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The rainy streak will continue for most of central North Carolina in the coming week.
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“There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms every day through the next seven days, which will certainly help our chances at alleviating the drought,” said Tom Green, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Raleigh Office, during a Monday, Aug. 3, weather briefing.
The rain comes on the heels of a deadly supercell thunderstorm that knocked down trees, falling and killing one Wake County man, downed power lines and caused some flooding, last week.
In July, Raleigh got 12.16 inches of rain making it the second-wettest July on record, and more rain than the area got in the first half of 2026, according to the North Carolina State Climate Office.
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There is a level 1 out of 4, or marginal, risk for “excessive rain and flash flooding in central NC everywhere (Monday) and (Tuesday), and to the west of U.S. Highway 1 on Wednesday,” according to the media briefing.
Temperatures in Raleigh and Durham are forecasted to reach the upper 80s.
“While it’s premature to attribute this rain to the developing El Niño – this wasn’t the sort of jet stream-carried storm system from the south that we expect in that pattern – it may offer a preview of the sort of widespread soakings we’ll see more of later in the year, once El Niño and its atmospheric impacts have strengthened further,” said Corey Davis, meteorologist with the state climate office.
But, he warned, a dry August could undue some of the recent gains for the state’s drought.
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This story was originally published August 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM.