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The following is a list of North Carolina weather records.North Carolina is located in the Southeastern United States.With the Appalachian Mountains in the western portions of the state, the Piedmont stretching nearly 300 miles across the central portions of the state, and the Coastal Plains and Atlantic Ocean in the eastern portions of the state, North Carolina has experienced many different ...
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. [22] 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.
In 1934, the U.S. government established a tabulation unit in New Orleans, Louisiana, to process weather records. Climate records and upper air observations were punched onto cards in 1936. This organization was transferred to Asheville, North Carolina, in 1951, where the National Weather Records Center (NWRC). [3]
Some parts of southeastern North Carolina received around 23 inches of ... North Carolina braces for more after 'historic' rainfall wreaks havoc across state. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY ...
As Tropical Storm Hilary battered the West Coast and the southwestern U.S. with rain and flash flooding, four states — Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Oregon — broke their rainfall records ...
Highlands is an incorporated town in Macon County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... (North Carolina Highway 106). ... Climate data for Highlands, North ...
Vista trumped its 1979 record of 0.09 inch with 2.12 inches Sunday. In Death Valley National Park, preliminary NWS data at Furnace Creek recorded 2.20 inches of rain — the park's average annual ...
Over the contiguous United States, total annual precipitation increased at an average rate of 6.1 percent per century since 1900, with the greatest increases within the East North Central climate region (11.6 percent per century) and the South (11.1 percent). Hawaii was the only region to show a decrease (−9.25 percent). [89]