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Temperatures are expected to plunge into the teens this weekend. For those who have no place to go to stay warm, shelters in Charlotte are extending hours and expanding capacity.
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The drought conditions in North Carolina improved slightly after recent rains.
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Federal climate scientists say a strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is expected to bring a warmer, wetter winter to North Carolina.
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Temperatures have hit or exceeded 90 degrees for 18 of the past 25 days this month in Charlotte, according to the National Weather Service, and the average monthly temperature is about 1.5 degrees higher than normal.
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On top of the cancellations, another 4,700 flights were delayed nationwide on Monday as Texas and nearby states dealt with freezing temperatures and wintry precipitation.
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The scope of the storm, which has killed at least 34 across the U.S., has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.
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A video of a sports journalist in Iowa has racked up more than 20 million views on Twitter after he was recruited to help his station cover the icy storm for a day.
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Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States.
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A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes that wrecked homes and injured a handful of people in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Forecasters last fall predicted a warmer, drier winter for the Carolinas, and that's what we got. It's a trend dating from at least the 1970s. In fact, federal weather data show that winters are warming faster than any other season across the region.