Happy fall, y’all! Ironically, the first day of the season known for cool, crisp days started out hot and humid – the Queen City cracked 90° for the first time in three weeks on this Sunday afternoon. While the next few days won’t be quite as warm, the heat and humidity do their best to stick around. Expect highs in the Metro to reach mid-80s through midweek as pop-up isolated-to-scattered storms get going in the afternoons and evenings ahead. Temperatures will take a dive by the end of the week as a potential tropical system heads our way from the Gulf. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring a budding area of low pressure as it slowly drifts northward in the western Caribbean. The NHC is giving this system an 80% chance of becoming a named storm over the next seven days as it approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Medium-range models, namely the American, have projected this storm to rapidly intensify as it moves into the Gulf for nearly a week now. We’ll want to watch this system carefully – there’s a lot of disagreement in terms of where it will head, but the Carolinas could get some intense wind and tropical moisture later this week into next weekend. Stay tuned. Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Mild and muggy. Low: 70°. Wind: NE 5-10. Monday: Mostly cloudy early. Variable clouds with a stray storm later. High: 84°. Wind: SE 5-10. Monday Night: Isolated storms. Remaining mild. Low: 70°. Wind: Light. Tuesday: Variable clouds with scattered storms later in the day. High: 84°. Wind: S 5-10.