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NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season
Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season. Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.
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Updated 1:30 p.m. yesterday | Read Story | 13 comments
NC State researchers: 2013 to have active hurricane season
Top researchers at N.C. State have concluded that the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, is bound to have an active hurricane season.
Updated April 18 | Read Blog Post
Rebuilding NC 12: Saving a vital link or throwing money in the ocean?
Since the early 1990s, taxpayers have spent more than $30 million repairing a vulnerable stretch of N.C. Highway 12 after storms battered the Outer Banks. Some areas have been fixed multiple times. Critics say the state is wasting money in a relentless battle between nature and man, while supporters say it is a vital link that must be saved.
Updated November 19, 2012 | Read Story | 76 comments
NC-based Samaritan's Purse reaches out to Sandy-ravaged victims
Samaritan's Purse, out of Boone, is helping provide relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey.
Updated November 14, 2012 | Read Story | 16 comments
Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy?
Gary Lackmann, a professor at North Carolina State University, has written three papers on climate change and continues to study the subject. WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel visited him to get his opinion on whether climate change caused Hurricane Sandy.
Updated November 12, 2012 | Read Story | 89 comments

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wralweather: Forecast: Today, partly cloudy, high 72°. Tonight, clear and cooler, low 43°. http://t.co/RMcYv6WbFE
— Friday, May 24, 2013 6:00 AM
nsj: RT @ScottSKOMO: For my out of town Tweeps who are curious, the bridge collapse is about 70 miles north of Downtown Seattle, but vital link …
— Friday, May 24, 2013 12:38 AM
nsj: RT @MatthewKeysLive: There have now been two aftershocks since the 5.7-magnitude quake north of Sacramento.
— Friday, May 24, 2013 12:18 AM
nsj: A "personal note" from @KOCOdamonlane about Moore, OK tornado. Hit his neighborhood hard. http://t.co/2RILwqa4ht
— Friday, May 24, 2013 12:02 AM
nsj: Magnitude 5.9 (prelim) earthquake along CA/NV border. Felt in Sacramento, Reno, elsewhere. http://t.co/1qJdxHkeZg
— Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:53 PM
nsj: RT @NWS_WCATWC: Tsunami Info Stmt: M5.6 085Mi NW Reno, Nevada 2047PDT May 23: Tsunami NOT expected #WCATWC
— Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:50 PM
nsj: RT @MatthewKeysLive: Definitely just felt that earthquake, lasted about 15 seconds or so, saw lamp shades moving.
— Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:49 PM
nsj: I've seen two credible folks on my Twitter feed talk about an earthquake in the western US.
— Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:49 PM