NorthHillsWx

Might as well circle my house and add D4 on next drought monitor. We’ll have to wait 10 more months for another AN month of rain I guess

0.00”. Saw the outflow coming before the storms were even here and knew we were cooked

Another miss for me. Incredible

Grand total of 0.01” here

Didn’t get as hot as yesterday, but still extreme. 100.5 was the high

96 at 11:30…. On pace for our hottest day of the year 1:20- up to 100.2

Just caught the outflow from the storm sitting over RDU and it feels incredible

Looks like RDU made it at least to 101

Nope it fell apart just before reaching here, nothing but some mood drops. We blew the top off the thermometer today, topped out at 101.8!!!

Currently 100 with a dew point of 72 giving me a heat index of 110… Brutal doesn’t even describe this well enough

This week's drought monitor showed some more slippage in northern NC with an expansion for D3 and the reintroduction of D4 in the Triad area. Meanwhile the drought was again chipped away at the mountains and coast. Elsewhere in the south most areas remained unchanged but south of ATL has been dry lately and saw the reintroduction of moderate drought after a long break from it. Rest of Ga and SC were mostly unchanged

2010 was I think the hottest summer on record for Raleigh. I was in school at Clemson so I did not get to experience that here, thankfully

Yep. From ChatGPT: 2026 Raleigh Heat Metrics At-A-Glance (Year-To-Date) Days over 90°F: 65 days Days over 95°F: 33 days Days over 100°F: 6 days

RDU did hit 100. We maxed out at 98.8 at my house, but will say the trusty car thermometer was reading over 100 and got up to 103 on the beltline pretty much my whole drive back from the office until I got into my neighborhood. I'm sure some localized areas were well over 100. Feels like walking through a bowl of hot soup this morning. This is one of the most brutal summers I can ever remember living here. Just no real extended relief from humidity since June and no sign of real fall-like weather though Sun-Tues will be a decent reprieve

Key to all these is RI or last minute organization right before LF. Great examples. I think S FL gets some brown ocean effect simply due to the swampiness/ever present water of that part of the state. Wilma and Katrina are other examples of storms that did not weaken over S FL.