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Rapid Reaction: Tropical Storm Chantal Soaks Central North Carolina
The first tropical system of the season to affect North Carolina produced locally heavy rainfall and flooding in parts of the Piedmont and Sandhills. Tropical...
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...
Rapid Reaction: Historic Flooding Follows Helene in Western NC
Torrential rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Helene capped off three days of extreme, unrelenting precipitation, which left catastrophic flooding and unimaginable damage in our...
Rapid Reaction: Unnamed Storm Unleashes Torrential Rain in Eastern NC
For the second time in just six weeks, parts of southeastern North Carolina have seen more than a foot of rainfall from a slow-moving storm...
Five Years Ago, Dorian Tested Our Post-Florence Preparedness
It was setting up to be a case of disaster déjà vu for North Carolina. Less than a year removed from Hurricane Florence – our...
Debby’s Deluge, Late-August Heat Ends a Summer of Extremes
August was wet for most of North Carolina thanks to Debby’s rainfall, while temperatures peaked in the final week of the month. That ended a...