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April 2019 Summary

May 2, 2019

April’s Weather Includes Thunderstorms, Pollen Storms

Across the state, April saw wet weather including tornado-producing storms, increasing temperatures, and a yellow cloud covering the landscape thanks to a springtime pollen-pocalypse. Rain and Storms Soak the State April showers lived up to their name last month, as regular rainfall made it the 5th-wettest April on record since 1895 with a preliminary average…

Oct 30, 2018

Clearing the Air: A Discussion with Air Quality Forecasters

Today, our look at the state of air quality in North Carolina concludes with the third guest post by the meteorologists from the NC Division of Air Quality. Our final post in this year’s air quality series features a roundtable discussion about how we forecast air quality, the challenges we faced during the 2018 ozone…

Oct 25, 2018

Beyond a Number: Making and Verifying an Air Quality Forecast

Today, our look at the state of air quality in North Carolina continues with the second guest post by the meteorologists from the NC Division of Air Quality. Previously, we discussed the significant improvements in North Carolina’s air quality over the past ten years and how this has actually made air quality forecasting more challenging.…

Oct 23, 2018

Improving Air Quality Comes with a Forecasting Twist

It’s been more than four years since we checked in with our partners at the NC Division of Air Quality about the state of air quality in North Carolina. Over the next two weeks, the NC DAQ team of air quality forecasters will offer some updates in a series of guest blog posts. North Carolina’s…

Aug 14, 2014

Air Quality Forecasting: A Case Study

This is the second of two guest posts about air quality forecasting by Bradley McLamb from the NC Division of Air Quality. This post looks at June 29, 2012: a day for the record books in North Carolina that featured extraordinary heat, severe weather, and the worst air quality episode in five years. For many…

Aug 12, 2014

An Introduction to Air Quality Forecasting

This is the first of two guest posts this week about air quality forecasting by Bradley McLamb, a SCO alum and meteorologist with the NC Division of Air Quality. Today’s post looks at the basics behind air pollution and the informative index used for air quality forecasts. Air pollution can harm people’s health and damage…