If you’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas, they won’t come true this year in North Carolina.
If you lived in coastal North Carolina 35 years ago, the tale was very different.
A rare late-December snowfall in 1989 dumped up to 20 inches of snow just north of Wilmington from December 22 to 24. Much of southeastern North Carolina had never seen so much snowfall.
The heaviest snow fell near the coast. Raleigh received merely a trace of snow from that storm. Charlotte, Greensboro, and the mountains did not experience any.
Wilmington had all-time low temperatures shortly after the hurricane. On Christmas morning, the temperature plummeted to zero.