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Q&A: Our Record Warmest Year in 2019

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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…

Jan 31, 2025

Road trips, mountains and a whole lot of data: An NC State senior’s internship with the State Climate Office

NC State University senior Jack Kendrick spent last summer studying mountain inversions as an ECONet Summer Undergraduate Student Intern.
A group of about 25 C3HE workshop attendees pose for a picture outside. There are about three rows of people, standing in front of a wooded background. Leaves cover the ground in varying shades of orange and brown.

Dec 5, 2024

November workshop: Building collaborative approaches to complex climate hazards

The NOAA-funded Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership team, held a workshop that allowed team members to meet in person, share their research and view it through a new multidisciplinary lens. On November 8, the NOAA Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership held a workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the Museum of Life and Science in…
Weekly Drought Update Infographic for September 7, 2021.

Sep 23, 2021

New Resources Address Drought Communication Challenges

A dusty old weather pun says that drought is a very dry topic, but in practice, communicating about drought is an issue saturated with challenges, misconceptions, and opportunities. That was the inspiration behind a NOAA-funded project that our office completed in partnership with the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), aiming to increase the transparency…
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…

Aug 13, 2020

Join Us for Climate-Conscious NC!

Happy August! For those of you that don’t know me yet, my name is Kathie Dello and I’m the State Climatologist and Director of the State Climate Office. I was on the job for 8 months before we were sent into quarantine. My preferred engagement model — visit folks where they are, listen, and then…
NCCSR Cover

Mar 11, 2020

North Carolina Climate Science Report Plain Language Summary

For the past 8 months, our office has been involved in writing the North Carolina Climate Science Report, the first report of its kind for the state of North Carolina. This report was produced at the request of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality as part of the state’s response to Governor Cooper’s Executive…

Jan 8, 2020

Q&A: Our Record Warmest Year in 2019

Those warm days in late December when temperatures touched the 70s didn’t just make you pull out the sandals for holiday break. They also helped 2019 secure the title of North Carolina’s warmest year on record. Our record-setting year was confirmed today by our colleagues in Asheville at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National…