Multiple Emmy Award winner for Weather Broadcasts. Also, have been voted as Charlotte's Best by various publications around Charlotte. American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval. But the biggest honor for me happens every day when someone turns on WBTV and gives me a chance to inform them about upcoming weather. Thank you for that opportunity. I'll do my best never to let you down!!
Once the rain departs during the evening from all 22 counties that we cover, it may well be the last drop of rain you see until the middle of next week.
With high temperatures locked into the mid 90s for the foreseeable future and high humidity front and center as well, this will produce and maintain heat index values around 100° for the next week.
Our biggest concern is a weak cold front approaching from the northwest on Thursday and I expect it to stir up some strong thunderstorms which will march across our viewing area during the afternoon hours.
After a dramatically cooler day on Tuesday where temperatures plummeted from the mid 90s on Monday into the low 80s Tuesday, everyone knows it can’t last too long, so I hope you took advantage!
To nobody’s surprise, scattered thunderstorms popped up again across our region and this same pattern will govern the weather for Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
Don’t expect any letup over the weekend either as hot unstable air will continue to ignite showers and storms during the prime heating periods of the days.
Thunderstorms will remain widely scattered through the day, but that will change on Thursday, July 4th as thunderstorms become more likely during the afternoon and early evening.
If anything the next few days may be hotter with forecast highs in the mid 90s, but as thunderstorms increase for the second half of the week, temperatures will fall back somewhat.
What started on Thursday will last through at least next Thursday (Independence Day) as temperatures will steadily climb through the low 90s, eventually into the mid 90s by next week.
For the second time in 48 hours, a well organized line of intense thunderstorms rolled across the WBTV region sparing none of our 22 counties Monday afternoon and evening.
Already over an inch of rain has fallen across most of the Charlotte/Mecklenburg area with other areas west of Charlotte toward the foothills picking up two or more inches of rain.
Waves of rain and embedded storms begin to arrive throughout the second half of the day Friday, lasting for the most part throughout all of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Disruptive showers and storms continue to increase over the central sections of the country and they are heading our way with the first wave of rain with embedded thunderstorms showing up tomorrow.
After another fine June day, we’ll continue the warm and dry pattern into the first half of the upcoming week. But for those of you looking for rain, your day is coming and possibly in a big way.
After a hectic day of severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings across the region, the weekend should see far less turbulent weather and best of all temperatures returning to seasonal levels with highs staying below 90 degrees for the foreseeable future.
The humidity returned Thursday and the heat roared back on Friday as highs surged into the 90s. Official high on Friday was 93° with the record high 95° set in 1939.
The first sign of our impending heat wave arrived on Thursday with the sudden increase in humidity. In fact, dewpoints hit 70 for the first time this year which is considered to be entering a Tropical Airmass category. Now comes the high heat!
