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Summer Sizzles in a Stormy, Steamy July
July saw a wet start including Tropical Storm Chantal and month-long warmth, especially overnight. To help communities prepare for hot weather like that, an Extreme...
How Heat Stress – and Monitoring – is Changing in NC
Thirty minutes into the most recent Olympic women’s soccer gold medal match between the United States and Brazil, officials recognized it was time for a...
Rapid Reaction: Tropical Storm Chantal Soaks Central North Carolina
The first tropical system of the season to affect North Carolina produced locally heavy rainfall and flooding in parts of the Piedmont and Sandhills. Tropical...
June Started Wet, Ended Hot with Active Air Quality
June was warm overall thanks to a late-month heat wave and mostly wet due to early-month showers and storms. It also saw several air quality...
Helene’s Damage Presents Fire Management, Monitoring Challenges
It was an environmental domino effect that was hard to fathom considering huge swaths of western North Carolina had been under water just two months...
Drought Finally Disappears After a Fiery Start to 2025
It began in the wake of extreme flooding from Hurricane Helene and ended amid the onset of sunny summer weather. After spanning parts of all...
Spring Showers in May End a Long-Running Dry Spell
May brought a wetter weather pattern and prevailing above-normal temperatures in North Carolina. With summer now upon us, we also look at outlooks for the...