definitely is a lot better than we saw just about an hour and a half ago. Lets take a look at some of the cameras along the way, starting off in cary, us have 1 approaching tryon road and 64, next and on the right shoulder, but traffic is flowing freely. You can see how by traffic is, very good news. Heavy traffic on 40 eastbound leaving raleigh, heading through garner toward the clayton bypass. An accident on the right shoulder. We have the right lane reopened, that is good news. But still, very slow as people had away from 70 business town toward the clayton bypass. I want to see this secondary road. We have been watching this when that big burst of heavy s