Source: Corey Davis, NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 9/7/22


Bookended by heat, August wrapped up a warm summer statewide, while scattered showers brought our ongoing drought to an end. We also turn to the tropics and review a rare storm-free August.

A Warm Summer Wraps Up
A hot start and end to August were balanced by cooler mid-month weather, but it was still a warmer-than-normal month overall. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) reports a preliminary statewide average temperature last month of 76.6°F, which ranks as our 45th-warmest August since 1895.

Under the control of high pressure centered over the Carolinas, early August saw a continuation of the hot and humid dog-day weather from July. High temperatures reached the upper 90s on August 9 and 10.

Our ECONet station at Jockey’s Ridge State Park hit 97.5°F on August 9, which is the warmest temperature recorded there since the station was installed earlier this year, and more than 10 degrees above normal for that part of the northern Outer Banks.
After that, heat relief arrived by August 12, as a pair of cold fronts moving in from the northwest packed a one-two punch of needed rainfall and cooler, less humid air.

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