April Discobs 2026

[CAPE]

Hard to believe my area has only been 'abnormally dry'. With the update tomorrow I expect to be in moderate drought category.

[HokieEnginerd]

Nice steady to almost heavy rain in Gainesville.

[GramaxRefugee]

0.49", dzl at obs

[ChillinIt]

.65 nw Cecil County :)

[Interstate]

.71 today for a total of 1.11 since Saturday. 

[CAPE]

0.14"

Nice to see there is another chance for a tenth of an inch or less on Friday night into Saturday!

[BlizzardNole]

0.03 for me .  Ironically, I watched ol' Germantown where I used to live (and complain about missing rain) getting a nice soaking on radar LOL.  I think my April total is close to zero, maybe a couple tenths.  I've never seen such a dry April and I'm trying to grow a brand-new lawn.  Ooof

[CAPE]

30 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

0.03 for me .  Ironically, I watched ol' Germantown where I used to live (and complain about missing rain) getting a nice soaking on radar LOL.  I think my April total is close to zero, maybe a couple tenths.  I've never seen such a dry April and I'm trying to grow a brand-new lawn.  Ooof

Sucks to have to water in April. I have been doing it for a couple weeks.

[weatherCCB]

0.50” here

[SnowtoRain]

0.05", 2.22" for month, a number of stream gauges with extremely low conditions https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/maryland/

[katabatic]

Had a couple of heavier downpours yesterday for a total of 0.71" (same as @Interstate). 3.22" for the month as things begin to green up. 

[CAPE]

23 minutes ago, SnowtoRain said:

0.05", 2.22" for month, a number of stream gauges with extremely low conditions https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/maryland/

Just over an inch here for the month.

[nw baltimore wx]

Picked up 0.63 yesterday and 2.30” for April. 

[WxUSAF]

Just under 0.5” yesterday and about 2.4” for April.

[dailylurker]

My rain gauge broke and their hasn't been enough interesting weather to motivate me to order a new one. It looks pretty wet here this morning. I heard it pouring around 10 last evening. 

[CAPE]

Using Mesonet data via NWS, Goldsboro is 1.35" for the month and Ridgely 1.09".

1.15" here recorded on my station. Very dry in this area.

[GramaxRefugee]

22 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

My rain gauge broke and their hasn't been enough interesting weather to motivate me to order a new one. It looks pretty wet here this morning. I heard it pouring around 10 last evening. 

Looked like we only got about another 0.10 overnight , so about 0.60 for the event. Not bad really.

[Paleocene]

12 hours ago, CAPE said:

Hard to believe my area has only been 'abnormally dry'. With the update tomorrow I expect to be in moderate drought category.

Things better turn around in May-June or we are gonna be baked this summer.

[Eskimo Joe]

18 hours ago, mappy said:

Thank you to you and @Eskimo Joe for the upcoming update! Had to retire my backyard station after another sensor broke, and after 10+ years of use, I say I got my moneys worth. Until I get a new one I’m relying on Mesonet and often forget to check precip totals the next day and then can’t go backwards in time haha

Would recommend a Tempest as a quick replacement. I've had one for several years and it's quite cost effective. If you get a backup power pack from them, your data will be preserved and uploaded post-event for documentation. It's a very nice backyard product.

[Eskimo Joe]

1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Using Mesonet data via NWS, Goldsboro is 1.35" for the month and Ridgely 1.09".

1.15" here recorded on my station. Very dry in this area.

Oh, month to date rainfall. Interesting. @wxmeddler might be a useful product to add to the page!

[CAPE]

3 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Oh, month to date rainfall. Interesting. @wxmeddler might be a useful product to add to the page!

I set it for 5 min obs and picked the max hours(720). A bar graph shows each time it rained/amount, and at the top of the graph it displays total for the period.

[CAPE]

Rainfall data from Easton site-