Grant Skinner

It's Opening Day for Major League Baseball! We have a double header on WRAL, so you won't want to miss those games. Let's check out the forecast across the country including a closer look at the games on WRAL, and we'll also look ahead to the Durham Bulls opening night.

A shift to an El Niño pattern will likely have the biggest impact on how much tropical activity we have this season. Let's dive into the forecast from Colorado State University (CSU) and break down how El Niño will affect the tropics.

With water use restrictions now in place for the city of Raleigh and little rain in sight, the drought conditions across our area have been top of mind. Let's look at how much rain we would need within the next month to end our drought and our chances of the drought ending.

While there are small rain chances through Sunday, no significant rain is expected short term. Let's look ahead to the end of April to see if we'll finally have better chances for rain.

When we think about the worsening drought across our area, we typically think about the fact that we have not had much rain. It's not just precipitation, though, that determines if we are in a drought. Let's dive into how the drought monitor is created and why it takes so many different moving pieces.

With ongoing wildfires in Georgia, smoke has been spreading across much of the southeast. We had an air quality alert Thursday for part of our area, but let's look at what effects we will see for Friday and into the first half of the weekend.

For most of the month of April, we did not have a whole lot of rain, so severe weather was limited as well. A cold front on Wednesday, though, brought multiple stronger storms, and we had multiple storm reports. Let's look at those reports and how the storms evolved as they moved through the area.

An area of low pressure is expected to develop just offshore this weekend along a front. Just small changes, though, with the track of that low pressure system will mean changes with how much rain parts of our area see. Let's look at what possible paths we could see and what that means for us.

While we have been talking about the ongoing drought quite a bit recently, our rainfall deficit is something we have been monitoring since the end of summer last year. Let's look at the numbers for a handful of cities across the state and break down the pattern that caused this.

We finally have a good stretch of rainy days in the forecast! While the rain won't break our drought, it will certainly be beneficial. Let's look back at the last time we had this many rainy days in a row, and we'll look at how much rain we could see.