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Florence Revisited: Our Wettest Hurricane, Two Years Later

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Mar 9, 2021

Want to Compete in March Madness? You Can, CoCoRaHS Style!

As any college basketball fan knows, the state of North Carolina tends to perform well in the month of March. But no matter which color jersey you root for, you can help our state succeed in another March Madness competition, all while helping meteorologists more accurately track precipitation across the country. The Community Collaborative Rain,…
Feb 2021 Precip Summary

Mar 3, 2021

Very Wet, Fairly Cold, but Rarely Snow This February

The jet stream pattern in February brought plenty of precipitation and some colder air into North Carolina, but that did not materialize into much snow across the state. A Soaked February The shortest month of the year was packed with plenty of precipitation. The National Centers for Environmental Information reports a preliminary statewide average precipitation of 5.69 inches, which ranks as…
Power Crew

Feb 20, 2021

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 past week, with two damaging storms since last Friday. These high-impact events locally were part of a larger active weather pattern that has seen snow blanket nearly three-quarters of the continental US, extreme…

Feb 2, 2021

A ‘Fairy Tale’ January Has Tame Temperatures, Precipitation Variety

Once upon a time last month, our temperatures seemed bland and boring, but a closer look revealed a world of precipitation possibilities, including snow, soggy spots, and the return of dryness in North Carolina. Goldilocks-Like Temperatures In terms of temperatures, January was like the baby bear’s porridge: not too hot, not too cold. It was indeed an unremarkable month as…

Jan 4, 2021

Warm, Wet December Weather Lands Short of Annual Records

With year-long temperature and precipitation records on the line, we narrowly missed both following warm and wet (but not warm and wet enough) weather in December. The initial stats still show it was an extreme year. You’re invited to learn more in an upcoming webinar! Cooler Spells Temper our Temperatures While a moderately warm month could have set a new annual…

Dec 4, 2020

A Warm, Wet November Puts Records Within Reach

A few drenched days from the tropics’ parting shot to the Southeast amounted to a wet month in North Carolina that also featured sustained warmth. That vaulted us closer to potential new annual temperature and precipitation records. Eta’s Moisture Drives Wet Weather Capping off the hurricane season, tropical moisture from one storm almost single-handedly made it one of the…

Sep 14, 2020

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 across the state. After five days of rainfall, we were left with record flooding and more questions than answers about what the weeks, months, and years ahead would look like.…