Source: NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 3/25/20


Heading into the winter, our weather predictions were literally up in the air -- or perhaps out to sea -- as few large-scale atmospheric patterns, including the status of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, offered many helpful clues about how the season might play out.

Four months later, we've emerged on the other side of an extremely mild winter that, despite a few flirtations with dryness across eastern North Carolina, ended up being wet but lacking in much frozen precipitation.

In this post, we'll review the statistics and snow totals from this past winter, look back at those pre-season predictions, and look ahead to the rest of the spring.

For the full report, click here.