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NC Extremes: The Stories Behind Our Extremes

This is the final post of 2015 in our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. Every month this year, we have covered some of...

NC Extremes: Damaging Hurricanes From Slopes to Shores

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. In September, our NC Extremes post highlighted the strongest hurricanes to affect...

Slow-Moving Ana Brings Steady Rains to Eastern NC

Although three weeks remain until the traditional start of hurricane season, some recent activity in the Atlantic gave us the first named storm — Tropical...

Heavy Rain by Any Other Name Still Has an Impact

We conclude our series on CoCoRaHS March Madness with some perspective on heavy rain events and how CoCoRaHS observations are used. Heavy rain goes by...

Mild October Sees Variable Rainfall, Changing Leaves

October saw several signs of fall across the state. Statewide Temperatures Slightly Above Normal Our October saw a mix of warm days with highs in...

4 Factors that Made Hazel a Perfect Storm for NC

Before Fran, Floyd, Isabel, or Irene, there was Hazel. When Hurricane Hazel made landfall 60 years ago today, it set the standard for hurricane intensity...