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A Warm, Wet November Concludes NC’s Wettest Fall
More rain in November continued this fall’s wet pattern. Mild Days, Warm Nights Elevate Temperatures While the waning daylight hours and fallen leaves made it...
The SCOfficial 2015-16 Winter Outlook
This year’s Winter Outlook series concludes with the official outlook from our office. Over the past two weeks, we’ve laid out the puzzle pieces for...
Analog Winters Help Show the Possibilities for This Year
Our Winter Outlook series has already covered the latest on El Niño and polar patterns. Today’s post looks at past years with similar conditions to...
Polar Patterns Could Open the Gates for Cold, Wintry Weather
As our Winter Outlook series continues, we turn our attention to the polar jet stream, which will largely determine how much of this winter’s precipitation...
Strong El Niño Drives Pacific Patterns, Jet Stream Impacts
The second post in our 2015-16 Winter Outlook series turns to the Pacific Ocean for an update on El Niño and its possible impacts to...
Woolly Worms, Almanacs, and August Weather Predict the Winter
Our 2015-16 Winter Outlook series begins today and concludes on November 23rd. In these five posts, we will discuss predictions and patterns that may shape...
NC Extremes: 2007’s Drought Emerged Quickly, Affected Millions in NC
This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. In some of the extreme weather events we’ve covered this year, there...