May ‘26 obs

[NorthHillsWx]

Its going to be funny when almost the entire SE sees multiple categories of drought improvement on tomorrow’s monitor but the corridor from Burlington to Raleigh to Wilson and a bubble around Savannah get worse 

[olafminesaw]

10 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Its going to be funny when almost the entire SE sees multiple categories of drought improvement on tomorrow’s monitor but the corridor from Burlington to Raleigh to Wilson and a bubble around Savannah get worse 

They tend to be note overly reactionary. Updated outlook:

[GaWx]

1 hour ago, olafminesaw said:

They tend to be note overly reactionary. Updated outlook:

 Many areas improved as expected. But they did extend the exceptional to more of the SAV area as NorthHills predicted. However, if the forecasts verify well, even this area will improve some there on next week’s map.

[NorthHillsWx]

57 minutes ago, GaWx said:

 Many areas improved as expected. But they did extend the exceptional to more of the SAV area as NorthHills predicted. However, if the forecasts verify well, even this area will improve some there on next week’s map.

I’m not going to lie I think this map is overdoing the drought in upstate and SW mountains. All week the news stations were saying 12-15” in that area was needed in a month to end the drought and a large part of that area got 6”+ last week with more from a few weeks ago and some isolated areas in SW mountains picked up 12-15”! No I wouldn’t Think it would “end” the drought but with that much rain I easily would’ve expected some areas to drop to “moderate”. Unfortunately going forward looks exceptionally dry for the areas in extreme drought in northern half of NC so missing this rainfall has likely doomed us to see rapidly worsening conditions over next couple weeks, again. In spite of rain, falls lake has continued to drop as very little fell upstream and water use has continued to increase. Cooler weather will be only saving grace here. Looks like SC and Georgia continue to get beneficial rains this week though 

[olafminesaw]

50 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

I’m not going to lie I think this map is overdoing the drought in upstate and SW mountains. All week the news stations were saying 12-15” in that area was needed in a month to end the drought and a large part of that area got 6”+ last week with more from a few weeks ago and some isolated areas in SW mountains picked up 12-15”! No I wouldn’t Think it would “end” the drought but with that much rain I easily would’ve expected some areas to drop to “moderate”. Unfortunately going forward looks exceptionally dry for the areas in extreme drought in northern half of NC so missing this rainfall has likely doomed us to see rapidly worsening conditions over next couple weeks, again. In spite of rain, falls lake has continued to drop as very little fell upstream and water use has continued to increase. Cooler weather will be only saving grace here. Looks like SC and Georgia continue to get beneficial rains this week though 

At least they should have dropped the short term drought designation in those areas. I understand that lakes and resovouirs may not have recovered, but soil moisture is likely pretty much back to normal