May ‘26 obs

[GaWx]

 Please post May ‘26 obs from your area as well as current wx events/obs for other areas. Hope all or at least most areas of the SE get good rains this month to help with the ongoing drought.

 The two big SE GA fires are now ~40% contained thanks to help from recent rains down there. 

 My area has had some showers this morning, which includes some isolated small heavier ones. The main show (widespread 1”+) for here as well as for the fire areas is tonight through tomorrow.

 Please pin @buckeyefan1TIA

[marsman]

We got June weather in April and now we have March weather in May. Chilly 54 and light rain. 

[yotaman]

Our first day of May was cool. High of 64, low of 52.

[NorthHillsWx]

Just 0.15” today but happy to get anything at this point 

[yotaman]

Looks like we will end the day at a decent .45". Good soaker.

[Coach McGuirk]

Was supposed to rain and not much. 

[cbmclean]

0.43" for the day.  1.32" for the week.  1.53" since last Saturday.  Together with reduced evaporation from cool temps, the bleeding is stopped...for now.

[marsman]

.20" for the day and a high of 57 at 4:14pm. Thinking about running the fireplace one more time, I can tell from the air others have been running theirs. 

[GaWx]

 Since the middle of last night, my area had ~18 hours of near continuous rain, which added to ~1.2” at my place. This was well predicted. It was a near perfect rain to help with drought since it was mainly light to moderate meaning little runoff. I’ll refine this final amount later, if needed. Yesterday’s showers added to only a few hundredths.
 
 This is the first event with 1”+ here since way back on Dec 4-5! Great start to May. That also means ~2.2” over the last 7 days in an area that had gone to extreme drought on the latest map due to extreme dryness back to Sept, near the worst drought condition in the US. This doesn’t end the drought but does put a nice dent in it even if only temporary. Hopefully others in a similar situation get similar relief soon if they haven’t already.

 This event should also have helped with the big fires to the SW.

 Due to the rain and N winds north of the front, it was quite cool for May with low 60s all day.

[Avdave]

.03" here this morning. Sun made an appearance at sunset.   Felt great outside though with shorts on and felt like early spring.  Ill take this over the 3 H's

[GaWx]

KSAV (airport) had a record breaking low of 46 this morning. It was colder than all of the model progs, which were 49 to low 50s. The 46 is the second coldest low since March 21st!

 Also for KSAV, that’s the 4th record low within the last 12 months:

11/11/2025, 2/1/2026, 3/18/26, and 5/3/26

6/27/2012 through 5/14/2013 appears to be the last time for that to have occurred.

 As the dates show, KSAV has had 4 record lows within just the last 6 months! The last time there were 4 record lows within 6 months: 6/6/2005-7/11/2006. There were a whopping 6 during 5/23/2006-7/11/2006!

 Considering the warming globe, that’s getting more and more difficult and is thus quite notable. To put the GW related handicap into perspective, there have been 9 record highs during this same period that there were 4 record lows.

Hunter (KSVN) had a low of 47.

Today and tomorrow will be very pleasant for early May with forecasted highs in the mid to upper 70s and dewpoints of mainly 45-52.

[olafminesaw]

[NorthHillsWx]

23 minutes ago, olafminesaw said:

This is too much for Raleigh. I got 0.15” there is no way downtown got that much more. Also the farm in Louisburg had less than 0.20” and its SE of Louisburg on that map. So that is likely too high as well. Honestly cut these totals in half 

[GaWx]

23 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

This is too much for Raleigh. I got 0.15” there is no way downtown got that much more. Also the farm in Louisburg had less than 0.20” and its SE of Louisburg on that map. So that is likely too high as well. Honestly cut these totals in half 

 Officially I see only 0.05” at RDU for May 1-2:

https://kamala.cod.edu/nc/latest.cdus42.RDU.KRAH.html

 Also, I see only 0.63” at FAY vs 0.91” on the map:

https://kamala.cod.edu/nc/latest.cdus42.FAY.KRAH.html

 It’s as if they put in the wrong map. Maybe that was a forecast map??

 But it has GSO right with nothing.

 

 Here’s a link to the last 7 days rainfall, which shows 0.44” at RDU, 0.77” at FAY, and 0.16” at GSO:

https://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KRAH/2605031100.sxus52.html

[NorthHillsWx]

2 hours ago, GaWx said:

 Officially I see only 0.05” at RDU for May 1-2:

https://kamala.cod.edu/nc/latest.cdus42.RDU.KRAH.html

 Also, I see only 0.63” at FAY vs 0.91” on the map:

https://kamala.cod.edu/nc/latest.cdus42.FAY.KRAH.html

 It’s as if they put in the wrong map. Maybe that was a forecast map??

 But it has GSO right with nothing.

 

 Here’s a link to the last 7 days rainfall, which shows 0.44” at RDU, 0.77” at FAY, and 0.16” at GSO:

https://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KRAH/2605031100.sxus52.html

Yes you are correct. RDU was the cutoff we got a little more than there but this map is garbage 

[olafminesaw]

This one maybe is a little more accurate?