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Doesn't feel like the first day of fall

ABLE TO RUN OFF INTO NEARBY WOODLANDS. >> OUTSIDE A LIVE SHOT FROM OUR CAMERA FROM ON TOP OF THE HILTON. IT'S NICE AND COOL. NO, IT'S NOT. LOOK AT IN. 89 DEGREES. WEST-SOUTHWEST WIND VERY LIGHT. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. 29% HUMIDITY. SO AT LEAST THE HUMIDITY IS DOWN WHICH IS NORMALLY WHAT WE WOULD SEE IN THE AUTUMN MONTHS. OFFICIALLY NOT THE TEMPERATURE. 86 DEGREES IN ASHEVILLE BUT IT FEELS… → Read More

Next storm in the tropics threatens battered Bahamas, could impact Carolinas, John says

Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 promises heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds → Read More

Videocast: Potential Tropical Cyclone #9

Potential Tropical Cyclone #Nine is expected to become a tropical storm and bring heavy rain and tropical storm-force winds to portions of the northwest Bahamas... → Read More

Hot Tuesday

JOHN WELL, WHAT A WAY TO START A NEW WEEK, ON THE HOT SIDE TO SAY THE LEAST. WAY ABOVE AVERAGE. WE ARE A GOOD 10 TO 15 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE, WE ARE IN THE 90’S NOW. I LIVE SHOT FROM THE CAMERA ON TOP OF THE GREENVILLE HILTON. TRAFFIC FLOWING ALONG NICELY, YOUR MINIATURE TRAFFIC OR, PLENTY OF SUNSHINE, FEELS A 96 DEGREES AND AN EAST SOUTHEAST WIND IT’S VERY LIGHT. SUNSHINE, NO WIND, HUMIDITY AT… → Read More

Dorian Update: 10 pm

FIERCE WINDS AS WELL. >> STILL 100 MILE POWER -- PER HOUR SUSTAINED WINDS. IT IS NOT VERY FAR. THEY STILL HAVE STRONG WINDS GUSTIN TO 24 MILES PER HOUR. IT IS MOVIN EASTBOUND AND THIS IS A TORNADO WATCH THAT CONTINUES TOUCHIG DOWN, ESPECIALLY EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY. THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES WITH THE RAIN BANDS. WE ALSO HAD A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN EARLIER. AS YOU ZOOM IN, YOU CAN SEE… → Read More

Dorian Update: 2 am

>> GOOD MORNING, KEEPING YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN, STILL A MAJOR HURRICANE. ALMOST 2:08 IN THE MORNING ON THURSDAY AND RIGHT NOW, THESE RAIN BANDS ARE POUNDING THE COASTLINE OF GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA BUT MAINLY SOUTH CAROLINA. ALREADY GETTING SOME INCREDIBLE WIND GUSTS OF 60 MILES PER HOUR ALONG THE BEACHES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN PARTICULAR AROUND FOLLY… → Read More

Dorian Update: 1 am

UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN. IT IS NOW 1:00 IN THE MORNING ON THURSDAY. IT IS RAGGED ON THE WINDS -- WEST SIDE. STILL PRODUCING EXTREMELY NASTY WEATHER ALONG THE GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA COAST RIGHT NOW. COUPLE FORCE WIND ON THE BEACHES RIGHT NOW. THE WIND IS GOING TO GET STRONGER. RAIN BANDS CONTINUE TO COME IN. CHARLESTON, THE -- VERY HEAVY RAIN RIGHT NOW. IOWA PALMS WITH A WIND OF 60 MILES… → Read More

Dorian Update: 12 am

ESCAPING YOU UPDATE -- UPDATED. IT IS MIDNIGHT HEADING INTO THURSDAY AND DORIAN JUST RE-INTENSIFIED AND BACK TO A MAJOR HURRICANE. IT IS A CATEGORY 3 WITH 150 -- 115 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. IT IS GETTING BETTER ORGANIZED AND GETTING STRONGER AND SOME OF THESE HEAVY RAIN BANDS ARE STARTING TO COME ONSHORE AS YOU CAN SEE. ESPECIALLY THROUGH TRUST AND ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO HILTON HEAD. HILTON HEAD HAD… → Read More

Dorian Update: 2 am

THAT EVERYTHING IS AUTHENTIC AND I THE OTHER THING IS GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. JOHN CESSARICH ARE THE WEATHER CENTER. KEEP YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN STILL A VERY WELL ORGANIZED AND BECOMING A LARGER HURRICANE. LOOK AT THESE RAIN BANDS COMING IN JUST REALLY HAMMERING CAPE CANAVERAL MELBOURNE DAYTONA BEACH EVEN SOME HEAVY RAIN BANDS MOVING THROUGH ORLANDO WOULD BE SURPRISED TO SEE GUSTS TO 40… → Read More

Dorian Update: 1 am

>> AND WILL COME TO KEEP YOU UPDATED 1:00 IN THE MORNING ON WEDNESDAY AND THERE IS THE CIRCULATION OF DORIAN, STILL A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE, BUT LOOK AT THESE RAIN BANDS, STILL COMING IN. ESPECIALLY THE ONE THAT WENT THROUGH DAYTONA BEACH AND ORLANDO. SOME OF THESE RAIN SHOWERS WILL BE HEAVY RAIN BUT ALSO GET GUSTS CLOSE TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE WITH THESE RAIN BANDS BUT MOST OF THE HEAVY… → Read More

Dorian Update: 12am

JON: HI, EVERYONE. KEEP YOU UPDATED. TOP OF THE HOUR, IT’S MIDNIGHT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS HURRICANE DORIAN. THE BEGINNING OF THE EYE IS EXPANDING, SO IT’S MUCH LARGER, ALMOST 30, 35 MILES WIDE AT LEAST. IT IS 95 MILES AWAY FROM CAPE CANAVERAL. THESE HEAVY RAIN BANDS ALL EVENING LONG HAVE COME THROUGH DAYTONA BEACH AND ORLANDO WITH TROPICAL STORM FORCE WIND GUSTS. SOME OF THESE RAIN BANDS CAN COME… → Read More

Dorian Update: 11 pm

JOHN: KEEPING YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN. CATEGORY 2. 108 MILE-PER-HOUR SUSTAINED WIND. LOOK AT ALL THIS RAIN COMING INTO EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. MELBOURNE GETTING HAMMERED WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND IT’S ABOUT 100 MILES EAST OF MELBOURNE. CHRIS WILL HAVE THE LATEST TONIGHT AT 11:00. → Read More

Dorian Update: 8 pm

>> I WANT TO KEEP YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN. CATEGORY 2. WHEN SUSTAINED 110 MILES AN HOUR, GUSTING TO 130. IT IS SLOWLY MOVING AT 6 MILES AN HOUR TO THE NORTHWEST. HEAVIER RAIN BANDS HEADING EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. IT IS MOVING NORTHBOUND AND WILL ARRIVE TOMORROW NIGHT AND THURSDAY LONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA → Read More

Dorian Update: 3pm Forecast

LANDFALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA. >> AND THAT IS VERY BAD NEWS. WE COULD HAVE LANDFALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. RIGHT NOW IT IS A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE, ONLY ABOUT 100 MILES AWAY FROM THE COAST OF FLORIDA. FLORIDA IS STILL GETTING BATTERED WITH A VERY HIGH SURF WAVES. RAIN BANDS ARE COMING IN WITH A BRIEF TROPICAL STORM FORCE GUSTS BUT THAT IS ABOUT IT. FLORIDA WILL BE IN GOOD SHAPE BECAUSE… → Read More

Dorian Update: 11 pm

>> WE’RE HERE AT THE WEATHER CENTER KEEP YOU UPDATED ON AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL IT DANGEROUS, GETTING BIGGER. HURRICANE DORIAN, GUSTS TO 180. THE BIG PROBLEM, IT IS STILL STATIONARY, ABOUT 25 MILES TO THE NORTH OF FREEPORT. SOME → Read More

Dorian Update: 10 pm

EVERYONE JOHN CESSARICH ALONG WITH CHRIS JUSTUS HERE IN THE WEATHER CENTER KEEPING YOU UPDATED ON AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL AND DANGEROUS. HURRICANE DORIAN ABOUT 25 MILE AT SPIN HERE IN THE ISLANDS. IT’S NOT MOVING ANYWHERE. THIS IS JUST HORRIBLE NEWS DEVASTATION AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THESE HEAVY RAIN BANDS CONTINUE TO COME ON ON SHORE ALONG THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA STILL A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE A… → Read More

Dorian Update: 8 pm

CHRIS: KEEPING YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIANJ -- JOHN: KEEPING YOU UPDATED ON HURRICANE DORIAN, IT IS GETTING LARGER GEOGRAPHICALLY. THE ADVISORY FROM THE HURRICANE CENTER CAME IN, IT IS DOWN TO 140, IT WAS 100 45. IT IS STATIONARY, NOT MOVING. WATCHE → Read More

John's Complete Forecast

BEING NICE. JOHN: LIVE SUPER DOPPLER 4 HD SHOWING RAIN SHOWERS MOVING AWAY FROM US WITH ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS FAIRLY LIGHT. SOME SPRINKLES AND SOME DRIZZLE ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE AS THE CLOUDS COME LOWER. WEDGED IN WITH THESE TEMPERATURES, LIGHT SHOWERS AROUND GREENVILLE, A NORTH WIND AT EIGHT MILES PER HOUR. THIS IS INCREDIBLE, THE PAST WEEKEND WAS SO NICE, YESTERDAY WAS WARMER, TODAY 68… → Read More

Tropical air mass raises chance of scattered, heavy thunderstorms, John says

Some parts of the Upstate and Western North Carolina could be in for a repeat of Thursday's thunderstorms, according to WYFF New 4 Cheif Meteorologist John Cessarich said Friday. → Read More

Scattered showers, heavy storms

♪ JOHN LIVE SUPER DOPPLER 4 HD SHOWING POP-UP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING SCATTERED, ALMOST NUMEROUS. THAT WILL BE THE CASE THIS EVENING. SOME OF THIS WILL STAY DRY, SOME OF US WAS HAVE -- WILL HAVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. WE WILL MONITOR THEM CLOSELY FOR YOU IN CASE THE WEATHER SERVICE DECIDES TO PUT OUT A WARNING. SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF HICKORY. SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER BRYSON… → Read More