Citizen scientists with the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow (CoCoRaHS) network provide daily precipitation measurements. Volunteers’ knowledge about the local environment and how weather influences it can reveal much more than can be learned from recording daily rainfall alone. With all the extra “CoCoRaHS eyes and ears” out there, Condition Monitoring reports provide context to conditions as typically expressed by quantitative indicators and indices.

El Nino Impacts and Outlook – Eastern Region, October 2015.

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlooks Eastern Region September 2015. Climate, Drought, Impacts.

The State Climate Office of North Carolina has initiated a project to address needs regarding coastal zone fire risk. This effort includes installing monitors to collect data on soil moisture and weather at several locations in coastal North Carolina with organic peat soils. Monitoring data is integrated into an existing resource, the Fire Weather Intelligence Portal, to better address coastal fire conditions and risks.