SUNYGRAD Posted yesterday at 11:19 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:19 AM Well, so much for the burn ban maybe getting lifted soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM 9 minutes ago, SUNYGRAD said: Well, so much for the burn ban maybe getting lifted soon. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnionCountyNCWX Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM LOL CLT gets rain Tuesday morning that no one calls for, then get no rain this morning that everyone was calling for. Make it make sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnionCountyNCWX Posted yesterday at 11:32 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:32 AM On 4/27/2026 at 1:34 PM, UnionCountyNCWX said: "Show me the pretty colors 48 hours out" Cmon, dont let me down now. Lol, yea what a let down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted yesterday at 11:47 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:47 AM 15 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said: 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 It seems like everything is being pushed south all of a sudden with the high pressure coming in stouter. You'd know north trend in the winter and south trend in the spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted yesterday at 11:48 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:48 AM 16 minutes ago, UnionCountyNCWX said: LOL CLT gets rain Tuesday morning that no one calls for, then get no rain this morning that everyone was calling for. Make it make sense. Crazy weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted yesterday at 11:49 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:49 AM Just now, Met1985 said: It seems like everything is being pushed south all of a sudden with the high pressure coming in stouter. You'd know north trend in the winter and south trend in the spring. My dumba** took yesterday off to plant the hunt clubs dove field before the rain. What a waste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbart Posted yesterday at 12:20 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:20 PM 31 minutes ago, Met1985 said: It seems like everything is being pushed south all of a sudden with the high pressure coming in stouter. You'd know north trend in the winter and south trend in the spring. Sorry NC, I washed my truck and tuned up the motorcycle, hence the rain shifting south. I will try and do some garden work were the rain would help out and restart the drought down here so y'all have a better chance at rain. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted yesterday at 12:44 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:44 PM If Saturdays rain stays south mostly, next week looks pretty dry again. Too much nw flow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM 46 minutes ago, wncsnow said: If Saturdays rain stays south mostly, next week looks pretty dry again. Too much nw flow 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… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted yesterday at 01:56 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:56 PM 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted yesterday at 01:57 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:57 PM 6 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said: 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… I'm grateful to have received a little over an inch the past 3 or 4 days. It has helped the top of the ground some but the rivers and streams didn't budge and they are talking about water restrictions coming along the Catawba River basin this summer if things don't change quickly. They are already asking people to conserve voluntarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnionCountyNCWX Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said: 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 Idk about elsewhere but CLT has had heavy cloud cover all day, dont think the environment will be great here but I guess we will see what turns up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnionCountyNCWX Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 1 hour ago, UnionCountyNCWX said: Idk about elsewhere but CLT has had heavy cloud cover all day, dont think the environment will be great here but I guess we will see what turns up. Spoke too soon, here comes the sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago South trend continues with the weekend rain too... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 1 hour ago, wncsnow said: South trend continues with the weekend rain too... This reminds me of a snowstorm setup in many ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Too much NW flow. Going to be cold and dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Still running near record low precip since October Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago We need a last minute North trend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 36 minutes ago, wncsnow said: We need a last minute North trend Not looking good triad/foothills/mountains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted 48 minutes ago Share Posted 48 minutes ago 1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said: 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 I believe that there’s notable reporting lag. I don’t mean just that the map is as of 8AM of two days ago (4/28). Note that not a single area of the SE got better on the map released today vs the map released one week ago (in addition to many areas getting worse). See the maps below. I don’t see how that’s reflecting reality. Based on looking at rainfall reports across the SE for prior to 8AM on Tue there was moderate to heavy rainfall in portions of especially N AL to S NC during the several days prior to April 28th. Despite that, some of those counties actually got worse vs the map as of the prior weekly map. I believe that due to the time needed to gather reports that there’s reporting lag of perhaps a few days. In other words, these maps as of Tue at 8AM are in reality probably reflecting closer to, say, an average of 8AM on Saturday or whatever. Tue at 8AM is just the deadline to get reports in so they have time to compile the map for the Thu AM release. In reality, there’d be reports coming in before Tue…say on a Saturday for example. And then that Sat submission could have been based on a Fri or Thu observation. Map released one week ago: Map released today: no improvement anywhere and worse in many spots: not realistic imho…example much of my county got nearly 1” of rain on Sunday (heaviest since March 6th), well before Tue 8AM deadline for submission, and yet my county got a worse designation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bckhd2 Posted 41 minutes ago Share Posted 41 minutes ago 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bckhd2 Posted 29 minutes ago Share Posted 29 minutes ago 14 minutes ago, GaWx said: Map released today: no improvement anywhere and worse in many spots: not realistic imho…example much of my county got nearly 1” of rain on Sunday (heaviest since March 6th), well before Tue 8AM deadline for submission, and yet my county got a worse designation! 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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