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Beautiful weather here past day or two. Felt like football weather out yesterday. Big time improvement on the drought monitor for Georgia. Dropped to D2 Severe Drought in my area. Only 0.23% of the state is in D4 now!

Driest spring of all time and the second we hit Memorial Day weekend it's non-stop waves of showers and thunderstorms. We've been under a Flood Watch in Atlanta for close to 48 hours now with more to come. Washed out of both days of our first tournament weekend of the summer and looks like it'll be a repeat next weekend. At least there should be some decent improvement on the drought monitor when it comes out.

Another cell just popped up and is over downtown Atlanta in almost the exact spot as the storm that created all the flooding issues yesterday. This is actually moving, though, and the rain rates seem to be less than they were yesterday.

Yeah that's the exact ramp I take to get on the highway going home each day. Thank God I decided to bail

I work in an office right in downtown ATL and that cell basically sat over us for an hour just dumping rain. Flash flood warning said rates of 1-2" per 30 mins. I left the office in the middle of the storm to get to baseball practice and came about 500 feet from getting on 75/85 right where it had flooded when I realized traffic on the Connector had stopped completely, bailed, and took side streets out. I was one of the only cars on the Connector northbound once I got back on because everyone else was stuck. Just a crazy freak small cell. Baseball fields are 10 miles north, only a few rumbles of thunder and about 5 mins of rain.

I expect north GA to be doing a little better next week. It looks like we held steady this week, which is a good sign. I would say we got maybe an inch or a little less with the storms that came through last night, and hopefully more this weekend. Of course, after one of the driest springs I can remember, our rec baseball league released the playoff schedules and the All-Star rosters this week, meaning we'll have 6-10 teams on the field any given night now through July 1, and the 10-day forecast immediately populated with more rain than I've seen since December. Go figure. I'll take the rain, though. We can sure use it. It's still going to take an awful lot of rain to put any kind of real dent in the drought.

Had 2.07" this month but 1.5" of that has fallen since 4/27. Only 51% of our normal rainfall for the month.

Georgia has had pretty good rain the past couple days. I think we've had 1.75" since Tuesday at my place and we're supposed to get another 1" over the weekend. I expect there to be some improvement on next week's monitor, although it will take several weeks or even months of normal to above-average rain to get us back to where we're supposed to be. ETA- Areas down in South GA are supposed to get close to 2" this weekend, and they sure could use it. Hopefully, it will help knock down those fires and get them out of exceptional drought status.

My theory for this is that it's hard for 1" of rain to be enough to drop a county a whole category when much of the state has been in some form of drought for 3+ months... FFC mentioned in their discussion today that even the 1-2" in store for central GA Saturday will not "put much of a dent in the drought." I think we will need at least multiple days/weeks of good sustained rainfall to improve by enough to drop a category. This image posted on FFC's Twitter I think does a nice job explaining... we would need over 10" in a month to get back to near-normal. Regardless, I do expect some improvement in next week's update.

Extreme Drought % (SE Region): VA - 8.07% AL - 47.93% NC - 54.87% FL - 78.51% SC - 79.03% GA - 80.72% Extreme drought grew significantly in North Carolina and South Carolina. Georgia continues to have some of the worst drought in the region, with fires growing in the southern counties. While we have received a few days of overnight rainfall now, it will be difficult for 1-2 inches of rain to overcome 3 months of drought. My area in Atlanta has received 1.75" of rain in the last 3 days, with hopefully more coming Friday overnight into Saturday. I do expect some improvement in next week's map.

Got 0.12" in ATL metro Saturday. FFC mentions multiple rounds of rain coming this week but also said models may be underrepresenting dry conditions and most won't see much more than an inch.

Extreme Drought % (SE Region): VA - 1.86% NC - 38.11% SC - 39.63% AL - 46.29% GA - 71.04% FL - 76.65% Wildfires growing in South Georgia; 30,000 acres burned in Clinch and Echols counties near the GA/FL state line, another one with 5,000 acres burned in Brantley County west of Brunswick. Smoke and haze being reported as far north as the Atlanta metro area. The governor's office has declared a state of emergency and issued a burn ban for counties in south and central GA.

Been unbelievably dry in Georgia. We got 0.15" on Easter and that's been it since that cold front in mid-March. I coach baseball and softball and the kids are all complaining that the clay's dried up so much it feels like they're sliding on concrete. On the bright side, we haven't had a single rainout yet (knocking on wood). FFC says this is our greatest drought (D2-D4) coverage since 2007. 2/3 of the state in at least extreme drought.

Come south about 400 miles, sun’s been out in my part of ATL since 10:00 this morning

Yeah, y’all definitely hit the jackpot over there. I’ve seen Buford’s gotten a ton too. I think we’ve had more sun than accumulation, haven’t even had what could be considered a dusting yet. Just the way these things go sometimes I guess

Been stuck under the Atlanta dry slot all day. Watching snow accumulate to the west east north and south. Brutal.

It’s been brutal. It’s sunny at my house here now. Hoping it’ll pick up some this afternoon, a shame to waste the coldest air in 3 years on nothing.

I wish, lol. I’m inside the perimeter right next to I-75 and sun is out. We had a burst of flurries/light snow for about 30 mins around 9:15-9:45 but nothing really since. No accumulation yet

25/13 with bright sunshine in metro ATL