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One Year After Helene, New Perspectives on Our Worst Storms
The sights and stories that slowly trickled out of western North Carolina last September were so shocking, they were at times hard to believe. Swollen...
The Weather Year in Review: Heat, Helene, and Weather Whiplash in 2024
This post is a summary of our recent Year in Review webinar. The recording from that event will be posted soon, and the presentation slides...
Reflecting on a Record-Setting, Storm-Soaked September
Due to Hurricane Helene, the National Centers for Environmental Information’s data center in Asheville is currently shut down. Our colleagues at NCEI have confirmed that...
The Weather Year in Review: The Yin and Yang of 2023
Characterized by evolving large-scale patterns and a variety of conditions across North Carolina, from wet to dry and smoky to stormy, 2023 was an interesting...
Florence After Five: Redefining the Future
This is the final in a four-part blog post series remembering Hurricane Florence for its five-year anniversary. The sheer extremity of Hurricane Florence left people...
The Weather Year in Review: Familiar Patterns with New Twists in 2022
It was a year that started and ended with totally out-of-season weather, and included just about every extreme in between, from hot to cold, wet...
Our Curious Coast: Adaptation and Resilience
If this blog post series so far has taught us anything, it’s that in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain, the land has always been in a...