Weather
Weekend Weather: Warm temps return and no rain in sight
Sept. 12. Despite the relatively dry stretch of weather to wrap up our summer season, most of North Carolina is not experiencing any form of drought conditions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The water level on Lake Norman 97.2% of full pond, just three-tenths of a percentage point below the target goal […]
Weather: Time to bust out the allergy medicine
Sept. 8. Yesterday, as I drove my 13-year-old daughter and her friend to their soccer game, I quoted the SNL skit with Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler. “Hey girls it’s almost sweatah weathah. Sweatah weathah. Sweatah weathah!” Neither laughed or had any idea what I was talking about. No tropical systems in the Atlantic and […]
Weekend weather: Fall temps for Sunday’s NFL kickoff
Sept. 5. There’s nothing better than when the seasons respect the calendar. Winter sweater weather wraps up by March. The summer humidity doesn’t show up until late May. Fall temperatures dot the forecast around Labor Day, before the fall air settles in for the start of the NFL season. The Panthers head down to Jacksonville […]
Weather: Second summer making an appearance
Sept. 2. Second summer is upon us. After more than a week of comfortable temperatures and low humidity the mercury rises again this week with high temps back into the mid-to-upper 80s later in the week. The humidity returns as well but shouldn’t be anything like the sweltering summer that’s coming to a close. Today: […]
Weekend weather: Great time to get outside
Aug. 29. Forecast is comfortable and dry – looks like a great weekend to be on the lake or soaking up the ceremonial end of summer at the pool. There are still plenty of tee times available at Birkdale if you’re looking to hit the links. If you’re the fishing type, the spotted bass have […]
Weather: Are fall temps here for good?
It’s not exactly sweater weather but fake fall is upon us. The rest of the week’s forecast is highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s and upper 50s. Maybe it’s here to stay but second summer usually makes an appearance at some point in September before autumn temps finally cool off […]
Weekend weather: Humidity sticks around
Aug. 22. Off shore hurricanes and tropical storms tend to grab the summer humidity and pull it northward in the days after the storms pass through but it looks like we won’t see much benefit from Hurricane Erin this weekend, which never got any closer than a few hundred miles offshore. The next tropical system […]
Weather: Rain in the forecast; hurricane forecast updated
Aug. 11. The recent rainfall has closed the gap but we’re still roughly two inches below average in total rainfall this year. The USGS rain gauge located on Norman Shores has recorded about 25 inches of rain year this year compared to the average of 27 inches by mid-August. Our average annual rainfall is around […]
Weekend Weather: Mild temperatures stay with us
Aug. 8. With any luck the streak of 90-plus temperatures and exorbitant summer irrigation bills are behind us. If the brown patch in your grass looks like ours it’s a welcome reprieve from the soggy, hot summer. Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Northeast wind around 8 mph. A slight chance of showers […]
Weekend weather: Typical summer
June 30. It will get warmer this weekend—94 on Sunday—with that summery mix of showers and T-storms that make life interesting. For fireworks, it looks good on both July 3 and July 4. Friday: Chance of showers, and T-storms. thunderstorms. High near 87. Saturday: Chance of showers, high near 89. Sunday: Chance of showers and […]
