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Carolina Curious: Kids ask why the weather changes so often in such little time and more

Sixth graders at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem are curious about the weather in the area. They're asking questions like: "Why doesn’t it ever seem to snow anymore? Do we get tornadoes? Does all the summer heat lead to droughts?"

In the latest installment of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz took these questions — along with an umbrella — to the experts at the North Carolina State Climate Office.

The office is located in one of the research buildings on North Carolina State University’s campus in Raleigh. 

It’s about a two hour drive from Winston-Salem, and on a July morning, heavy rain poured down the whole way there. But Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis doesn’t need to step outside, or even glance out a window to know that. 

“So yeah, I can see right along I-40, there's all the rain that you had to drive through," Davis said pointing to on

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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