Thieves recently stole the “Welcome to the Outer Banks” sign heading into the Cape Hatteras National Seashore from Nags Head. The Outer Banks Scenic Byway sign welcoming visitors heading south from Whalebone Junction to Bodie Island vanished sometime last week, said Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy, a local journalist and community activist who served as chair of […]
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After a bout of the winds has scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rocket from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore on three straight nights, it was clouds that blocked a Tuesday launch. The next attempt begins at 8:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. The first three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper-level […]
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A bout of the winds have again scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rockets from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore. The next attempt begins at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. Like the last three nights, the launch was postponed due to upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe […]
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Want to watch a rocket launch? NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore will send a suborbital sounding rocket into space Saturday evening, and it should be visible across much of the eastern United States. The mission to explore energy transport is set to launch at 8:02 p.m. Saturday, May 8, which a […]
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For the first time, NOAA is launching a national rip current forecast model aimed at saving lives of beach-goers around the country — and the model was developed on the beaches of Kill Devil Hills. The agency says the new model can predict the hourly probability of rip currents along U.S. beaches up to six […]
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The World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee has retired 2019’s Dorian and 2020’s Laura, Eta and Iota from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destruction they caused. The committee has also decided that the Greek alphabet will not be used in future because it “creates a distraction from the […]
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(Reprinted from OBX Today) A gold wedding band found in the sand on Hatteras Island back in 2019 is now back on the finger of its owner. Kathie Menuet discovered the ring Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, between Ramp 43 and The Point out surf fishing with her husband Robert on their last day of vacation. […]
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Did you lose your wedding ring near The Point at Cape Hatteras National Seashore? A Northern Virginia couple found a men’s gold band on the beach back in 2019, and they’ve been trying to return it to its owner ever since. If the ring is yours, you lost it on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, between […]
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It’s been a year since the “Ocean Pursuit,” a commercial scallop boat, wrecked in Oregon Inlet. The 73-foot-long steel-hull ship ran into shallow water along the northern edge of the navigation channel on March 1, 2020 and the crew had to be airlifted to safety by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter. Since then, the Ocean Pursuit […]
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A three-stage suborbital sounding rocket was launched Wednesday around sunset for the Department of Defense from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia Eastern Shore, and produced a cloud that looked like cotton candy in the southeastern sky. The launch was designed to study ionization in space just beyond the reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. After […]
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