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Rain, Ice, and Snow Had Us Covered in January
In all its forms, precipitation piled up in a wet January, although drought remains in some areas. Cool weather also reversed our warm December pattern...
Three Storms in Three Weeks Jump Start the Winter
Our weather has taken a “new year, new me” approach to 2022, with the warm and dry pattern from late 2021 replaced by a decidedly...
Climate Curiosities: Our Last Big Snow Events
After a couple of lackluster winters in a row — and with an outlook that doesn’t exactly scream “snow days on the way!” — the...
Winter Outlook 2021-22: La Niña, Take Two?
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but for some meteorologists, it’s feeling a bit like Groundhog Day. For the second year in a row, a La...
Winter Recap 2020-21: La Niña Lays Low in a Persistent Wet Winter
Chalk it up to atmospheric anomalies or a forecast without foresight. Either way, this winter defied expectations and drenched most of North Carolina for yet...
Very Wet, Fairly Cold, but Rarely Snow This February
The jet stream pattern in February brought plenty of precipitation and some colder air into North Carolina, but that did not materialize into much snow across the state. A Soaked...
Rapid Reaction: Back-to-Back Ice Storms Pound the Northern Piedmont
If the Piedmont of North Carolina is the ice storm capital of the south, then the ruling weather regime had a full docket over the...