A weak cold front will move slowly east across North Carolina today then move off the Coast tonight and dissipate. Numerous showers and thunderstorms this morning east of highway 17 will become scattered this afternoon and end this evening. Weak high pressure will be over the area Friday limiting any precipitation to an isolated sea breeze thunderstorm. Atlantic high pressure will circulate a southerly flow of moist and increasingly unstable air into eastern North Carolina Saturday. Amplification of the persistent eastern upper trough will allow another cold front to sag southeast into eastern North Carolina Sunday and Monday. De amplification of the upper trough Tuesday and Wednesday will signal the return of hot temperatures and afternoon/evening thunderstorms. ...See Full Discussion
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