{"id":879,"date":"2026-07-30T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/?p=879"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:33:26","slug":"short-range-outlook-for-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/short-range-outlook-for-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Range Outlook for August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July will wrap up with warm and sunny weather, while August should start with another rain event as a cold front moves in this weekend. The rest of the month shows mostly above-normal temperatures but with at least average rain chances possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graphic below shows the latest outlook for the next four weeks. Also view it on our outlook archive<\/a> or download it as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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July will wrap up with warm and sunny weather, while August should start with another rain event as a cold front moves in this weekend. The rest of the month shows mostly above-normal temperatures but with at least average rain chances possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graphic below shows the latest outlook for the next four weeks. Also view it on our outlook archive<\/a> or download it as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July will wrap up with warm and sunny weather, while August should start with another rain event as a cold front moves in this weekend….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlooks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}