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DEEP END OF THE POOL
WILMINGTON has officially crowned 2018 as
the wettest year on record. The year that held
the previous record was 1877 when the rain-fall
amount was 83.65 inches. The National
Weather Service’s Wilmington office reports, as of 9 a.m. Saturday,
December 15, Wilmington measured 100 inches of rain for 2018.
And with about two weeks left in the year, it predicted the rain tally
to grow higher.
“With rain models forecast every five days, the wet pattern
will continue with more chances through the end of the year,”
Steve Pfaff, National Weather Service meteorologist, said during a
December 17 interview.
The 1877 rainfall record was broken on September 16 when
Hurricane Florence made landfall, officiating the new record three
whole months before the end of 2018. The top 17 wettest days
last year added up to 58.96 inches of rain. That’s more rainfall
than Wilmington gets in a typical year. More than one-fifth of the
rain that fell on Wilmington in 2018 fell during the hurricane. That
amount of rainfall in such a short amount of time only occurs about
once in every 1,000 years.
The National Weather Service hosts a webpage on which people
can see more rainfall statistics and track the amount of rainfall in
our area in real time.
For the latest rain totals, go to:
https://www.weather.gov/ilm/Raceto100
CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS
WRIGHTSVILLE Beach
Magazine’s Photo
Contest submission
deadline date has
been extended, but time is short to submit
entries. Prize-winning entries in each cat-egory
will be featured in the March issue as
well as considered for the cover. The pur-pose
of the contest is for readers to see our
region through the community’s lens.
We are seeking your best photographs
depicting the Cape Fear region in all its
beauty. Each entry must be entirely original
to the contest entrant and must be submit-ted
in a digital format, jpeg, tiff or bmp.
Amateur or professional categories are:
Landscape, Wildlife and People.
TOWN PRIDE
SHOW some town pride with an official
North Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles State of North Carolina
Wrightsville Beach license plate.
Customization choices include a First in
Freedom or First in Flight background and four
spaces for a personalized message. The suffix ‘WB’
will be the last two letters at the end of the plate.
Regular plates with no customization are $20 and
specialized plates are $50.
In order to have the plates printed by the
North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles,
Wrightsville Beach must submit a minimum of
300 payments for plates. The NCDMV will sub-mit
the request to the NC General Assembly for
approval. If approved, Wrightsville Beach will send
the actual purchaser applications to the NCDMV.
Finally, they will send each purchaser his or her
new Town of Wrightsville Beach license plate
directly within 180 days. However, if the applica-tion
is not approved, all fees paid will be refunded.
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WBM january 2019