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The NC Climate Education Network One Year Later: Science, Education, Art, and Community
One year ago we launched the NC Climate Education Network (NCCEN) which aims to connect professionals in the state interested in tackling climate education. From...![A photograph of the Bodie Island lighthouse](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BodieIsland-360x216.jpeg)
From Deluges to Droughts in 2021: the Weather Year in Review
Whether wet or dry, Mother Nature just couldn’t make up her mind in North Carolina last year. While 2021 was not particularly extreme in the...![A chart showing the historical hottest temperature occurrence, by month, for Raleigh](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hottest_temp_by_month_Raleigh-360x216.png)
Climate Curiosities: When the Dog Days are the Doggonest
After sliding through this June and July with relatively few hot days, it may have seemed like we were out of the woods when it...![](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/monthly_departures_2020-360x216.png)
An Extreme, Unusual 2020: the Weather Year in Review
The unprecedented aspects of 2020 included our climate in North Carolina, which the statistics show was an extreme year in our modern history. According to...![](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ClimateConsciousNC-360x216.png)
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...![NCCSR Cover](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NCCSR_cover_16-9-2-1-360x216.png)
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...![](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/precip_DFN_MAM2020-360x216.png)
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...![](https://climate.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/loblolly_freezing_days-360x216.jpg)