Raleigh North Carolina News

The town of Pittsboro has canceled its Christmas parade on Sunday due to a threat of severe weather, and Tarboro’s parade has been rescheduled for Dec. 17. Sunday is a WRAL Weather Alert Day due to a Level 1 risk for severe storms and flooding. Winds could gust to 25 mph through most of the day and pick up to 40 mph in the evening and nighttime hours. There are many other parades planned this…

Thursday marks the end of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. This season had 20 storms overall and 19 named storms, which is the fourth-highest total since 1950: Arlene Bret Cindy Don Emily Franklin Gert Harold Idalia Jose Katia Lee Margo Nigel Ophelia Philippe Rina Sean Tammy Tropical Storms 2023: 20 Average: 14 Hurricanes 2023: Seven Average: Seven Major hurricanes 2023: Three Average: Three It was an above average season thanks to a strong El Niño…

If you lived in Raleigh in November of 1988, you remember the tornado. The Kmart was flattened. Asbury United Methodist Church was destroyed. Some locals still remember crouching in their bathtubs while the walls shook around them. I was only five years old. I remember walking outside that evening, pointing at the clouds and saying to my mom, “They look weird. They look scary.” I didn’t know it meant a tornado was coming – but…

A Navy veteran and his wife who lost their home during the summer due to devastation from an EF3 tornado are thankful this Thanksgiving season. Michael Poythress and Debbie Moore have a new home exactly where their own home was thanks to the Twin County Tornado Fund, a collaboration between the United Way and Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce. “They came forward and said, ‘We want to help you buy a new home,’” Poythress said….

A Navy veteran and his wife who lost their home during the summer due to devastation from an EF3 tornado are thankful this Thanksgiving season. Michael Poythress and Debbie Moore have a new home exactly where their own home was thanks to the Twin County Tornado Fund, a collaboration between the United Way and Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce. “They came forward and said, ‘We want to help you buy a new home,’” Poythress said….

A wildfire has burned 750 acres in Stokes County, but recent rainfall has changed the game, helping containment jump to 41%. “The whole situation has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours,” said Jimmy Holt, a Guilford County park ranger with the NC Forestry Service. “This is really a blessing.” Holt said about an inch of rain fell overnight with more expected throughout the day, giving firefighters who have been working since Saturday night a…

Record travel numbers are expected at Raleigh-Durham International Airport this Thanksgiving holiday – but increased numbers combined with severe storms around the country could make for messy holiday travel. More than 286,000 people are expected to pass through RDU this week. The airport is expecting this year’s Thanksgiving travel rush to surpass the record it saw in 2019, beating out pre-pandemic numbers. More than 143,000 people are forecast to pass through security checkpoints between Wednesday,…

Record travel numbers are expected at Raleigh-Durham International Airport this Thanksgiving holiday – but increased numbers combined with severe storms around the country could make for messy holiday travel. More than 286,000 people are expected to pass through RDU this week. The airport is expecting this year’s Thanksgiving travel rush to surpass the record it saw in 2019, beating out pre-pandemic numbers. More than 143,000 people are forecast to pass through security checkpoints between Wednesday,…

A man was arrested and a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed as a wildfire burns in western North Carolina amid the state’s ongoing drought. North Carolina joins a growing list of states grappling with the escalating wildfire. A burn ban is currently in effect for 30 counties, and firefighters from across the region have mobilized to combat the ongoing wildfire in the western part of the state. WMBF reports Duff Swan, 51,…

A man was arrested and a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed as wildfires burn in western North Carolina amid the state’s ongoing drought. North Carolina joins a growing list of states grappling with the escalating wildfire. A burn ban is currently in effect for 30 counties, and firefighters from across the region have mobilized to combat the ongoing wildfire in the western part of the state. WMBF reports Duff Swan, 51, of…

North Carolina joins a growing list of states grappling with the escalating wildfire. A burn ban is currently in effect for 30 counties, and firefighters from across the region have mobilized to combat the ongoing wildfire in the western part of the state. The following fires have contributed to the ongoing wildfire crisis in NC: Poplar Drive fire in Henderson County The Poplar Drive Fire in Henderson County is now 90% contained and remains 434 acres. Percent…

North Carolina joins a growing list of states grappling with the escalating wildfire. A burn ban is currently in effect for 30 counties, and firefighters from across the region are mobilizing to combat three significant blazes in the western part of the state. Also contributing to the wildfire crisis is the ongoing drought. “[The] drought is statewide but more severe in the western part of the state,” said Philip Jackson with the North Carolina Forest…

North Carolina joins a growing list of states grappling with the escalating wildfire. A burn ban is currently in effect for 30 counties, and firefighters from across the region are mobilizing to combat three significant blazes in the western part of the state. Fire departments within our viewing area are actively engaged in the firefighting efforts. Crews from Hillsborough are currently on the ground, while firefighters from Rocky Mount are set to deploy on Thursday….

Wildfires caused by drought, warmer-than-normal temperatures and, in a few cases, possibly arson have been ablaze for days in several Southern states. The threat has led officials to enact burn bans and to stop issuing safe-burn permits. November is the peak month of the fire season across the country, but certain areas, including parts of the Southeast, are expected to be at an “above-normal” risk, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Mississippi, for example,…

A wildfire burning in Henderson County has burned 431 acres of land in the Edneyville community, and only 5% of it is contained. The Poplar Drive Fire burning in western North Carolina is now more than 10 times larger than it was Friday night. On Sunday Chief Robert Griffin with the Edneyville Fire Department said the fire ballooned over the weekend and has burned around 430 acres. In the face of devasation, the volunteer response…