The Night Sky in 2024 - Dr. Dan Caton

The Night Sky in 2024 - Dr. Dan Caton

Author: Mitchell County, NC Government September 2, 2025 Duration: 21:52
While the focus of our podcast has been the recovery from Helene‘s fury, there was more going on in the sky in 2024 than the hurricane. There was a solar eclipse, two auroras, and a comet that all appeared in our region last year. And the capper happened a month before Helene: a meteor exploded over Spruce Pine and Altapass setting off a big boom in the early morning hours of August 30 that startled a lot of folks. Today, Dr. Dan Caton of Appalachian State University joins us to talk about these events both from what happened and how historically events like these were treated in the past in terms of seeing them as omens. Of course, the events had nothing to do with Helene striking our area, but we thought you might like to take a look back at all the interesting events that appeared in our skieslast year.

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Winter Storm Update - Andrew Brewer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:30
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Jason Boyer - Weather Update for January 24, 2026 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Andrew Brewer and Allen Cook - Make Preparations for Winter Storm [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:41
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Andrew Brewer on Making Preparations for the Potential Winter Storm [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:37
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