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A Soaking Wet Summer Continues in July

Ryan Boyles

Aug 20, 2014

Behind the Scenes of our Latest Station Installation

Last week, a team of nine staff members and students from our office completed the installation of our 38th ECONet weather station. This new station is in Rutherford County on the campus of Isothermal Community College in Spindale, NC. Here is a closer look at this site and how we install a new weather station.…

Apr 22, 2014

Monitoring and Predicting Drought

This is the first in a multi-part series looking at drought. Before we cover some the drought tools we’ve developed, we thought it might be best to provide some basics on drought monitoring and prediction. Drought is a part of North Carolina’s climate, defined as a deficit in normal precipitation for a region over a…

Mar 12, 2014

Snowy Weather but Typical Temperatures for February

Monthly statistics for February 2014:Statewide Average Precipitation: 3.27 inches (42nd driest since 1895)Statewide Average Temperature: 42.12°F (60th warmest / 61st coldest since 1895)* Values generated from preliminary numbers Believe It or Not, February was Near-Normal! Many reading this will have the mid-February wintry event — and even the plunging temperatures and subsequent ice storm that occurred last…

Jan 10, 2014

December Brings a Wet End to a Wet Year

Monthly statistics for December 2013:Statewide Average Precipitation: 5.75 inches (12th wettest since 1895)Statewide Average Temperature: 44.65°F (27th warmest since 1895)* Values generated from preliminary numbers Both minimum and maximum temperatures in December were generally just a bit above normal, and otherwise typical for December. The big news for the close of the year was the continued wet…

Dec 3, 2013

A Frigid End to Fall in November

Monthly statistics for November 2013:Statewide Average Precipitation: 3.84 inches (34th wettest since 1895)Statewide Average Temperature: 47.32°F (26th coldest since 1895)* Values generated from preliminary numbers November Brings a Cold, Dry End to Autumn Temperatures in November were cold — maximum, minimum and mean daily temperatures ranked in the top 10 coldest on record for many reporting sites…

Nov 12, 2013

Cloudy Weather But Little Rain in October

Monthly statistics for October 2013:Statewide Average Precipitation: 2.34 inches (51st driest since 1895)Statewide Average Temperature: 60.08°F (22nd coldest since 1895)* Values generated from preliminary numbers Cloudy October Tempers our Temperatures You may have noticed October seemed a bit on the cloudy side in your area, especially toward the beginning of the month. This begs the question —…

Oct 24, 2013

First Freeze for Autumn 2013: How Does it Compare?

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will likely produce the first freeze events of the season across most of the lower elevations of North Carolina. Higher elevations have already experienced a freeze. How does the timing of the first freeze in 2013 compare with historical climatology? Below is a table with dates of average, earliest, and latest…

Sep 10, 2013

Cooler Temperatures Across NC in August

Monthly statistics for August 2013:Statewide Average Precipitation: 5.00 inches (0.17 inches above normal)Statewide Average Temperature: 74.6°F (1.3°F below normal)* Values generated from preliminary numbers A Wet, Cool Summer Continues August in North Carolina was a continuation of the cool, wet conditions experienced in previous months. It didn’t rain quite as much, but temperatures continued to be below…

Aug 7, 2013

A Soaking Wet Summer Continues in July

Monthly statistics for July 2013:Statewide Average Precipitation: 9.30 inches (very wet – 3rd wettest since 1895)Statewide Average Temperature: 76.83 (in the middle – 60th coolest since 1895)* Values generated from preliminary numbers Cool Daytime and Warm Nighttime Temperatures Don’t let that statewide mean temperature fool you. Temperatures in July 2013 probably felt unusually cool to most residents…