June 2026 Obs

[eyewall]

Falls Lake has resumed the steady drop after the rain event we had a few days ago. 

[olafminesaw]

16 minutes ago, eyewall said:

Falls Lake has resumed the steady drop after the rain event we had a few days ago. 

This is why the drought monitor did not show improvement. There were some improvement to short term drought (shallow soil moisture, levels of small creeks etc.), but long term drought has no meaningful dent made and the heat/moderate humidity will only worsen water levels over at least the next couple weeks

[cbmclean]

2 hours ago, olafminesaw said:

This is why the drought monitor did not show improvement. There were some improvement to short term drought (shallow soil moisture, levels of small creeks etc.), but long term drought has no meaningful dent made and the heat/moderate humidity will only worsen water levels over at least the next couple weeks

This has been building for ~9 months, with a dry fall, a bone-dry winter and a record dry spring.  It will be many months until we get out.  Barring a Matthew-level tropical system inundating the state (which brings problems of its own) I think the reasonable best-case scenario is to slow the bleeding until well into fall when the temps cool down and hopefully the super el nino southern stream ramps up.

[olafminesaw]

Temps busting big time for those near/under the slow moving showers

[cbmclean]

0.67" today.  Let's do it again tomorrow.

[Avdave]

Had a trace of rain here in the brier creek area today.  

[yotaman]

Hit 93 today. No rain.