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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...
Floyd’s Flooding Overwhelmed Eastern North Carolina
This is the third post in our “Stormy Summer” series looking back at some memorable hurricane anniversaries occurring in 2019. Out of almost 150 years...
Floyd’s Inundation Along the Tar River Spurred a Call to Action
Rob Lipford knew it was an unusual event when even the water in his yard was seeking higher ground. At his home in Rocky Mount,...
Farmers Felt Floyd’s Full Force, Beginning in Onslow County
Perhaps the most famous pictures taken during Hurricane Floyd were not of people but of pigs. Aerial shots showed hog farms flooded by the storm,...