Yesterday's and today's (Sunday's) afternoon highs in the low 90s are just a foretaste of what's on the near horizon. Before that, however, a brief cooling trend is on the way.
The Storm Prediction Center has much of eastern Virginia - including Mecklenburg County - under a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) for severe weather today. A cold front which helped fire up numerous severe storms across Maryland and Pennsylvania yesterday will sag southward as today progresses. The main threat is from damaging winds, but locally storms look to be few and far between. What little activity may occur isn't expected until near sunset.
Behind that boundary winds will shift around out of the east, a cooler wind direction. Monday afternoon's high temperature could even be a few degrees lower than the current forecast in the mid-80s. That largely depends on the amount of cloud cover, since the strong June sunshine coupled with the very dry ground can overpower cooling trends. Tuesday's temperatures will also top out in the 80s under mostly sunny skies.
Then the heat returns, with the mid- and even upper 90s on tap later this week. This hazards map from the National Weather Service shows the East Coast baking by next weekend:
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