Something in the air? Two WCCB-TV meteorologists have babies due just one week apart.

Whenever prompted, Nicole Madden and Kaitlin Wright — the morning and evening meteorologists, respectively, at WCCB-TV in Charlotte — are quick to point out all the weird, wild ways in which they have perceived their lives as being intertwined.

Sometimes, though, it seems like they’re reaching a little.

Nicole’s husband, Matt, was born at the same hospital in Detroit as Kaitlin ... but it’s a pretty big hospital, and they came into the world years apart.

Their husbands both have military backgrounds ... but Kaitlin’s was in the National Guard and Nicole’s was in the Army.

Nicole got married Aug. 7, 2021 and Kaitlin and her husband, Ryan, welcomed their first child, son Reece, nine days later, but ...

They could go on and on with these sorts of cute examples of quasi-connectedness. None of them, however, come anywhere remotely close to being as coincidental as this one: The two primary weather forecasters for Charlotte’s affiliate for The CW are currently both pregnant with children who — if their doctors’ predictions prove accurate — will arrive within just a week of one another next month.

“It’s mind-blowing,” Kaitlin says. “Quite crazy when you think of the logistics of that.”

People have joked about something having been in the water at WCCB last winter, although the two meteorologists find it even funnier when people cheekily suggest that there having been something in the air, given the women’s occupations.

“I know, can we pinpoint?” Kaitlin deadpans, when someone asks if they think there might actually be something to that something-in-the-air theory. Of course, she’s got a snappy retort: “Umm, yes. Valentine’s Day,” she replies, causing both of them to pitch forward with laughter.

Officially, Nicole is due on Nov. 14, with Kaitlin due to follow on Nov. 21, just two days before Thanksgiving. But — and how crazy would this be? — the women say there’s even a scenario in which their babies could be born on the very same day.

That scenario, appropriately, involves the weather.

Two announcements two days apart

Kaitlin made her on-air pregnancy announcement first, at the end of the WCCB nighttime show “News Edge,” during the second week of May.

With her husband by her side and their son, Reece, toddling around off-camera, she told viewers: “I know there are so many women and so many people in the world that really struggle to have babies. So I’m so blessed to continue to grow my family and to grow it with you guys at home.”

Two mornings later, Nicole shed a happy tear or two (as did anchor Rachael Maurer) while making her own pregnancy announcement on WCCB’s “News Rising” show. “I’ve been a little more nervous to kind of share,” she said. Then, after a quick, cheerful reference to Kaitlin’s announcement, Nicole mentioned herself being nervous three more times in less than 20 seconds.

And there was a good explanation for that anxiousness.

‘I didn’t want to jinx anything’

Nicole learned in early February that she’d had a miscarriage. Kaitlin was one of the few people who knew.

Nicole didn’t intend to tell her. Her experience was — as it is for so many women — intensely emotionally difficult. She isn’t known for calling in sick, though, so when she did, Kaitlin reached out to check up on her and Nicole wound up confiding in her colleague. It’s something Nicole has never shared with viewers.

Needless to say, when Nicole found out she was pregnant again late the following month, she was worried about announcing too soon.

“I didn’t want to jinx anything,” she recalls.

But she was in a bit of an awkward position: As WCCB’s chief meteorologist, Nicole creates the schedules for the three-person weather team; and early-spring is when the station tries to get a handle on who can cover what holidays for the year; and although Nicole knew she wasn’t going to be able to work Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Year’s Day, she also wasn’t ready to make an announcement yet.

Meanwhile, Kaitlin had just learned she was pregnant, too, and she also thought it was premature to say anything. So she delayed responding to Nicole’s emails about the holiday schedule for a week, then for another.

Midway through the week after that, Kaitlin knew she couldn’t put Nicole off any longer.

She recalls picking up the phone to call her, and she recalls dreading it — “knowing what she went through,” Kaitlin says now. “So many women do struggle with infertility. And I felt bad because, like, here I am popping out babies. It’s hard to put into words. I just wasn’t really truly thinking about me. I wanted her to be OK and not be upset.”

Kaitlin took a deep breath before telling Nicole her news that day. “I want to tell you this, but I also feel really bad telling you this. I know you are asking about holiday schedules. Unfortunately — but also very fortunately — I’m not gonna be there for the holidays.

“Because I’m expecting another baby.”

Nicole was touched by how Kaitlin handled everything. “It was very sweet. And I felt that, too, when you were saying it,” she says to Kaitlin as they recall that day, “that you were trying to hold back. But I didn’t want you to hold back your excitement either.”

As she was offering congratulations over the phone to Kaitlin back in April, though, Nicole was also quickly trying to decide whether to now come clean, herself. She hadn’t even told her own parents yet.

She took a deep breath of her own. “Well, nobody knows this,” Nicole told Kaitlin, “but I’m pregnant, too.”

Kaitlin couldn’t have been happier for Nicole. For the next several minutes, the conversation percolated with excitement as they filled each other in on how their pregnancies were coming along so far, and as they marveled at the fact that their due dates were so close together.

When they finally came back around to the original purpose of the discussion, however, they were struck by the realization that the holiday schedule was going to be trickier than they could have ever imagined going into the call.

Recalls Nicole, with a laugh, “I think we were just like, ‘What are they gonna do?’”

Keeping an eye out for a storm

It’s all going to work out.

Nicole and Kaitlin are both hoping to continue serving their shows till the last possible minute and then will each take 12 weeks off to enjoy their infants, during which time WCCB’s weekend meteorologist James Scott will swing over to do weekday mornings in Nicole’s place. Reg Taylor, who formerly was the station’s chief meteorologist, will temporarily fill in for Kaitlin at night; and a pair of part-time fill-ins are expected to cover James Scott’s weekend shifts.

(James also has gotten all the other holidays off this year in anticipation of having to work most or all of the big ones for Kaitlin and Nicole.)

For the record, this will be just the second time since Kaitlin and Nicole started working together three years ago that they’ve both been off at the same time.

The first came in August 2021, when Nicole was finishing up her honeymoon. “She already had that time blocked off,” Kaitlin recalls, “but I’m like, ‘Ugh. Can’t hold the baby in any longer!’ And it was, I mean, in the middle of August — hurricane season. I think that’s why I went into labor. There was a storm over us. Low pressure tends to induce things sometimes.”

Wait, is that true? Can a storm actually cause a pregnant woman to go into labor? “Yeah,” Kaitlin insists, “it is real. It is.”

And while at this point they can’t predict the weather quite that far into the future, rest assured that these two meteorologists will be looking for signs of a potential drop in barometric pressure as their due dates draw nearer.

For signs of a perfect storm, however unlikely, that could send them to their respective delivery rooms on the exact same day.

“I mean, that,” Kaitlin says, “would be insane.”