Source: Jackson Parrish, WITN, 3/31/22

Farmers are getting ready to start planting for the year after weeks of dryness. Eastern North Carolina usually gets about four and a half inches of rain every March, but this March it has received about two inches below that. WITN Meteorologist, Phillip Williams, said the last time we saw steady rainfall, was back in January.

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