Weather
Weather: First week of autumn feels more like summer
Sept. 22. It’s fall y’all but the temperatures feel more like summer than autumn. Some much-needed rain could be headed our way later this week. Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Light and variable wind. Tonight, partly cloudy, with a low around 63 and calm wind. Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near […]
Weekend weather: Sunny and dry
Sept. 19. Gabrielle is officially a tropical storm and is expected to strengthen to hurricane status in the next several days. It’s currently located due east of Puerto Rico but the most recent forecast track has it remaining far out to sea. Today: Sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind. Tonight Mostly clear, with […]
Weather: Beautiful week ahead as summer comes to a close
Sept. 15. Comfortable temperatures in the forecast this week and a minimal chance of rain. Get out and enjoy the final week of summer. Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. Light north northeast wind becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Tonight mostly […]
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 […]
