NorthHillsWx

For much of NC even with the rain we were still below what a normal week should produce this time of year. So it makes sense that t worsened. I can guarantee that the 0.82” I've received THE ENTIRE month has done nothing but worsen the drought. This is our 4th in last 8 months I have recorded less than 1” of rain at my house for the entire month. Some areas saw normal rainfall as would be expected for a week in April and that would stabilize the drought but you won’t see improvement until you see above normal amounts.

Solid lightning show here

Extreme drought exploded in NC this week. Exceptional drought has developed east of Charlotte: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NC Hopefully this is the peak

Not looking good triad/foothills/mountains

Saturday starting to look like a really good rainfall for most of SC, central and eastern NC. Same system in January would be a banger

Thank god EDIT: got 0.23” which felt like a huge win all things considered. 0.81” on the week, 0.82” on the month

Yep, no rain within 100 miles today. After 80% chance with 1/2-3/4” forecast yesterday. But glad y’all got some much needed relief

GFS is as dry as run for parts of NC as we’ve had this spring. And yes, Saturdays system is now east of I 95

This reminds me of a snowstorm setup in many ways

I guess the rain this morning disappearing might result in less stabilization of the atmosphere and more opportunity for storms this evening. Recent hi res modeling has been trending higher with storm coverage in areas that missed today’s morning rain

It’s funny, we were told last weekends rain was the appetizer now it + those who saw rain yesterday might be the entire “wet” period…

My dumba** took yesterday off to plant the hunt clubs dove field before the rain. What a waste

Jealous. We’re stuck at 0.59” for the month, looks like that may be the total

It’s like… we’ve seen this before. Total collapse of rain chances today from what looked like an area wide soaker to nothing. Now the weekend is questionable especially in the triad

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Just like that we went from an 80% chance of rain to 40% on point click.

The AFD from RAH reads like “Rain will split the area today with very light amounts. Maybe an isolated storm this evening. Saturday has trended further south with the low. Amounts have decreased as well”. Going to see an expansion of the extreme drought in this area, despite the pattern change. Does look like Georgia and South Carolina see repeated beneficial rains but NC has dried out a lot on modeling

Models are really drying up for central NC tomorrow. Keep in mind this area missed the rain this morning and generally had just 1/2” last weekend

0.00” here. Officially TR bc it’s been spitting off and on

Painful watching that line disintegrate moving into central NC but models all called for it to happen

Tough forecast this weekend but could be a very soaking rain wherever the low tracks. Could be a large area of 1-2” with some higher amounts. Models bouncing around but someone likely gets a beneficial rain. Wednesday looks a little drier, maybe similar to this past weekend’s rainfall

0.49” of much needed rain yesterday and this morning EDIT: 0.58” was the actual total

91.7 here. No thanks I’m tired of this shit already. 0.01” for the month

We have once again eclipsed 90 degrees this month. Unlike earlier in the month the humidity makes it feel much worse this time

Hoping this is the last day I have to report my monthly total of 0.01”