Recent Posts
Summer Projects: SPEI, a Drought Index Based on Water Balance
This post is part of a series highlighting the summer projects from our office’s undergraduate research assistants. The author, Jessica Miller, is a senior majoring...
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...
Mild Weather, Arthur Headline July 2014 in NC
Overall, July in North Carolina was cooler than normal with a mix of dry and wet spots, including parts of the coast that were visited...
Lay of the Land: The Current State of Weather and Ag
This guest post by Dr. Mike Yoder with NC State University’s Department of Animal Sciences looks at the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture....
Spring 2014 Started Cool, Finished Warm in NC
This is the second post in our 2014 summer outlook series. Today we review our spring temperatures, precipitation, drought, and severe weather. Statewide Average Precipitation:...
High-Resolution Drought Monitoring
Earlier this week, we talked about how drought is monitored and why spring is a good time to take a step back and evaluate how...
Monitoring and Predicting Drought
This is the first in a multi-part series looking at drought. Before we cover some the drought tools we’ve developed, we thought it might be...