Source: NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 10/3/18

Hurricane Florence's impacts on North Carolina were our main weather stories in September. This climate summary looks at the heavy rainfall, an early damage assessment, as well as our warm weather over the past month.

A Soggy September
We've already detailed the record-breaking rainfall from Hurricane Florence, and even with two dry weeks after the storm, September still finished among our wettest ever. The preliminary statewide average precipitation of 8.95 inches ranks as our 8th-wettestSeptember in the past 124 years.

That puts 2018 in good company among some memorably wet months. Among the seven wetter Septembers since 1895, all but one included rainfall from one or more tropical systems. Those include our wettest September on record from 1999 with rain from Dennis and Floyd, September 2004 that saw the remnants of Ivan and Jeanne move through, and September 1996 when Fran was the feature story.

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