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Climate Thresholds Tool Offers Historical Stats About Extreme Events
They’re the sort of climatological curiosities that may have crossed your mind this year without even realizing it. In the Sandhills: Wow, 90 degrees before March is...
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...
The Heat Backed Off and Rain Picked Up in October
October began with hundred-degree heat, but a mid-month pattern change brought some relief from the heat and widespread rainfall that led to drought improvement. Record...
A Hot, Dry September Sees Drought’s Rapid Return
The calendar says it’s fall but it still feels like summer. Our September temperatures were warm, our precipitation was generally light after Hurricane Dorian, and...
A Fryin’ July: Temperatures Soar in a Mid-Summer Heat Wave
Headlined by a week of often-oppressive heat for humans and crops alike, July was marked by warm temperatures and scattered but near-normal rainfall. In this...
A Hot, Dry May Sees Drought Return
Sizzling summer temperatures and widespread dry weather made for a scorching May that saw drought emerge in a potentially unlikely area. The Heat is On...
May Was Hot and Humid with Heavy Rains
Between torrential flood-causing rainfall and warm, humid weather, it was an active and often uncomfortable May weather-wise. Our latest climate summary takes a look at...