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Five Years Later, Five Lessons Learned from Matthew
It’s a rare storm that now stands out more for its similarities to, rather than its differences from, others in its era. Five years ago...
Rapid Reaction: Fred Fosters Floods in Western NC
The third tropical storm to affect North Carolina in the past two months targeted the Mountains with heavy rainfall and flooding this week. Like Claudette...
Rapid Reaction: Back-to-Back Ice Storms Pound the Northern Piedmont
If the Piedmont of North Carolina is the ice storm capital of the south, then the ruling weather regime had a full docket over the...
Rapid Reaction: Eta-Aided Rain Event Drenches NC
Amid a record-breaking hurricane season that has run up the score by repeatedly slam-dunking on the US coastline, it poured buckets in North Carolina yet again this...
Florence Revisited: Our Wettest Hurricane, Two Years Later
On this day in 2018, Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, and the worst was yet to come as the storm began its crawl...
Rapid Reaction: Isaias Moved Fast but Hit Hard in Eastern NC
It was a stealthy storm arriving overnight, but there was no mistaking the damage from Hurricane Isaias. Before it ever made it here, it had...
April 13th Tornado Outbreak Ranks Among NC’s Most Abundant
Last Monday, April 13, got off to a stormy start as a line of severe thunderstorms roared across North Carolina. In the process, they spawned...