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If you can call 90 degrees i think it is just hard to tell. I had to take my son to soccer and gosh, it was just brutal out there. We do have some showers this morning. Most of mecklenburg county, virginia seeing a few showers. That stretches down into vance and warren counties. Not quite over to Roanoke Rapids but it is lily there in about 45 minutes. A tiny little band getting ready to move into orange county. Well be watching that over the next couple of hours as we see here on fox 50. 76 in cary and 75 in wake forest. Town by town, 75 in rocky mount. It is warm, muggy when you step out the door. That will be the case all weekend. Next week, especially by tuesday morning, you will notice a real difference. 70s, very sticky. Well see a high of 90 this afternoon. A good chance of scattered thunderstorms. That will help to hold our temperatures down a little closer to normal through the weekend but some of the storms could produce ....
Sloane heffernan. We begin with meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner with the latest on the storms intensity and track. Well get the next update coming up at the top of the 8 00 hour. Most of of the rain is on the northern side of center. While the center may not arrive until tonight, we are already feeling the effects. You south. The skycam in fayetteville looks very wet there. We have this little cell that has developed south and west of sanford. The radar estimates are up to 2 inches already. We are going to have some heavy rain that stick around here and ease hi starts to really pile up some rainfall totals in the aint gauges. If you are traveling to sanford on highway 1, you will run into that particular cell. We do have more rain down to for us today. Winds at 70 Miles Per Hour with hermine moving northeast at 14 miles per this just tracks the center of circulation and do ....
Schools are closed today. Moore county schools will be delayed two hours. You can see a complete list scrolling at the bottom of your screen or any time on wral. Com. At loaf we didnt get another round of really, really bad, bad weather overnight. We appreciate a little bit of dry weather because this festival is this weekend. Wide open Bluegrass Festival. It is a big deal with thousands of fans gathered. Lets go to iz who is one of the biggest bluegrass fans i know. Thats right. Im excited to be here in downtown raleigh for the Bluegrass Festival. But there are a lot of things going on here. We have a bunch of fans here getting ready. We stepped away from the stage because the earls of lester are doing a sound check right now. They are getting ready for the festival. Lets talk about the weather. Was going on now that the sun is up. Wave been here since about 5 charle ....
We are already seeing some rain and some of the heftiest rain is nu South Carolina right now. That . . Is starting t . To push into our area. Well have the greatest impacts starting from now into the afternoon. The rain will get heavier and will likely taper off by tomorrow morning as the center of circul . 9 9 . Actually approaches. We just in the last literally seconds got the latest information in from the National Hurricane center because at last check, the storm had winds at 70 Miles Per Hour. That was advisory. They do an intermediate advisory and the wind are down to 60 Miles Per Hour. It is moving northeast at 14. It continues along at the same speed. The wind speeds are down about 10 Miles Per Hour ....
Convention center. It was still good but just something about having it outside. If you are coming to the Bluegrass Festival today, wear your shorts and tshirts. It is really warm and muggy. Yesterday, we had very heavy rain at this time and down in that same area, we have a storm that has developed. Well zoom in down south. You can see the storm, when we talked about it 20 minute or so ago, it was moving across lightning with this. This is an area that saw devastating flooding yesterday. Dont be too concerned about this bringing us any more flooding. There are still some flash flood warnings down in that area. We have ahay cell move through roxboro. That moved up into virginia for the most part. Still lifting out of Person County right now. This is what well see all through the morning, just these isolated cells popping up with brief heavy rain. Morning. It is 73 in downt ....