Our friends at the North Carolina State Climate Office produced a quick overview of the rainfall from Tropical Storm Chantal and posted it to their blog earlier this week. Our son Evan, who lives near the Duke Forest in Durham, reported that their ground-floor apartment had water in it, and according to the report that area received 7.78 inches from the storm. The amount of rain that fell from the storm was unexpected but as they point out, in some ways it was similar to TS Debby last year, although Debby made landfall in early August, so this was much earlier. You can read more at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/07/rapid-reaction-tropical-storm-chantal-soaks-central-north-carolina/
