Gabe Ross
Forecaster
Wilmington, NC
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Gabe Ross has been with WECT since 2015. Working behind the scenes as the News Operations Manager, he later joined the First Alert Weather Team in 2016.
A second-generation broadcaster and former Ohio Valley NATAS board member, Gabe has numerous credits to his name, including reporter, host, director, producer, and weather forecaster in east-central and southeastern Ohio. Gabe graduated from Ohio University, where he produced and worked on a wide variety of news, educational & entertainment programming.
Gabe and his wife, Isabella, have been married since 2023 and the two spend much of their leisure time enjoying the exceptional cuisine the area has to offer. The two are volunteers with the paws4people organization, where they met and adopted their career-change golden retriever, GENTRY. Outside of work, you'll also find Gabe hosting and opening for special events in the area, as he continues to chase his dream job of hosting a Game Show.
You can contact Gabe via email at gabe.ross@gray.tv Or connect with him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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The average for September 25 is lower 80s, but Monday is likely to surpass that.
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Seasonable temperatures and low rain chances will set the stage for the new week...
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A gorgeous late summer pattern will remain in place through midweek. Unsettled changes are probable late in the week.
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A high pressure system will maintain dry and seasonable weather for most of the week ahead.
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On the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Florence, your First Alert Forecast is just about the polar opposite of what it was in 2018.
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A much-heralded cold front that will steer Lee and bring nice weather is on-track.
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Your First Alert Forecast hinges on the passage of a fallish cold front.
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A puff of less humid air, akin to what we felt just before Labor Day, is on the way, and the exchange is tied to the path of Hurricane Lee.
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Your First Alert Weather Team continues to watch Hurricane Lee with some guarded optimism.
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Your First Alert Weather Team continues to watch Hurricane Lee with some guarded optimism.
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Record temperatures will be challenged in the near term. Later, cooler weather systems will be crucial for steering a huge hurricane.
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Temperatures will challenge record highs midweek. Some slightly cooler air is likely by the weekend.
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Cooler temperatures in the wake of Idalia, but lots of sun & dry time for Labor Day weekend...
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Rain chances remaining unsettled as a system in the Gulf of Mexico strengthens and targets the Gulf coast...
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Still heating up and watching the tropics...
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Heat will build back as Franklin, and possibly some other tropical weather features, also make moves...
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Daytime temperatures will reach the near 90 to lower 90s range with some deeper 90s possibly briefly mixing on the mainland.
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Your First Alert Forecast stocks plentiful sunshine and limited storms for this third weekend of August.
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Your First Alert Forecast launches the third weekend of August with plentiful sunshine.
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First Alert Forecast: variable rain chances at home, storms trending more troublesome in the tropics
Medium to high rain chances will trend quite low for much of the forecast period.
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Heat indices regularly reaching near 105+ as the Tropics heat up in kind...
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The sizzling summer sun will blast lots of 90s onto the Cape Fear Region for most to possibly all the afternoons in the week ahead.
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A few strong storms possible, but a break in the heat is coming...
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After an official high of 89 at Wilmington Monday, temperatures are ready to charge back to the 90s.
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Your First Alert Forecast contains both intense heat and seasonable heat...
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Your First Alert Forecast opens with another hot summer day across the Cape Fear Region. Storm chances will stay low, but not zero, for a bit, before taking a step forward...
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Expect no interruptions in the classic summer heat; storm chances will be a bit more variable.
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Temperatures will spend a lot of time in the 80s and lower 90s, but occasional storms will cool things down.
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Many Cape Fear communities will feel their first 90s of 2022 and a few inland spots could even make a run at 100.
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Lots of 90s lately and more to come...
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After a stormy night across portions of the Cape Fear Region, chances for additional storms will vary over the next few days.
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Poor air quality continues, along with a change for the cooler & wetter...
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Odds for storms will drop a bit Tuesday but they will rise again soon.
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Your First Alert Weather Team is tracking some potentially unsettled weather for Monday as the next front approaches. Not every backyard may turn stormy, though.
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Toastier temperatures and higher humidity levels will sponsor a modest uptick in rain and storm chances.
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Nice start to the work and school week...
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Your First Alert Forecast is looking very toasty across the Cape Fear Region right through Tuesday.
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Weekend rain chances continue to trend lower...
The WECT News Highway 6 program rolls into Chadbourn for the North Carolina Strawberry Festival with nice weather Friday. Saturday rain chances continue to trend smaller, too.
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First Alert Weather's Gabe Ross talks about the best evacuation routes if you must leave your home
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A large, cold low pressure system centered over the Great Lakes will continue to bring brisk, cool, crisp, westerly breezes to the Cape Fear Region.
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A page has turned in the calendar and also the forecast. Humidity and showers are done for a while...
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A cold front will bring some changes this weekend.
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Your First Alert Forecast is filled with temperatures deep in the 70s and 80s.
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Temperatures will be on the chilly side early, but pleasant and mild during the days ahead...
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Your First Alert Forecast continues with balmy breezes, but the longer term will serve a chilly reminder that the season is spring, not summer.
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Your First Alert Forecast opens with a warming trend. Then: some twists and turns onto Easter weekend.
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March is set to "go out like a lamb" for southeastern North Carolina. Your First Alert Weather Team is tracking some briefly bumpy changes for early April.
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Jacket and sweatshirt weather is back, but for a limited time.
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Your First Alert Forecast opens with modest, and then falling, rain chances, and temperatures are about to dip too.
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