The real-life weather can have a huge effect on your fantasy football success. The next time you're crunching the stats, don't forget the real world atmospheric science that could put a wrinkle in that next NFL game.  

This week the Carolina Weather Group is talking with the Fantasy Football Weather Guys. These professional meteorologists provide their own weekly updates on which games could be impacted by weather and what that might mean for some of the expert-generated fantasy football player projections.  

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Animals are on the move to escape rising temperatures and increased floods and drought, but some could find refuge in North Carolina's Sandhills and Southern Blue Ridge, according to a new map developed by scientists at The Nature Conservancy.

Plus one Pew study found the nation's water systems - including those in the Carolinas - are on the cusp of needing $100 billion worth of repairs and maintenance. 

Note: The reports you hear here are  provided by the Public News Service, which seeks funding and contribution from partners including the Resource Institute and the Nature Conservancy; both of which you hear from in this reporting. 

Josh Wurman and team invented the DOW, the doppler on wheels. Famed by his appearances on the show "Storm Chasers" and other television shows, Wurman is an atmospheric scientist who runs the Center for Severe Weather Research. This week, Josh joins the Carolina Weather Group to discuss his research, inventions, and storm chases towards severe weather and tornadoes.  

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This week, we're tracking Hurricane Delta, which has weakened to a Category 1 storm after making landfall Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Delta will strengthen - possibly up to Category 3 status - over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall along the gulf coast Friday.

From there, Delta will be onshore, where it will weaken as it brings rains across the Southeast -- including in the Carolinas. While what's left of Delta's low pressure circulation will remain outside the Carolinas, several inches of rain will fall over the holiday weekend. Rainfall totals as high as 4 inches are possible especially across the higher elevations of the North Carolina mountains, foothills, and South Carolina upstate.

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This week we're announcing new public, and supporter-driven, projects that will give you more of what you love.

Some are available now, and some will be available in the near future.

New initiative includes early access to the Carolina Weather Net, our non-stop channel dedicated to all things Carolina Weather 24/7.

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It's been 31 years since Hurricane Hugo made its historic landfall in South Carolina, bringing hurricane damage throughout the Carolinas. This week we revisit our Hurricane Hugo special, which originally aired in 2019 for the 30th anniversary.

Tropical Storm Sally has come ashore and is forecast to bring heavy rains to North Carolina and South Carolina Thursday and Friday. There will be a risk of flash flooding and urban flooding caused by the heavy rains and water runoff. Sally will be a post-tropical depression by the time it arrives in the Carolinas. A few brief tornadoes are also possible.

Join the Carolina Weather Group as they look ahead to Thursday and Friday's severe weather threat. The audio of his program was captured during a live stream Wednesday night on the Carolina Weather Group YouTube, Facebook, Periscope, and Twitch platforms.

Our guests this week include Robbie Munroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina; Brad Panovich, Chief Meteorologist of WCNC Charlotte; and Tim Buckley, Chief Meteorologist of WFMY News 2 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

As of the late night advisory from the National Hurricane Center Sunday, there is one hurricane, one tropical storm, two depressions, and 3 other areas of interest in the Atlantic Ocean. Most of them will disappear without any impacts, but a few could be the real thing.

One of the storms expected to make a major impact is Tropical Storm Sally. The storm will be landfall as a hurricane Tuesday in Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi. A 170-miles of coast, including New Orleans and Mobile, should be preparing for life threatening conditions.

Hurricane Paulette is impacting Bermuda on this Monday.

And Tropical Depression Twenty will soon become Teddy, who in the coming days will strengthen to a major hurricane. In the days to come, it remains out at sea and away from any harmful impact. In the long term, the storm requires monitoring and tracking.

This amount of activity in the Atlantic Ocean is a lot, but not completely unexpected. September 10 was the statistic peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season -- and September and October remain the most likely times for the Carolinas to see an impactful hurricane. The evidence is in the history books, which is where Chris Mulcahy from WCNC Charlotte's First Warn Storm Team went. He tells us that this time of year is when North Carolina and South Carolina sees the worst hurricanes.

Watch and read more of Chris' findings on wcnc.com

Our lighthearted interview series continues with Jason Boyer and Ryan Coulter, meteorologists with WLOS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina.  Plus the latest on the tropics. We're at the peak of hurricane season and we're tracking six disturbances, including a potential disturbance right off the Carolina coast. Tropical storms Paulette and Rene remain westwardly in the Atlantic Ocean.