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Florence Revisited: Our Wettest Hurricane, Two Years Later
On this day in 2018, Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, and the worst was yet to come as the storm began its crawl...
Rapid Reaction: Isaias Moved Fast but Hit Hard in Eastern NC
It was a stealthy storm arriving overnight, but there was no mistaking the damage from Hurricane Isaias. Before it ever made it here, it had...
Summer Sputters to a Start in a Cool, Cloudy June
June continued our late-spring cooler pattern with wet conditions in parts of the state. At the halfway point in 2020, we also check the year-to-date temperature and precipitation rankings. Cool Temperatures...
Early-Season Tropical Storms Contribute to a Cool, Wet May
The early onset of hurricane season included two storms visiting North Carolina in May. They helped make it a wet month, as well as a...
A Decade in Review: The 2010s
Over the next two weeks, we’ll close out this year and decade with a look back at how the 2010s played out weather-wise in North...
Was Hazel North Carolina’s Worst-Case Hurricane?
This is the final post in our “Stormy Summer” series looking back at some memorable hurricane anniversaries occurring in 2019. No discussion about North Carolina’s...
A Tropical Trio in September 2004 Tested the Mountain Terrain
This is the fifth post in our “Stormy Summer” series looking back at some memorable hurricane anniversaries occurring in 2019. Long after their hurricane-force winds...