Soaring temps to reach near-record highs in North Carolina. How hot could it get?
Temperatures are expected to soar in North Carolina, nearing record levels this week.
So, how hot could it get? Highs in the 70s are forecast in the mountains and on the Outer Banks, while other parts of the state could see temperatures in the mid-80s.
Warmer weather is expected after many places saw above-normal temperatures on Monday, Feb. 21. The trend is expected to continue through the week.
“Inland temps in the 80s (on Wednesday and Thursday) will likely break daily records and could even approach all-time February records that were set just last year,” the National Weather Service’s Wilmington office wrote on Twitter.
For example, Wilmington is forecast to have a high of 80 degrees on Thursday. Earlier in the week, there was a 67% chance the city would break the record of 82 degrees, which was set Feb. 23, 2022.
Wilmington’s forecasted high temperatures are above the 62-degree normal for this time of year and close to 85 degrees, the all-time record for all of February, data shows.
Here’s what the National Weather Service expects in other parts of the state on Thursday, which is forecast to be the hottest day of the week:
- Forecast high: 72
- Daily record high: 75 (from 1975)
- Normal high temperature: 58
- February record: 76 (from 2017)
- Forecast high: 86
- Daily record high: 81 (from 1980)
- Normal high temperature: 60
- February record: 88 (from 1962)
- Forecast high: 85
- Daily record high: 80 (from 2018)
- Normal high temperature: 60
- February record: 85 (from 1930)
Triangle (Raleigh-Durham International Airport):
- Forecast high: 84
- Daily record high: 79 (from 1980)
- Normal high temperature: 58
- February record: 84 (from 1977)
- Forecast high: 82
- Daily record high: 74 (from 2017)
- Normal high temperature: 55
- February record: 81 (from three different years)
- Forecast high: 83
- Daily record high: 79 (from 2018)
- Normal high temperature: 59
- February record: 82 (from 2018)
- Forecast high: 78
- Daily record high: 76 (from 1982)
- Normal high temperature: 55
- February record: 80 (from 1932)
This story was originally published February 21, 2023 at 10:58 AM.
