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North Carolina Weather: Mountains, Beaches & Everything Between

Is it going to storm, swelter, or maybe something worse? The summers are like standing inside a BBQ pit and the winters nap under a quilt of pine. Here's what else is going on around North Carolina that will impact the time you spend outside.

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Rachael Riner

North Carolina Local Expert

Rachael, Our Local Expert Guiding Your Move

Some people collect stamps. Vanessa collects zip codes. After 13 moves (including one four-day, five-kid, one-puppy odyssey from Washington to North Carolina), she’s learned that relocation is equal parts logistics and comedy. Now settled in Winston-Salem, she’s fallen for the BBQ, the breeze, and how everyone waves like they’ve known you since kindergarten. Her claim to fame? She once sat on Shamu. Her real skill? Turning past moving trauma into local wisdom and relocation knowledge. As a Snappy Scout editor, she mixes mom-level multitasking with cross-country survival instincts to help newcomers settle into the Tar Heel life without losing their minds.

Written with local insight from Snappy Scout relocation experts

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My Favorite Thing About Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall in North Carolina

So random, but I get SO excited about North Carolina winters, and here's why: if a single snowflake falls, everything shuts down. No one goes to work. No one goes to school. No one is on the roads. We all just sit in our houses and drink hot chocolate and take a cozy snow day. This might not be every part of NC, but that's largely the case in our area.