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And im stefan chase. Several School Systems in our viewing area remain closed again today because of the impact from Hurricane Matthew. Cumberland, halifax, harnett, moore, nash, rocky mount all closed today. And lee county is on a onehour delay. We have more School Closings on our website wncn. Com. For right now lets go straight to Storm Team Meteorologist Alyssa Corfont. Good morning to you at mentioned are still under Flood Warnings as we progress throughout this morning. Flooded roads and rivers continue, full creeks and streams, even clogged storm drains. We have a number of road closured because of high water and storm damage from this past weekend. Well continue to watch these. They continue through 10 30 this evening if not extended by the National Weather service. Lets go ahead and take a look at our satellite and radar composite. Not a lot going on locally. Likely in the 40s, and thats where well start around 8 a. M. , 48, 65 at lunchtime, 72 our high. Normal is close to 74.
Team meteorologist Alyssa Corfont who has your forecast. Good morning guys, and good morning at home as well. Because of all of those flooded roads and because some rivers are still rising today, were still looking at Flood Warnings up and down 95 along the sandhills as well. We are talking about wayne county in particular right around the goldsboro area. The neuse river is expected to crest today. Its happening pretty much as we speak, and then well be falling, but kinston river, the neuse river is not expected to crest unt feet. Near the Cape Fear River in fayetteville falling below flood stage by tomorrow morning. So certainly a light at the end of the tunnel for some of you, water though still rising along the tar river as well. Well get to the latest on that in a moment. Lets talk about your satellite and radar composite. We are looking at pretty clear skies as we start off our wednesday morning, which is great news for us as all that water continues to be very high and dangerous.
Karen rogers is here along with matt pelman. Good morning. Weve got partly cloudy skies as we look at this satellite and radar imagery match. We can see a few clouds up above. Were watching these showers off to the north and west but i saw these falling apart on storm tracker6 live double scan. So if youre up near scranton and hazelton, a shower near mount pocono but in dissipated. You see thats heading up to the north and east. Maybe in your northwest suburbs you can get a bit of an Early Morning sprinkle. Other than that much of the daytime is going to be dry. 62 in quakertown, 68 saint davids, 70 chester, 71 in center city. Its another summer like day. Were really going to warm up today. 71 degrees in hammonton and 71 degrees in dover, delaware. As you look at the day ahead its going to be warm. Its going to be breezy. Were going to see winds up to about 20 miles an hour at times much like yesterday but we are watching for a spotty shower or thunderstorm late in the day. Not everybo