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Skip to contentWatch LiveNewsWeatherCape Fear GardeningInvestigateTrafficHealthCape Fear EatsSubmit Your PicturesFirst Alert SkycamsSky TrackerFirst Alert Weather Day FAQsWeather PicsFirst Alert Hurricane CenterShootin’ the BreezeFirst Alert Forecast: next gusty March front to pass Sunday nightUpdated: 3 hours agoWILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Weather Team continues to track the next front that will impact the Cape Fear Region in its approach Sunday afternoon and its passage Sunday night. This system has similar dynamics to one you may recall from Ash Wednesday, so the advice is the same: keep loose yard items stowed, remain in port, and stay alert for possible additional NWS severe storm bulletins with your WECT Weather App. Back on the 5th, the cold ocean limited the severe threat, and there’s room for optimism that this’ll happen again here. However, even if severe cells fail to materialize in a technical sense, this front will offer several disruptive elements including widespread showers, scattered downpours, spotty thunderstorms, frequent 40+ mph wind gusts, and isolated 55+ mph wind gusts.Read More...WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Weather Team continues to track the next front that will impact the Cape Fear Region in its approach Sunday afternoon and its passage Sunday night. This system has similar dynamics to one you may recall from Ash Wednesday, so the advice is the same: keep loose yard items stowed, remain in port, and stay alert for possible additional NWS severe storm bulletins with your WECT Weather App. Back on the 5th, the cold ocean limited the severe threat, and there’s room for optimism that this’ll happen again here. However, even if severe cells fail to materialize in a technical sense, this front will offer several disruptive elements including widespread showers, scattered downpours, spotty thunderstorms, frequent 40+ mph wind gusts, and isolated 55+ mph wind gusts.Read More...68TimeTempTempDescDescriptionPrecipPrecipitationDEWDew PointWndWind9 PM3/16Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormS 19 MPH10 PM3/16Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormS 16 MPH11 PM3/16Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormS 16 MPH12 AM3/17Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormSSW 14 MPH1 AM3/17Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormSSW 12 MPH2 AM3/17Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormSSW 11 MPH3 AM3/17Risk of a Gusty Shwr. or StormSSW 9 MPH4 AM3/17V. Clouds, Stray Leftover Shwr.SW 8 MPH5 AM3/17V. Clouds, Stray Leftover Shwr.WSW 6 MPH6 AM3/17V. Clouds, Stray Leftover Shwr.W 6 MPH7 AM3/17V. Clouds, Stray Leftover Shwr.W 6 MPH8 AM3/17V. Clouds, Stray Leftover Shwr.WNW 6 MPHExtended ForecastLocal TemperaturesWilmington AlmanacArea Beach ForecastLocal Tide TimesOffshore ForecastAllergy ForecastLocal Satellite/RadarCarolina Satellite/RadarSatellite

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -Your First Alert Forecast features ample sunshine and cool 50s through Friday. Saturday could sneak toward or into the 60s despite a period of rainfall. Rain odds will stay near 0% for Thursday and Friday then jump to 80% Saturday and 40% Sunday. Forecast confidence into next week continues to be solid for another incursion of very cold air on or after MLK Day, odds for snow or wintry precipitation are ticking up but there is still a lot of uncertainty. Beware of stock weather apps with hyperspecific winter weather solutions at this very long range. As always, your First Alert Weather Team will advise!Bitterly cold Arctic air will invade southeast NC next week. There is at least a chance of some snow and a wintry mix but as of now a wide range of outcomes is still possible. Stay with you WECT Weather Team as we fill in the details in the days ahead. #WECTwx #ILMwx pic.twitter.com/iyJZrgUKcV— Eric R. Davis WECT (@ericdavisWECT) January 16, 2025See more with your seven-day forecast: customize your location and push your outlook to a full ten days with your WECT Weather App.Copyright 2025 WECT. All rights reserved.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Your First Alert Weather Team urges you to stay alert with your WECT Weather App for wintry weather, some of which may be disruptive. Ahead of the most impactful weather, expect clearing and chilling conditions Sunday night with lows in the 20s and MLK Day with highs only around 40. After that, be alert for even deeper cold plus a risk of winter precipitation...BITTER COLD: Tuesday, Wednesday, and possibly Thursday and Friday will have high temperatures in the 30s and maybe not even above freezing, lows in the 10s and 20s, and wind chills as low as the single digits. These ranges amount to dangerous cold for uncovered skin, unsheltered pets, nonnative plants, and exposed pipes, so please continue to stay winterized and neighborly.Laying the foundation for potential winter weather: bitter cold. Here's a snapshot of Tuesday morning. Dangerous for uncovered skin, unsheltered pets, nonnative plants, and exposed pipes! Thanks for staying winterized and neighborly. pic.twitter.com/bB9CAkO3tV— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) January 19, 2025WINTER PRECIPITATION: Tuesday looks dry. Low pressure will likely form snow showers Tuesday night; though dry air and ice may limit accumulation, given the cold, even a lighter snow shower ought to be enough to coat yards and slicken roads. Dryness will return most of Wednesday. Additional ice or rain is possible late in the week; your First Alert Weather Team will advise.Same graphic as last post... Just pushing the ball forward after analyzing the overnight data, my friend! The only change I made was taking the chance for a generational snowstorm down from 20% to 10%; a "sweet spot" continues to develop in the middle. We'll watch! pic.twitter.com/5EhIGt2I2K— Gannon Medwick (@medwick) January 19, 2025See more with your seven-day forecast: customize your location and push your outlook to a full ten days with your WECT Weather App.Copyright 2025 WECT. All rights reserved.

The change. At some point in time, WECT added a third newscast to WSFX, under the title Fox 26 News at 6:30 (later became Fox Wilmington News at 6:30). It only aired on weeknights and attempted to compete against the national evening newscasts seen on the big three networks. It would be canceled by the end of 2013 in preparation to expand the weeknight edition of the 10 p.m. show to an hour (which occurred on January 15, 2014).After WWAY stopped producing weekend evening newscasts on August 1, 2009, WECT and WSFX became the only outlets in Wilmington to offer evening broadcasts seen seven nights a week. Although WWAY eventually reintroduced a local newscast airing Sunday nights at 11, WECT and WSFX remain the only channels in the market to air newscasts throughout the weekend. All newscasts on WSFX air from WECT's primary set but with modified duratrans indicating the Fox-branded shows.The station's signal is multiplexed:Prior to September 26, 2012, WECT-DT2 aired a 24-hour local weather channel with the branding "WECT Plus". The subchannel also aired repeats of the main channel's weeknight 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts as well as local traffic and travel information. Occasionally, other special programming aired on WECT-DT2. From April 15, 2005, until the end of December 2008, WECT-DT2 carried the defunct NBC Weather Plus. WECT replaced the local weather channel with Bounce TV on August 18, 2014.Escape (now Ion Mystery) was added to a new subchannel.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - As Tropical Storm Debby sluggishly picks its way into the central Carolinas through Thursday, its eastern bands will continue to heavily influence your First Alert Forecast for the Cape Fear Region. Expect a transition to more typical August weather conditions, including hot sun and, yes, scattered storms, into the weekend. This is definitely a week to have your WECT Weather App set to ping you with what may be a large menu of National Weather Service bulletins - from flooding to marine to tornado to tropical storm.Heavy Rain: Monday and Tuesday saw between one and four inches of rain across most of the Cape Fear Region. Expect additional torrential rain bands through Thursday and possibly Friday. Total rainfall from Debby remains highly likely to exceed six inches and many spots could yet net more than ten. Exercise extreme caution when traveling, especially in times of intense rain and around areas prone to flash and drainage flooding.River Flooding: Minor to locally moderate river flooding remains likely across the area by this weekend. For now, the official National Weather Service Forecast for the Northeast Cape Fear River at Burgaw even briefly pings major flood status with a projected Sunday crest of 17 feet. For perspective: Florence and Flood crested in the middle 20s. In any case, if the Debby forecast verifies, the river may force the closure of Whitestocking Road.Severe Storms: Continue to stay alert around any stronger rain bands as they may be able to leverage spin from the parent storm to spawn isolated tornadoes. This marginal risk will stay valid into at least through much of Thursday.Strong Winds: Humid east and south winds could gust up to tropical storm force - like the 30s, 40s, and 50s mph - into Thursday. Hurricane winds remain very unlikely. Keep loose yard and patio items secured, and devices charged to guard against any sporadic power outages.Marine Impacts: High surf, rip currents, hazardous seas, and isolated waterspouts should continue to encourage you to stay out of / off of the water through at least Friday.Thanks for staying with your First

Studio buildingFor its first half-century on the air, the station served as the default NBC affiliate for the northern and eastern portions of the Florence–Myrtle Beach, South Carolina market, including Myrtle Beach itself. That market was one of the last on the East Coast without its own NBC affiliate. It was carried on cable as far south as Georgetown, South Carolina. Well into the 1990s, it identified as "Wilmington–Fayetteville–Myrtle Beach" to acknowledge its viewership in Fayetteville and the Grand Strand. However, WECT's signal was somewhat weak on the North Carolina side of the market, such as Laurinburg.Atlantic Telecasting sold the station to the News-Press & Gazette Company in 1986. That company then sold its entire station group to the first incarnation of New Vision Television in 1993. New Vision turned around and sold its entire group to Ellis Communications in 1995. Ellis was folded into Raycom Media in 1997. In 2006, Raycom bought out the Liberty Corporation, owner of WWAY. However, FCC duopoly rules forced Raycom to spin off WWAY to Morris Multimedia as a condition of the Raycom–Liberty merger.On May 8, 2008, the FCC announced that five stations in Wilmington (including WECT) had agreed to voluntarily cease analog broadcasting on September 8[6] five months ahead of the February 17, 2009, tentative date for television stations to complete the analog-to-digital transition.[7][8] The market was used by the FCC as a pre-transition test market.[9] After the digital transition, WGNI radio agreed to air emergency weather information from WECT. Previously, because channel 6 is adjacent to the FM band, its broadcasts could be heard on FM 87.7.[4]WECT's coverage has been reduced as a result of the digital transition which left the station on UHF. The move of the station's transmitter by 35 miles (56 km) from south of White Lake to Winnabow left Fayetteville viewers unable to watch the station over the air.[4][10] The station's former transmitter was located in Bladen County, approximately halfway between Wilmington and Fayetteville. While Myrtle Beach itself is just outside the fringe area for the digital signal, North Myrtle Beach is just inside it. The southern and western portions of the Florence–Myrtle Beach market were served by another Raycom station, WIS in Columbia.On August 8, 2008, Raycom signed-on WMBF-TV, a new digital-only NBC affiliate in Myrtle Beach covering the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as part of its first network programming.[11] Due to FCC regulations, WECT disappeared