Weather

Dorian looks like it may not make a South Carolina landfall, but watching repeated hurricane advisories and all of the other coverage of this system made me curious, what hurricanes have hit South Carolina before? Using historical data form IBTrACS (International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship), I took all …

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Hurricane Florence may be in the Northeastern US now, but it is still leaving an impact on this state due to the sheer amount of rainfall that was dropped in such a short amount of time. Below are National Weather Service (NWS) preliminary rainfall totals and maps from the storm …

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We are getting quite closer to landfall and as most guidance converges, it does look like we are going to have a landfall in Southeastern NC, somewhere from Cape Fear, NC to Topsail Beach, NC. The National Hurricane Center’s 11 EDT advisory shows that Hurricane Florence has dropped in strength …

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With the potential landfall of Hurricane Florence somewhere on the Carolina coast later this week, this analysis could not have been better timed. Just as many of these events below are tied to hurricanes, Hurricane Florence could follow in their stead and dump large amounts of rain. Below is a …

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The heat of this summer may not have waned yet, but cool air will be headed our way shortly. Growing up in the coastal plain of South Carolina, I was always fascinated with the weather that winter brings. This obsession is what led me to write this series of articles …

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In the dog days of summer, South Carolina can get quite warm with the combination of high temperatures and high humidity. One always thinks that there can’t be somewhere hotter than what they just experienced on a blazing hot day. My first hypothesis before crunching the data on this is …

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