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Extreme Events from the Past Year, as Told by CoCoRaHS Reports
North Carolina had some impactful weather events over the past 12 months, from intense summer storms to powerful tropical systems along the coast to a...
Rapid Reaction: Wintry One-Two Punch Brings Frozen Precip. and Frigid Air
The first winter storm of the season for most of North Carolina brought widely varied impacts across the state, with more than 10 inches of...
Record Snow or No? Behind the Scenes of a Record Event Review
Last year on our blog, we covered many of North Carolina’s historical extreme weather events, including the state record snowfall — 36 inches in 24...
The SCOfficial 2016-17 Winter Outlook
This is the third and final part of our 2016-17 Winter Outlook series including our expectations for this winter. Freezing temperatures finally arrived across much...
From Snow Cones to Snow Showers: April 1983’s Snow and Freeze
Thirty-three years ago this week amid a warm spring in 1983, an April shower brought a record-setting springtime snow, followed by several days of sub-freezing...
Winter Recap 2015-16: El Niño Fuels Wet Weather, Little Snow
With spring springing and blooms blooming, the winter has wrapped up in North Carolina. While we can’t rule out additional frost or freeze events this...
Hump Day-ja Vu: The Three Wednesday Snows of March 1960
March of 1960 must have felt a bit like Groundhog Day in North Carolina. For the first three Wednesdays of the month, parts of the...