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A photo of Kathie Dello speaking to students at Morehead Planetarium's Teen Science Cafe

Aug 28, 2025

Six Years of Service and Science: Honoring our Departing Director, Kathie Dello

This week, we at the State Climate Office say farewell to our director, Dr. Kathie Dello, and wish her all the best as she begins a new chapter in her service to the state of North Carolina as the Assistant Secretary of Resilience at the NC Department of Environmental Quality. When Kathie arrived in North…
Hourly temperature and precipitation data from the Castle Hayne ECONet station, plotted on an interactive and exportable graph in Station Scout.

Apr 5, 2021

Our New Website Offers Data on Demand, ECONet Insights

We’re proud to officially launch our new-look website today, and our current design is more than just a fresh coat of paint. Here’s an overview of what you will find, headlined by our new data request tool that makes it faster and easier than ever before to access weather and climate data from across North…

Nov 18, 2020

Winter Outlook 2020-21: La Niña Has Landed

For the ninth year in a row, we’re proud to share our winter outlook for North Carolina. This year, the atmosphere has offered up a clear indication of the main large-scale pattern at play entering the winter: a fast-forming La Niña during in the fall. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most…

Nov 21, 2019

The 2019-20 Winter Outlook: A Little of Everything?

We’ve already gotten our first taste of winter with last week’s freezing temperatures, so with a whole season still to come, it’s natural to wonder: is more of the same cold weather coming, or is a wintertime warm-up on the way? In this post, we will review the atmospheric features that may shape our weather…
Stormy Summer 2019

Aug 19, 2019

Stormy Summer 2019: Series Overview

Throughout August and September 2019, we’ll remember the anniversaries of hurricanes that struck North Carolina 20 years ago, 30 years ago… and all the way back to 140 years in the past. To bring a unique perspective about these storms, we’ve scoured the record books and historical reports for details that didn’t make the top…

Jun 14, 2019

State Climate Office Welcomes New Director

We are delighted to announce that later this month, Kathie Dello will join the State Climate Office of North Carolina as our new permanent director and as the State Climatologist for North Carolina. Kathie comes to us from Oregon, where she serves as Associate Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and as Deputy…

Dec 13, 2017

Welcome to Our New Website!

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Today, we re-launched our website with a new look and a slightly different layout. But fear not: the same weather and climate information you’re accustomed to finding from us is still here! To help acclimate you to our new NC Climate Office website, here’s an overview of the changes and…

Jul 28, 2016

Celebrating our Climate Office Leader after a Decade of Enlightenment

Today is a bittersweet day at the State Climate Office (SCO) as we say farewell to Dr. Ryan Boyles, our director and state climatologist for the past ten years, and wish him the best of luck in his new position as deputy director of the Department of the Interior Southeast Climate Science Center. For most…

Mar 7, 2016

Vote for North Carolina’s Top Weather Event of the Past Year [VOTING CLOSED]

It’s tournament time and this year, we’re getting in on the action! No, we’re not fielding a basketball team or going dancing — apparently last summer’s rain dances worked a little too well! Instead, we have set up a four-round tournament to determine North Carolina’s most memorable weather event from the past 12 months —…