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Just saw the NWS monthly report and RDU never hit freezing the entire month, marking the first time since 1945 and only the 2nd time in history that the site failed to fall to 32 degrees for the month of March. Overall it was the 9th warmest March in history for RDU

Yep

Some hints of tropical development next week in the SW Atlantic near the Bahamas

Irma actually weakened to a 4 over the water before re-intensifying into a 5 before landfall in Cuba. As it moved over the Florida straights post-Cuba, it re-attained cat 4 status before making LF in the keys, but the core became disrupted due to dry air and modest NW wind shear. Watch a radar loop of the storm approaching the keys, it is evident when the core becomes disrupted. It was a half-a-cane from the keys to Naples LF. While the Cuban disruption certainly kept intensity down, it did have time to reorganize and reintensify to a 4 while on approach, but shear and drier air were more an issue as it approached the US as it did reform a beautiful symmetrical core after Cuba, briefly. If the storm had tracked further north towards Miami instead of brushing Cuba, it may have weakened from the same factors that weakened it dramatically from the keys to Naples. Or it may have missed those as it arrived before they did. My money is on Irma being a monster cat 5 if it had stayed north and hadn’t slowed down while hitting Cuba, but there were variables other than land at play that contributed to the weakening before US landfall

.46” yesterday and today

Definitely feel that way. Last week areas in Durham county (one county over) picked up 4-5” and we didn’t even get one quarter on an inch from the entire two day event

It is wild how much wetter western areas have been.

Picked up 0.12” last evening

Missed out on everything last few days. Just 0.08” from showers last night

First 1”+ rainfall since March Finished with 1.38” yesterday

Picked up a whopping 0.02” over last two days. Much cooler than forecast today, sitting at 82 (forecast had been 90)

0.04” overnight. Waiting on afternoon storms. Currently 75 with 82% humidity and mostly cloudy. Picked up an additional 0.23” with the evening storms for a 2-day total of 0.87”.

Picked up .60” of rain yesterday

We dodged ducked dipped dove and dodged our way to 0.00” today

First 90 for us. Currently 90.7 and extremely hot. Here it comes!

61% of NC is now in “Abnormally Dry” category of drought monitor, up from 40% last week. Does look like western areas of the state could pick up widespread rains over the next 5 days but central and eastern areas could remain dry. This obviously is not what we want heading into summer

Never cracked 90 for the month. Lowest temp was 33. Rainfall was paltry, just 1.36” and nearly an inch of that fell on the 4th

With no rain in the forecast through the end of the month, looks likely our current 1.36” mtd total will remain our paltry total for the month. This is quite the contrast to last year, when we finished with 10.94” for April!

40% of NC in the “abnormally dry” category in this weeks drought monitor, that’s up from 28% last week. With little to no rain in the forecast I expect drought conditions to redevelop in a lot of central/eastern NC. Thankfully this is somewhat localized and much of the region is in a surplus of rain this spring

Bit more dreary day yesterday than I was expecting, showers kept it cool for a lot of the day. Managed to get to 69 before the rain but temps dropped all the way to 59 before rebounding to 68 late in the day again. Just 0.06” but every drop here is needed

Going to be extremely frosty in the morning. Most of NC in the mid-lower 30’s already with a couple more hours to bottom out with no wind. Some places may even get below freezing. Hope everyone’s garden was prepared

0.32” yesterday brings MTD total to 1.30”

After missing out on almost all the rains over the last 2 weeks, the abnormally dry are on the drought monitor has blossomed from 12% of the state of NC to 28%, mostly in central and eastern parts of the state. Combined with this early season heat, it feels very “crunchy” out there walking through the woods

High of 88.4 yesterday

0.00” today despite 100% coverage forecast and 1-2”