Flash flood watch and wind advisory end
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- After days of wind and rain, weather-weary North Carolinians can look forward to some sunshine!
ABC11 Chief Meteorologist Chris Hohmann said we've had 12 days in row of measurable precipitation at Raleigh Durham International Airport. That's a new record. As of Sunday, 7.65 inches of rain fell at RDU Airport.
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A big change in our weather will be underway by tonight as a drier air mass finally reaches into our region. The sky will start to clear. That allows temperatures to fall well down into the 50s.
Meanwhile, numerous roads in Brunswick and New Hanover counties in southeastern North Carolina are impassable as a storm system that inundated South Carolina moved north.
On its Facebook page, the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office listed almost 30 roads that were impassable. New Hanover County listed on its website about 25 closed roads.
The rainstorm around the Southeast has drawn tropical moisture from offshore that's linked up with an area of low pressure and a slow-moving front.
After days of rain, the soggy ground caused trees to fall, bringing down power lines with them. Outages were reported across the state due to weather.
WATCH: Trees fall in the Triangle
Two weather-related deaths have been reported in our state since the storms started.
The first death happened in Cumberland County when a tree fell on a car as it was going down Interstate 95.
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The second death involved a crash with other cars during a heavy downpour in Jackson County.
Further south, the South Carolina Department of Public safety reported Monday that there has been 9 weather-related deaths in the state. South Carolina's capital has received nearly 17 inches of rain in 17 hours, and it was still raining Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The state is enduring its worst rains "in 1,000 years," Gov. Nikki Haley said, urging residents to stay off the roads as conditions were "changing by the minute," with roads flooding and rivers at their highest levels in decades.
Fort Bragg is serving as Initial Staging Base for FEMA. Officials say 150 trucks are ready, and 30 are on the way to transport aid to flooded area down south. The North Carolina National Guard is also offering aid.
"We currently have 76 soldiers and airmen on the ground across the East, mainly in Goldsboro, Kingston and Elizabethtown," said Lt. Col. Timothy D. Aiken, Director of Joint Operations with the North Carolina National Guard.
The National Guard has sent aircrafts with helicopter aquatic rescue teams to perform swift water rescues in hard-hit parts of South Carolina.
"We've also dispatched three liaison officers down there from us," Aiken said. "South Carolina has pushed two back up to us. So we have coordination. Even though the hurricane didn't make landfall there was so much water that was being pumped in, caused this flooding. Right now, we're probably expecting the rivers to continue to crest throughout the day .. our folks will stay on for the next 24-48 hours just in case they're needed or in case they need to be pushed South, down to SC. No, we're not completely out of this yet."
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Back here in, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said during the continuous rain that crops were being impacted.
Troxler said that fields were soaked over the weekend, and fresh fruits are being damaged because of the rain.
He said field crops were also being affected because farmers can't get into the fields to harvest them. He said some of the apples in Henderson County were starting to split open because they're waterlogged, and that the longer harvests are delayed, the more damage that will occur.
He said water coming in from the Atlantic Ocean was laden with salt, and that is detrimental to crops as well.
