A moderate to severe drought continues across eastern North Carolina.

A heat wave will grip eastern North Carolina through Wednesday.

The long dry spell appears to be over as typical summer thunderstorms arrive.

The weather pattern will produce more showers and thunderstorms through the end of the week.

Arlene was named as the first tropical storm of the season on Tuesday.

Early week showers and thunderstorms will be replaced with dry and hot conditions on July 4 Weekend.

A weather pattern shift will bring a better chance for showers across eastern North Carolina over the next week to 10 days.

Moderate to severe drought conditions will continue across eastern North Carolina this week.

A change in the weather pattern will bring a better chance for showers across eastern North Carolina late in the week.

Weather conditions across the globe suggest another active tropical season.

It has been a dry and hot period since the beginning of May.

Sunny and hot conditions have intensified the drought across eastern North Carolina.

There will be lots of sunshine and heat across eastern North Carolina this week.

It appears that a heat wave will develop across eastern North Carolina over the next two weeks.

It looks like an average summer for temperatures and rainfall across eastern North Carolina.

A surge of heat will be heading for eastern North Carolina this weekend into early next week.

Eastern North Carolina will turn from dry and mild to warm and wet over the weekend.

The weather pattern will remain quiet across eastern North Carolina this week.

No major outbreaks of severe weather are expected over the Southeast for the remainder of the week.

Temperatures and rainfall should average near normal across the Southeast during the upcoming summer.

Severe weather across eastern North Carolina is more likely to happen in spring than any other time of the year.

Easter is later than usual this year and odds favor warm weather.

The tropical season forecast suggests an active season for storms across the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast.

It was the coolest March across the world in more than a decade.

A strong cold front Tuesday will remind us that severe weather season is underway in eastern North Carolina.