Potentially Dangerous Heat to Impact the Southeast Next Week

Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Thursday evening, a couple days ago we wrote a blog piece providing a first alert on a potential heatwave for the Carolinas and all of the Southeast. Confidence is growing by the minute that we will see the highest temperatures of 2022 for most of next week. Everyone from theContinue reading “Potentially Dangerous Heat to Impact the Southeast Next Week”

Long Range Outlook: Signs of First Summer Heatwave

Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Earlier today we talked about the pattern coming up through the end of the work week, a pattern that could include some Mesoscale Convective Systems. The upper air pattern through the end of the week will be supportive of that, however once we get toward the end of the 7-Day forecast,Continue reading “Long Range Outlook: Signs of First Summer Heatwave”

Abnormally Dry Conditions Across Sections of Western North Carolina

Good Thursday afternoon, the drought index has been updated for this week and for the first time in a while parts of Western North Carolina have been placed in the abnormally dry category (D0) of drought conditions. In our coverage area, Alexander and Caldwell Counties are a part of the “abnormally dry” area. Other townsContinue reading “Abnormally Dry Conditions Across Sections of Western North Carolina”