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The weather along the Carolina coast is often pleasant in the fall. We have cool nights and warm days.

Sometimes we go through a few rainy days. Dampness along the coast seems to take its toll on those of us living here. Most of us came here for the blue skies and warm days not rain.

While our heat pumps have run some during the last few days, we have not used our gas logs in a few weeks.

The gas logs are one of the first things we turn to in order to drive out the dampness when things head downhill.

Next we resort to warm meals, and we switch to blue jeans instead of shorts. Then we throw on a sweatshirt, and we are winter ready.

One of our favorite meals during cold spells is homemade clam chowder.

It usually warms me up quickly. It is like one of those soup commercials when you warm from the inside out.

From watching clouds and the weather reports, it ls seems that we are in for a weather change. We are expected to get rain tonight and tomorrow. We could get up to two inches.

Then we get a break and some more rain on Friday.

I would like to hope we get some nice warm rain, but we are already about ten degrees too cool for that.

With temperatures approaching seventy we are not going to suffer too much. However, it looks like after the rain clears out that our high temperatures will only be in the fifties.

I guess I should go buy some cans of clams. For the latest on coastal North Carolina, visit my coastal paradise website.