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La Niña, Other Atmospheric Patterns Set to Shape Our Winter Weather
This is the second part of our 2016-17 Winter Outlook series. Our office’s winter predictions are available in our Winter Outlook post. While forecasts from...
Folklore-Based Forecasts Offer Little Consensus for this Winter
Our 2016-17 Winter Outlook series includes three posts beginning today and concluding on November 17 with our office’s predictions for the winter. The signs of...
After Matthew, Fall-Like Weather Finally Arrives
The weather news in October was headlined by a single event: Hurricane Matthew. However, after the storm, dry weather took hold for the rest of...
Rapid Reaction: Drought Intensifies in Western NC
While eastern North Carolina continues to recover from record flooding after Hurricane Matthew, western North Carolina remains in a persistent drought. Extreme Drought (D3), the...
A New Phase of the CoCoRaHS Condition Monitoring Project
This past weekend saw the passage of Hurricane Matthew, and with it, heavy rains and strong winds in central and eastern NC. If you were...
Rapid Reaction: Matthew’s Mark on NC Includes Heavy Rain, Flooding
Hurricane Matthew won’t go down in the record books as a landfalling storm in North Carolina. At Category-1 strength as it grazed the coastline, it...
September Rains Soak the Coast While the West Remains Dry
While the entire state of North Carolina continued to see above-normal temperatures last month, there was a big difference in precipitation from east to west....