magpiemaniac

A muggy high of 85.8 today. Storm cell in Forsyth right now making its way eastward. I’m hoping that it has enough in the tank to give me a little rain here shortly. Not optimistic. Edit: This cell has crawled across Forsyth at around 6 mph. It’s puttering out.

Slavin is back tonight. I hope he’s at 100%. Hamilton is lost without him.

Congratulations to those who saw some needed precipitation yesterday. My 40% chance translated into exactly 0.00” of rain.

I was in TN last week helping my parents, so I had to skip buying the first round playoff strip. I’m scheduled to buy for the second and additional rounds tomorrow morning (assuming the obvious) but I haven’t decided whether I should bother. The Canes let the Preds’ foot in the door. They’re going to have to deflate them tonight or the season ends prematurely.

The pressure to perform at home tomorrow night will be immense. This series was within a hair of already being wrapped up 4-0. Canes are clearly the better team, but better teams poop the bed all the time in playoffs. I’ve been in such a foul mood since late Friday. And Trashville of all teams. I’d rather get taken to the mat by Washington.

Come on, big money! Spin, wheel, spin!

19/10/4

Looks like there are a few possibilities of brief rain in the next week or two, but areas that need it most—namely the SC/NC border coastal areas—still look pretty paltry. Something tropical possible along the coast around June 8th give or take. Something to watch. CA, AZ, southern NV/UT, and western CO/NM still dry as Mars well into June. That’s just a pile of kindling waiting to go up.

High of 88.5 at the house today. If we can get through this week, maybe we’ll see some rain and cooler temperatures this weekend.

I was as mad a Rod. The penalty imbalance has been awful. Hoping for a dominate Canes game this afternoon.

I’m old enough to remember when we had afternoon thunderstorms.

How is your yard holding up? IMBY, I’m at 1.38” of rain for April and 2.34” for May. (Could be a lot worse.) Here’s to hoping that a wet June comes through for us. Like you said, the rest of May doesn’t look too promising.

Can confirm. It’s all fouled up. P.S. Seems to be working now.

Northeast SC and southeast NC have now slipped into moderate drought as of May 13 according to US Drought Monitor.

That surprised me, too. I checked the morning low at PTI and it was 43. Other stations near me reported 37.2, 39.2, 37.2, and 38.1. Looks like the airport was the warm spot.

Low of 36.3 IMBY this morning.

While there’s certainly some “panic buying” going on, there’s also no denying that we’re in the middle of a short-term supply crunch. Seems like the local news stations want to lecture everyone to not top off your tank that’s already on 1/4. There’s probably no moral consolation to the person sitting on the side of the road two days from now with an empty tank saying to themselves, “Well, at least I didn’t panic buy on Wednesday.” Pundits, politicians, and reporters lie to us routinely, so when we’re told to chill out because everything will be normal by Friday, we’re reminded that we once had fifteen days to flatten the curve, too.

Let us know if you find some. I’ll trade Cottonelle for top tier regular.

Currently 49.1 degrees with light rain. (0.17” so far.) I’m not complaining though. Still better than 96 and solar death rays from above.

The GasBuddy app is now at #2 in the travel category on the iOS App Store. What a time to be alive.

Monday’s EF-1 in Alamance County wasn’t warned until after the tornado. RAH was like, “Alamance County? That’s not Wake.”

And don’t forget food prices and gas shortages. Things sure are going swell.

Looks like the dry weather trend will continue for the next two or three weeks in much of NC and VA. Slightly better chances for rain in SC and much of the deeper south. We might be begging for tropical moisture before too long. June does tend to be one of our wettest months around here, so there’s hope. And with the severe drought out west, I dread seeing the wildfires that are likely soon. It could get bad especially given how dry the long range precipitation forecast looks for CA, AZ, and NV. Disease. Famine. Drought. What’s next? Rivers of blood?

I thought most of today’s thunderstorms would be to my south, but I was pleasantly surprised to pick up 0.27” when a quick cell moved through earlier this afternoon. We seem to be in an “anything helps” dry period.