 i'm jeff maher from the weather channel news talk 11 10 and 99.3 wbt sunshine 79 in uptown record-breaking heat charlotte raleigh and a number of other cities across the u.s set records yesterday here in the city we got up to 101 degrees hottest day we've had here since june 2022 in the western mountains in burke county the brutal heat helping fuel a wildfire on burkemont mountain it's already burned more than 60 acres