This week, we at the State Climate Office say farewell to our director, Dr. Kathie Dello, and wish her all the best as she begins a new chapter in her service to the state of North Carolina as the Assistant Secretary of Resilience at the NC Department of Environmental Quality. When Kathie arrived in North…
The NOAA-funded Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership team, held a workshop that allowed team members to meet in person, share their research and view it through a new multidisciplinary lens. On November 8, the NOAA Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership held a workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the Museum of Life and Science in…
A dusty old weather pun says that drought is a very dry topic, but in practice, communicating about drought is an issue saturated with challenges, misconceptions, and opportunities. That was the inspiration behind a NOAA-funded project that our office completed in partnership with the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), aiming to increase the transparency…
We’re proud to officially launch our new-look website today, and our current design is more than just a fresh coat of paint. Here’s an overview of what you will find, headlined by our new data request tool that makes it faster and easier than ever before to access weather and climate data from across North…
For the ninth year in a row, we’re proud to share our winter outlook for North Carolina. This year, the atmosphere has offered up a clear indication of the main large-scale pattern at play entering the winter: a fast-forming La Niña during in the fall. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most…
Happy August! For those of you that don’t know me yet, my name is Kathie Dello and I’m the State Climatologist and Director of the State Climate Office. I was on the job for 8 months before we were sent into quarantine. My preferred engagement model — visit folks where they are, listen, and then…
For the past 8 months, our office has been involved in writing the North Carolina Climate Science Report, the first report of its kind for the state of North Carolina. This report was produced at the request of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality as part of the state’s response to Governor Cooper’s Executive…
Those warm days in late December when temperatures touched the 70s didn’t just make you pull out the sandals for holiday break. They also helped 2019 secure the title of North Carolina’s warmest year on record. Our record-setting year was confirmed today by our colleagues in Asheville at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National…
This week, we at the State Climate Office say farewell to our director, Dr. Kathie Dello, and wish her all the best as she begins a new chapter in her service to the state of North Carolina as the Assistant Secretary of Resilience at the NC Department of Environmental Quality. When Kathie arrived in North…
NC State University senior Jack Kendrick spent last summer studying mountain inversions as an ECONet Summer Undergraduate Student Intern.
The NOAA-funded Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership team, held a workshop that allowed team members to meet in person, share their research and view it through a new multidisciplinary lens. On November 8, the NOAA Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership held a workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the Museum of Life and Science in…
A dusty old weather pun says that drought is a very dry topic, but in practice, communicating about drought is an issue saturated with challenges, misconceptions, and opportunities. That was the inspiration behind a NOAA-funded project that our office completed in partnership with the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), aiming to increase the transparency…
We’re proud to officially launch our new-look website today, and our current design is more than just a fresh coat of paint. Here’s an overview of what you will find, headlined by our new data request tool that makes it faster and easier than ever before to access weather and climate data from across North…
For the ninth year in a row, we’re proud to share our winter outlook for North Carolina. This year, the atmosphere has offered up a clear indication of the main large-scale pattern at play entering the winter: a fast-forming La Niña during in the fall. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most…
Happy August! For those of you that don’t know me yet, my name is Kathie Dello and I’m the State Climatologist and Director of the State Climate Office. I was on the job for 8 months before we were sent into quarantine. My preferred engagement model — visit folks where they are, listen, and then…
For the past 8 months, our office has been involved in writing the North Carolina Climate Science Report, the first report of its kind for the state of North Carolina. This report was produced at the request of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality as part of the state’s response to Governor Cooper’s Executive…
Those warm days in late December when temperatures touched the 70s didn’t just make you pull out the sandals for holiday break. They also helped 2019 secure the title of North Carolina’s warmest year on record. Our record-setting year was confirmed today by our colleagues in Asheville at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National…