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The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4] Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
The death toll in Western North Carolina had risen to at least 94 people Thursday with officials saying the number could climb even higher as search efforts continued throughout the region.
Beginning in March 2024, severe heat waves impacted Mexico, the Southern and Western United States, and Central America, leading to dozens of broken temperature records, [1] mass deaths of animals from several threatened species, water shortages requiring rationing, [2] increased forest fires, and over 155 deaths in Mexico with 2,567 people suffering from heat-related ailments. [3]
WATCH: Volunteers in North Carolina donate propane to those impacted by Helene Zach Bumgarner, vice president of Bumgarner Oil, told Fox News Digital that his company has "given away 22,000 ...
The storm, and its related cold wave, killed at least 100 people, with six additional deaths occurring due to a simultaneous, smaller storm in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Oregon, Washington). 41 of the deaths from the main storm occurred in the Buffalo area where lake-effect snowfall exceeded 56 in (140 cm) over a five-day period ...
First piloted in the fall of 2020, the phased transition to have funeral directors and medical providers submit electronic death certificates was a long time coming for North Carolina, one of only ...
The Summer 2012 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in modern North American history. It resulted in more than 82 heat-related deaths across the United States and Canada , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and an additional twenty-two people died in the resultant June 2012 North American derecho .