BooneWX

Thursdays drought monitor will be interesting. I’d expect some marginal improvement along and south of I-85 but I’d say the foothills to the piedmont and southern VA are all about to be in an exceptional drought.

Everything going well, legend?

Locally speaking, and truly locally, some of yall won big, but the Catawba River basin desperately needs to score soon. That impacts a lot of ag and water supplies from Lake James all the way down to the low country. I’ve never seen lake hickory this low (granted I wasn’t living here in 2007). Lake James —> Lake Rhodhiss —> Lake Hickory —> Lake Norman —-> Lake Wylie —> Wateree to Marion and out to sea at Charleston. This watershed supplies millions.

At least some of yall won! We all need it, so that’s a win in itself. I’d just settle at this point for consistent weekly thunderstorms as we warm up. As much as we loathe it, we need to get some soupy air to tap into. I can’t recall the dp being this consistently low. It feels nice, but it’s not conducive to active weather and afternoon lift. I’ve normally already put two treatments of disease X on the yard - no need so far.

Well. In the CAMs I trust I guess.

I will say, if there’s a bright side, it was a slow soaking rain at my house. The ground should’ve absorbed every bit.

Big bust of an event imo and looking drier and drier by the day going forward. This event just kept trending south until go time. Next event needs to jackpot Pennsylvania 2 days out to be in good shape locally. I don’t see this pattern breaking down any time soon and we’re about to be in extremely rough shape around WNC by summer.

Hate it has to be like this but yea, the CAMs are less than enthusiastic about rain north of I-85. I hope they’re wrong but drought breeds drought. I’m happy for folks in SC and Georgia though. They need it just as bad as we do in NC.

Wife: we should go to Palm Springs one day Me: we have Palm Springs at home babe

Idk yall, I may be out on this one. The HP to the north just doesn’t seem strong enough. It screams 5:1 ratio slop fest that melts on contact.

What a soaker this has turned out to be

I’m closing in on an inch if you can believe it, but I might be the luckiest backyard in 50 miles. Granite Falls got hit by two tiny thundershowers that dumped for about 20 min each + everything in between.

Dumping. Praise the lord! .

It used to be a near guarantee this time of year to have 2-3 cutoff ULL’s get trapped in the southeast and produce a week straight of light rain and cool weather.

This was a really interesting seasonal update. Would love to know their thinking for such a small max in the Apps, lee and piedmont regions, but I assume they’re counting on a lot of diurnal convection and high elevation initiation. Sign me up. Other than snow, nothing beats a 90° day getting its knees taken out by some drifters off the mountains, leading to a nice rain cooled 75° evening on the porch. .