Source: NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 1/3/19


Precipitation continued to be the main story in North Carolina's weather, including a record wet December that -- despite a substantial wintry event early in the month -- was also a bit warmer than normal. December's rainfall wrapped up a wet year that also set records across the state.

Snowy to Start, Rainy for the Rest
We didn't have a white Christmas, but it most certainly was a wet December. The preliminary statewide average precipitation of 7.98 inches was more than double the 1981 to 2010 average of 3.62 inches, and it became our new wettest December on record since 1895, topping the amount recorded in 2015.

Many weather stations set local records for their wettest December as well. Just to name a few, Asheville (10.87 inches), Cape Hatteras (10.92 inches), Marion (13.80 inches), and Morganton (10.97 inches) all had their wettest December out of more than 100 years of record at each site.

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