First Alert Forecast: a stir in the tropics, dry heat building at home [Video]

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – A piece of low pressure drenching Florida has a small chance to develop tropically east of the Carolinas between Wednesday and the weekend. For now, strong jet stream winds are holding the system back. Whether it develops or not, a dominant high pressure ridge will hold its Cape Fear impacts to minimal or nonexistent. Take this feature as a sign of the season!… and a natural invitation to come back to your comprehensive preparedness guide at WECT.com/hurricane.

Thanks to that same high pressure ridge, your First Alert Forecast is toasty through Father’s Day weekend. Shower and storm chances will hover in the minimal 10 to 20% range most days, and ample sunshine will cook afternoon temperatures to the upper 80s and lower 90s with regularity. While this pattern isn’t necessary going to spawn a drought, it has the earmarks of one that can – especially given the …