Monday could be the first of many days of cancelled classes in some eastern North Carolina public school systems as the cleanup continues for Hurricane Irene. Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Edgecombe, Halifax, Jones, Nash-Rocky Mount, Northampton, and Wayne county schools won’t be in secession Monday. Many of the systems were in areas without electricity and won’t […]

As you can see, the Category 2 hurricane was relentlessly bearing down on the East Coast. According to NASA, satellite data shows Hurricane Irene’s current diameter at 510 miles, “roughly 1/3 the length of the US Atlantic coastline.” The GOES-13 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) is parked in a geostationary orbit, positioned over the equator at […]

Hurricane Irene’s main thrust was still a day away from North Carolina but heightened waves began hitting the state’s Outer Banks and rain began falling in the southeastern part of the state Friday as the storm continued trudging toward the East Coast. National Weather Service meteorologist Rachel Zouzias said rain carried by Irene’s outer bands […]

The first sign of Hurricane Irene in North Carolina could come Friday night as tropical storm force winds and rain move along the coast, some of which could be felt in the Triangle. The weather will turn more serious late Saturday and early Sunday as Irene moves along the Outer Banks as a Category 3 […]

It’s looking more likely that the rapidly intensifying Hurricane Irene, which has already cut a destructive path through the Caribbean, will impact North Carolina and possibly make landfall in the state this weekend, WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said Tuesday. Predictions by the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Irene was likely to become a […]