Tonight, the weather turns much more active. Showers and a few thunderstorms will become more numerous through the evening, and some of these could produce some pretty heavy rain. It won’t rain nonstop for everyone, but there will be enough activity around that you’ll want to keep the umbrella close if you’re heading out. Temperatures will settle into the upper 60s and low 70s overnight.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a low-magnitude earthquake was felt in parts of the North Carolina mountains Sunday morning.
Eat, drink, and be berry.
Dangerous heat will spread across the Carolinas today with heat index values climbing above 105.
Hurricane Beryl swept ashore as a Category 1 storm with heavy rains and powerful winds, and knocking out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses as fast-rising waters caused street flooding and prompted rescues.
Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, TX as a category 1 hurricane and is bringing life-threatening storm surge, damaging wind and flooding rain to SE Texas.
The newest and most advanced weather satellite, GOES-U, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center last week. It is the 4th and final installment of the GOES-R series of geostationary weather satellites.
The plane crash killed 37 passengers after getting caught in a microburst, crashing just half a mile from the runway at Charlotte-Douglas airport on July 2, 1994.
Hurricane Beryl is now the earliest calendar year Atlantic Category 5 hurricane on record.
