Cape Fear Mercury

Tropical Storm Fay to become a hurricane. Via Reuters: Despite the mountainous terrain of Haiti, which had been expected to hamper the storm’s development, Fay held together quite well overnight...

Bertha is now a hurricane. If you recall, in 1996 Hurricane Bertha hit the lower NC coast and did some pretty nasty damage. Drove down the day after and there was a lot of erosion. She cleared the way...

Lian Xie, a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at N.C. State, and graduate student Elinor Keith said Wednesday that their forecasts call for 13 to 15 named storms in...

Got up early and watched fog rivers rolling from the little porch off our room off the Parkway.

Am recently returned from a long day in the upper mountain counties with a botanist friend. Posts coming about that, but first a few examples of this fall’s color and other sundries collected o...

Tropical storm Gabrielle (for now, it’s still subtropical) formed last night and is an immediate threat to the Outer Banks. A lot of big weather watchers are sniffing at the low winds, but don&#...