A rainy start to the weekend should be followed by more than a week of hot and mostly dry weather, before a potential shift back to a cooler and wetter pattern by the end of August. The latest monthly outlook is shown below, and is also available in PDF format and on our Short-Range Outlooks page.
![The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for August 5 to September 1, 2021](https://climate.ncsu.edu/fire/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/SROutlook_2021Aug-1024x791.png)