Six months after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of Western North Carolina, residents are undertaking the painstaking task of rebuilding their lives by hand. Ashe County officials acknowledge the ...

Carter Francois looks across a half-rebuilt Alpine Inn and says without bravado: “I’m kind of proud of myself.” He should be.

North Carolina State University researchers are forecasting a near-average hurricane season for 2025. Released Tuesday, NC State researchers predict the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will produce ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will see 12 to 15 named storms forming in the Atlantic basin, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. The Atlantic basin includes the entire ...

North Carolina State University forecasts 12 to 15 named storms in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, slightly above the long-term average.

Lian Xie, professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at NC State, said the long-term average of named storms is 11 (when looking at data from 1951 to 2023) and the more recent average (1994 ...