From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Flooding rains and deadly rip currents into this weekend continue to be the primary issue for northeastern North Carolina from what is now Tropical Storm Debby. The center of the fourth tropical cyclone of 2024 came ashore as a hurricane Monday morning in the Big Bend area of Florida, and has since been […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The war of words, and differing strategies, over a 2024 recreational flounder season in North Carolina waters continued this week, as the head of the commission that oversees the state’s coastal waters said they will be sticking to their original plans of keeping the fishery closed. Rob Bizzell, chair of the N.C. Marine […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com A disturbance making its way across the central tropical Atlantic is being watched by weather forecasters for potential development, but it’s still too soon to know exactly where it will go or how strong it may get. The National Hurricane Center on Monday afternoon gave the system, which is expected to interact with […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The battle over whether or not there will be a recreational flounder season in North Carolina waters this year intensified last week, as the state Wildlife Resources Commission voted to open a four-day season in waters under their jurisdiction in September. In a letter from Wildlife Resources Chairman Monty Crump to Marine Fisheries […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com After the driest month of June on record, July may break records for one of the wettest across Northeastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks as a stagnant weather pattern is forecast to continue the rest of this week. But there may be a bit of relief on the horizon, as drier conditions […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Contractors have completed the installation of eleven test pilings into the bottom of the Alligator River that are the first step in the replacement of the U.S. 64 bridge between Dare and Tyrrell counties which could start by the end of this year. Problems with the draw span of the 64-year-old Lindsay C. […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The recent heavy rainfall has helped bring some parts of eastern North Carolina out of drought conditions, but the rest of the state continues to dry out even further. According to Thursday’s update of the N.C. Drought Monitor map, Currituck, Camden, and parts of Pasquotank and Gates counties are the only parts of […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Median sales prices for homes on the Outer Banks neared record highs in the second quarter of 2024, while total inventory for the first half of the year is recovering. According to the latest MLS report from the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, the residential median sales price for the months of April, […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com For the second straight week in a row, the first half of the week has been dominated by heat, and the second half will be dominated by rain. And if the forecast holds, drought conditions that have been deepening across North Carolina may get washed away, at least in the eastern half of […]
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From SamWalkerOBXNews.com With erosion occurring more rapidly than expected off Buxton, the Dare County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to shift the next beach renourishment project to 2026. Buxton’s stretch of beach took a beating this past fall and winter from offshore hurricanes and repeated nor’easters, including one of the worst incidents of erosion since […]
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