{"id":886,"date":"2026-08-27T08:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:13:48","slug":"short-range-outlook-for-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/short-range-outlook-for-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Range Outlook for September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August should end with a round of rain through Saturday, but September looks hot and dry early on, with uncertainty about the overall weather pattern emerging by mid-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The graphic below summarizes the latest four-week outlook. It&#8217;s also available for <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download as a PDF<\/a> and on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlooks archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for August 27 to September 23, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>August should end with a round of rain through Saturday, but September looks hot and dry early on, with uncertainty about the overall weather pattern emerging by mid-month.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The graphic below summarizes the latest four-week outlook. It's also available for <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download as a PDF<\/a> and on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlooks archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":883,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/SROutlook_2026Sep-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for August 27 to September 23, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-883\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August should end with a round of rain through Saturday, but September looks hot and dry early on, with uncertainty about the overall weather pattern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":883,"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-886","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\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}