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Spring’s Slow March Leaves Winter Behind
Steadily warming temperatures throughout March, as well as a dry and mostly snow-free month, mean spring is upon us. In this post, we also look...
A Drenched December Caps a Record Wet Year
Precipitation continued to be the main story in North Carolina’s weather, including a record wet December that — despite a substantial wintry event early in...
Rapid Reaction: A Season’s Worth of Snow in One Day
We didn’t have to wait long this winter to see our first major snow event in North Carolina. The second weekend of December brought significant...
The SCOfficial 2018-19 Winter Outlook
In our previous post, we described the atmospheric patterns that could affect the northern hemisphere jet streams — and therefore our weather — this winter....
Winter Outlook: A ‘Similar but Different’ El Niño Taking Shape
Today, we kick off our seventh annual winter outlook series by looking at the state of the oceans and atmosphere entering the winter, along with...
Winter Recap 2017-18: A Season of Surprises
It was the winter that kept us guessing. Just when we thought our warm fall would persist into 2018, a record-setting cold snap ensued. We...
A Tale of Weather Transitions in 2017
Today, we’ll catch you up on last year’s weather storylines in North Carolina, and discuss just how extreme the past year was for our state....