September 2026: Venus on Fire, Moonless Meteors, and Autumn Taking Over the Carolina Sky September in Carolina is a hinge. The heat is still here. The cicadas have not packed it in. The Piedmont can still hold onto a whole day’s worth of humidity after sunset, the coast can still throw haze across an otherwise clear horizon, and the mountains can still build their own weather while the rest of us are staring at a forecast that swears the sky is empty. But the night knows the