May Discobs 2026

[nw baltimore wx]

Last night’s storm took away some of the sting of another paltry event. Total of 0.32” yesterday.

[dailylurker]

I forget what it's like to have a rainy day where we get like 1.50". It's been since last fall if I remember correctly. All we get these days is a shower or sprinkles. 

[IronTy]

Another day, another forecast bust by the pros.  Local mesonet says 0.01".  I got more than that in my yard but still not enough to even soak through the leaf layer on the ground.  

[kgottwald]

Isn't there a rule at NWS to be very, very conservative when predicting rain during a drought?

[stormy]

6 minutes ago, kgottwald said:

Isn't there a rule at NWS to be very, very conservative when predicting rain during a drought?

If so, they broke the rule this week............ 100% and 90% for 36 hours resulted in .01"

[Interstate]

0.39 inches here... .27 coming overnight last night

[weatherCCB]

0.20” overnight

0.48” total

[GramaxRefugee]

Almost 0.30" total for yesterday and last night.

[BlizzardNole]

0.05 total and less than a tenth combined with last weeks "rain event."  I'm about ready to just give up on trying to get a new yard going.  I don't expect any real rain until probably the fall.

[The Dude]

.45" here

[Hank Scorpio]

Caught a glimpse of some kelvin-helmholtz clouds this morning. Always neat to see, since they seem to dissappear so quickly. 

[kgottwald]

Started to rain around 12:30 last night so I checked the radar. Huge red blob in southern Fairfax/PW counties. Northwestern tip of it touching I66 in western Fairfax. I only got light rain and one distant rumble of thunder. It looked like the blob might hit DCA but checking this morning, they just got a few hundredths too.