Good morning, North Carolina! Here's what you need to know today.

The National Hurricane Center has unveiled updates to the cone of uncertainty for the upcoming hurricane season, as well as refined other parameters. 
Thanks to positive feedback from the 2024 hurricane season, the cone of uncertainty graphic will now display inland watches and warnings to better communicate the wind risk away from the coast. 
The size of the track forecast cone will appear slightly smaller, about 3 to 5% in the Atlantic basin, compared to 2024. According to the NHC, “the cone represents the probable track of the center of a tropical cyclone."

Your Weather Planner

We’ll see hot weather Friday as parts of eastern North Carolina get up to 90 degrees for afternoon highs.

Expect partly cloudy to partly sunny skies Friday with highs in the 80s and 90s and a small chance for a few isolated showers and storms. Much like in recent days, there is a chance that storms could be strong to severe.

We'll get an isolated storm chance again Saturday, then we'll see a slight drop in temperatures from Sunday into early next week with partly cloudy skies.

Get the full forecast of areas around the state:
Charlotte | Triad | Triangle | Coastal | Mountains


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Around North Carolina

1. Headless dolphin found on N.C. island, officials offer $20,000 reward to find culprit

An 8-foot bottlenose dolphin that was reported stranded April 15 on Lea-Hutaff Island north of Wilmington was “intentionally mutilated” and decapitated between April 16 and April 18, investigators say. The beheading of the animal is a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which prohibits harassment, harming or feeding of wild dolphins.

2. 'We're in a crisis': N.C. lawmaker, advocates call for disability support in budget

Advocates for the disabled and a state lawmaker are seeking more money for a program that provides support for residents with intellectual and physical disabilities. A waitlist for North Carolina’s Innovations Waivers has almost 19,000 people on it, and it's growing.

3. Suspect wounded after trading fire with 2 troopers on I-85

Two North Carolina State Highway Patrol troopers got into a shootout with a 25-year-old man, who was a passenger in a vehicle. The shooting happened Thursday afternoon along Interstate 85 in Guilford County, authorities said.

Around The Nation

1. Supreme Court weighs whether to allow Trump's birthright citizenship order to go into effect

2. ‘Morally wrong and politically suicidal’: House GOP Medicaid cuts face bipartisan pushback

3. Putin spurns Zelenskyy meeting but lower-level Ukraine-Russia talks are still on

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