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Today is a First Alert Weather Day. The overnight heavy rain has moved out, but there may still be a few lingering late-day thunderstorms that fire up, mainly from Charlotte on north. With some midday sunshine breaking the clouds, afternoon readings will rebound to the upper 70s. Dry and cooler tonight, temperatures will slide back to the low to mid 50s overnight. Saturday will be dry and much warmer with afternoon readings up close to 80°. By far, it will be the better day of the weekend for an

Mostly sunny skies are back in the forecast today with afternoon temperatures topping out in the low to mid 80s. Charlotte will challenge the record of 84° last set in 1996. A late-day shower will be possible in the mountains today, where highs will be in the cooler 60s. Clouds will push in from the west tonight, there may be stray shower closer to Charlotte with lows in the lower 50s. As we’ve been highlighting in our forecast for the better part of the last week, the coldest air of the fall se