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NC Extremes: Spring Freezes Prove Costly for Agriculture

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Dec 17, 2015

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 North Carolina’s weather records from hot to cold, wet to dry, and fire to ice. These records describe a state with a wide variety of weather conditions and plenty of…

Dec 4, 2015

NC Extremes: An Ice Storm for the Ages

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. Winter weather in North Carolina can be a fickle thing. When cold air and moisture come together at the right time, the outcome can be an impressive snowstorm. However, even small temperature differences throughout the atmosphere can turn a potentially scenic, snowy…

Nov 5, 2015

NC Extremes: 2007’s Drought Emerged Quickly, Affected Millions in NC

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. In some of the extreme weather events we’ve covered this year, there were dramatic impacts like an 18-foot storm surge or a line of damaging tornadoes. Other events had a clear peak, like when morning lows dropped below zero on “the Coldest…

Oct 13, 2015

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 North Carolina based on the pressure, wind speeds, and storm surge statistics. But when it comes to storm damage, strength isn’t always in the numbers. All corners of our state…

Sep 16, 2015

NC Extremes: Strong Hurricanes Are No Strangers to NC’s Coast

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. Hurricanes are among the most extreme weather events North Carolina routinely receives. The combination of wind, rain, storm surge, and other hazards packs a major punch, particularly in the strongest storms. There are several ways to determine the strength of a hurricane.…

Aug 20, 2015

NC Extremes: Our History of Record Heat

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. The heat and humidity of a North Carolina summer can be uncomfortable enough in a typical year. But our state has a history of the heat ramping up, often for days at a time, and pushing our statewide high temperature record —…

Jul 15, 2015

NC Extremes: Flood of 1916 Wiped Out Railways, Records

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. One of our state’s most notable floods wreaked havoc on western North Carolina residents in July 1916, breaking multiple records and leaving death and destruction in its wake. The Preceding Weather In late June 1916, a tropical depression formed in the western…

Jun 23, 2015

NC Extremes: NC Pocosins a Hotspot for Large Wildfires

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. Extreme weather conditions such as drought and high winds can provide an ideal environment for wildfires to ignite and spread. Many of these large fires have occurred on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula in eastern North Carolina. That’s no coincidence according to Cabe Speary,…

May 1, 2015

NC Extremes: Spring Freezes Prove Costly for Agriculture

This post is part of our year-long series about North Carolina’s weather extremes. May is generally associated with warming temperatures, springtime thunderstorms, and rain showers to feed emerging plants. But several times in recent history, including a record-setting event in early May of 1963, the onset of spring has been interrupted by a wintertime relic…