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  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.

  • Hurricane Center
  • Video: Inside a hurricane
  • Hurricanes 101

  Updated April 18 | Read Blog Post
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  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.

  • Rebuilding NC 12: Saving a vital link or throwing money in the ocean?
  • Images: NC 12 damage after Hurricane Sandy
  • NC 12 storm repairs

  Updated November 19, 2012 | Read Story | 76 comments
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  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.

  • Hurricane Sandy recovery: How to help
  • Samaritan's Purse reaches out to Sandy-ravaged victims
  • Billy Graham's evangelist son visits Sandy survivors

  Updated November 14, 2012 | Read Story | 16 comments
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  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.

  • Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy?
  • CHAT: Greg Fishel explores hurricanes and climate change
  • Hurricanes 101

  Updated November 12, 2012 | Read Story | 89 comments
• New model could improve hurricane forecasting

  New hurricane forecasting model uses more variables and is 15 percent more accurate than current methods, researchers said.

  • Link to 'Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery' journal

  Updated November 1, 2012 | Read Story