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Hopefully we can squeeze out a couple days of the weekend with similar weather as today. I'd take that and run.

I like it. The models certainly agree. My temp is down to 55 as we approach the lunch hour, impressive.

What is the site for the daily PDO readings? I can’t remember what it is.

The funniest thing about this whole nonsense is many of these "adjustments" (I don't think they are actually adjustments; data is smoothed across county lines) result in warming the past in many counties.

Guidance has really converged now on 2-3"+ region wide of rain through Monday. Sucks that the holiday weekend is looking like a complete washout all 3 days but it's much needed. Nothing looks overtly heavy either, just 3 days of moderate steady on and off rain so it should just be a good groundwater replenishment.

2.5” of rain here yesterday. Far from a few showers. .

That’s wild! I wonder if the concrete dry ground coupled with the rates made it worse, kinda like flooding in the west

Pretty impressive decadal -PDO state we are in. I wonder if the mid-latitude low pressures will ever come back like they were for the 82-83 and 97-98 El Nino's.

Mod rain, ground soaking it up like a sponge. 54F/DP 51F

was raining very moderately last 30 minutes in the city..

central park will probably get more rain today then last night..

A few hours of showers once or twice a week will not reverse this long term drought.

Opinions on N half of ATL metro over next 4 days…should just about everyone expect 1-3”?

It finally got here overnight. It rained .25. Then it started back around 10 this morning and has been coming down pretty decently for the last hour. No thunder at all. I don't think it's thundered here that I remember, since spring started.

+7c is about to pop in the far eastern subsurface on TAO/Triton. That's the warmest so far, and the subsurface is still strengthening according to that.

I'm about 2 miles from DCA and they got a little under .5". I got 1.5-2 (bucket test). I need to replace my digital rain gauge.

Yeah that's the exact ramp I take to get on the highway going home each day. Thank God I decided to bail

Pretty amazing mostly whiff around Fallston last night - storms approached and then somehow reformed around the farm to the east around 5:00 - then lighter rain for a few hours. Wasn’t a shutout but was absolutely frustrating. So far today training achingly close just to the north of Fallston. I hope like hell it sinks south a bit this PM. We really need a sustained amount of rain on the fields at the farm.

Yeah weekend's shot anyway might as well get some good rain

Really nice rain this am. Short term best rain in months in NW burbs.

May 21 1960: A downpour at New Prague dumps 10 inches of rain in a 48 hour period. For Thursday, May 21, 2026 1860 - A swarm of tornadoes occurred in the Ohio Valley. Tornadoes struck the cities of Louisville, KY, Cincinnati, OH, Chillicothe, OH, and Marietta, OH, causing a million dollars damage. (David Ludlum) 1895 - The temperature at Norwalk, OH, dipped to 19 degrees to set a state record for the month of May. (The Weather Channel) 1896 - The mercury soared to 124 degrees at Salton, CA, to establish a U.S. record for May. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1980 - The temperature at Williston ND reached 102 degrees to set a record for May, and the next day the mercury hit 106 degrees. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Severe thunderstorms, developing along a sharp cold front crossing the central U.S., produced 60 mph winds and golf ball size hail at Sedalia, MO, and drenched Hagerstown, IN, with six inches of rain in one hour. Temperatures soared into the 90s ahead of the cold front. Paducah, KY, hit 94 degrees for the second day in a row. Light snow blanketed Montana, with three inches reported at Butte. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Severe thunderstorms swept across southern Louisiana during the morning hours spawning six tornadoes, and producing wind gusts to 88 mph at Jennings. Thunderstorms also produced five inches of rain in two hours at Lake Charles, causing local flooding. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Thunderstorms moving southeastward across the Central Plains Region into Oklahoma and Arkansas produced severe weather through the day and night. Thunderstorms spawned just four tornadoes, but there were 243 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Baseball size hail was reported at Augusta, KS, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 98 mph at Johnson, KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather across the southeastern U.S. for the second day in a row. Severe thunderstorms spawned five tornadoes, including one which injured a person at Richmond KY. There were eighty-seven reports of large hail or damaging winds, with hail three inches in diameter reported at Austin TX. Thunderstorms produced up to five inches of rain in Macon County GA, and heavy rains left nearly eight feet of water over roads near Stepstone KY. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

Might as well just need the drought, some moderate rain had the same effect when it’s 49 and raw as drizzle. .