Raleigh North Carolina News

At Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Monday, 47 flights were delayed and 33 flights were canceled as Tropical Storm Debby pounds Florida. Debby could impact North Carolina’s coast by late Monday, and the Triangle will start to see rain on Tuesday, according to WRAL meteorologists. State and local agencies are preparing for the storm’s arrival, with the city of Raleigh’s Emergency Management Services team lowering lake levels, allowing the bodies of water to hold more water…

Crews in Raleigh began preparing for Hurricane Debby over the weekend. Heavy rainfall is the major concern for this area, which is why the city began lowering lakes. Raleigh’s Emergency Management and Stormwater teams have been working closely with emergency management and made the call early to lower city lakes. This allows them to store more water and helps reduce flooding concerns along Walnut Creek.  The Carolina coast is already seeing the impacts of Debby. Red…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Debby reached the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday, bringing with it the potential for record-setting rains, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it moves slowly across the northern part of the state before stalling over the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 storm near Steinhatchee, a tiny community in northern Florida of less than 1,000 residents on Florida’s…

Several trees fell and heavy rain flooded roads this weekend as heavy rain moved through central North Carolina. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning Sunday night for Wake County as several roadways became submerged in water. Multiple roads in Raleigh, including South Saunders Street and Cutler Street were under water as the rain kept falling. Sunday wasn’t the only day rain came through central North Carolina. On Saturday, heavy rain drenched North…

Tropical Depression 4 formed Friday night in the Atlantic Ocean, and much of North Carolina is in its path. Model plots show the system impacting Florida this weekend and North Carolina next week. 5 a.m. update: Tracking the tropics: Aug. 2, 2024 5 a.m. Saturday: Lots of rain likely by mid-week While the new models show an increased threat to North Carolina over previous models, it’s too soon to know the exact timing or impact…

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A person was killed in one of several wildfires threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, authorities said Wednesday, as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S. The death came in a fire near the town of Lyons that blackened more than two square miles (six square kilometers) by Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The person’s remains were discovered in one of five homes that burned, Boulder County Sheriff…

As dozens of wildfires rage across the American West, North Carolina firefighters are stepping up to help. The North Carolina Forest Service has a total of 87 personnel on the ground at wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Colorado. The largest group – 69 firefighters total – is in Oregon. “They’re dealing with some pretty extreme fire weather at times,” said Adam Greene, an Edgecombe County ranger. “I would say things are happening a little…

COHASSET, Calif. (AP) — In the small forest community of Cohasset, Ron Ward watched as flames hundreds of feet high from California’s deadly Park Fire approached his family ranch. He had lost insurance coverage on it just a month earlier as companies increasingly drop California homeowners due to the growing risk of wildfires in the state, in part due to hotter weather and arid conditions caused by climate change. So he and his son Ethan…

Typhoon Gaemi churned over southeastern China on Friday, with the local authorities warning that the storm, which left a trail of destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines, would bring torrential rain and flooding. Gaemi made landfall Thursday night in China’s Fujian Province, where the local government shut down schools and nonessential businesses and evacuated more than 290,000 people by Friday morning. The international airport in Fujian’s Quanzhou prefecture canceled more than 160 flights because of…

The Durham Police responded to a crash on Monday afternoon that resulted in a vehicle being submerged in water. At around 3:30 p.m., officers arrived at the scene of a vehicle crash in the 4000 block of Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard, where at least one vehicle was found submerged in water. The Durham Fire Department and EMS were also on the scene and were able to rescue the driver from the vehicle. No serious injuries…

The Durham Police responded to a crash on Monday afternoon that resulted in a vehicle being submerged in water. At around 3:30 p.m., officers arrived at the scene of a vehicle crash in the 4000 block of Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard, where at least one vehicle was found submerged in water. The Durham Fire Department and EMS were also on the scene and were able to rescue the driver from the vehicle. No serious injuries…

Rain poured in a Garner family’s home on Monday just a few days after a tree fell on their roof over the weekend. Crews spent hours on Monday removing a poplar tree from the roof of a townhouse near North Hills. Across the Triangle, crews were cleaning up other damage after storms with strong winds and rain knocked down trees across the Triangle over the weekend and on Monday. A tree fell early Monday on Brandywine Road…

One year ago, a destructive EF-3 tornado hit North Carolina north of Rocky Mount. The tornado touched down on July 19, 2023, around 12:30 p.m. in the Battleboro and Dortches communities in Nash County. The tornado began as a thunderstorm warning in Edgecombe, Halifax and Nash counties. Thunderstorm warnings were issued at 12:27 p.m., and the tornado warning was issued about five minutes later. An estimated 90 homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed, including…

A Raleigh business owner said he lost his livelihood during Friday’s flooding across the state. The parking lot of Lamar PC was submerged and blocked off with caution tape Friday afternoon as a heavy downpour during a WRAL Weather Alert Day moved through Wake County. “As long as water gets involved, there’s nothing you can do,” owner Adrien Lamartiniere said. Lamartiniere said he ran Lamar PC for over a decade but is unsure if he…

Colorado State University’s meteorology department released an update to their 2024 hurricane season forecast this week. The update increased the forecast and calls for “an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024”. The updated CSU forecast calls for a well-above normal number of named storms (25 – that’s the whole list of names), more hurricanes than usual, and double the normal number of major hurricanes (category 3-5). This year’s updated forecast calls for an above-normal…