eyewall Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Falls Lake has resumed the steady drop after the rain event we had a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Temps busting big time for those near/under the slow moving showers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 0.67" today. Let's do it again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Had a trace of rain here in the brier creek area today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted June 27 Author Share Posted June 27 Hit 93 today. No rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Heavy popup over me just started! Edit: I forgot to post about a popup line that developed along the seabreeze midafternoon yesterday that gave me ~0.25” (on June 26th), which had brought my MTD as of 6/26 to 4.65”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Thankful for the storm that just passed. Just 0.12” but felt like a normal summer afternoon with a few claps of thunder and temps back down to 80. Humidity cometh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEwakenosnowforu Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Finally a real storm winds up to 40mph for 10 straight minutes! Insane rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 0.00". Temp has cooled down to 80 from the outflow. Too bad I'm now done with my yardwork. The cell that went through Garner looked bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlGrey Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Picked up 0.02 inch from a passing cell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 No rain in downtown Raleigh. Just some strong gusts from thunderstorm outflow. Looks like the eastern side of Falls Lake got a bit of rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Grateful to get 0.44" of rain in a gusty thunderstorm. Temp dropped to 74 degrees. More storms west of us. Looks like a few storms to dodge at the concert in Clemson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 6 hours ago, GaWx said: Heavy popup over me just started! The above popup, which didn’t last too long, still gave me ~0.3-0.4”. And now a new popup line of thunderstorms along the seabreeze is moving in with heavy rainfall potential per radar. This 2nd one ended up fizzling quickly as it came in after just a brief period of mainly just moderate rain. I estimate my total for today at 1/2”, which gets me to ~5.15” MTD. This further delays the earliest I’ll need to restart watering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Back up to 90 with a HI of 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEwakenosnowforu Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Man was that a storm today! Finally! At least 40 mph wind gusts for nearly 15 minutes...thunder and very hvy rain. Lots of power outages in Fuquay!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEwakenosnowforu Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 So 6 hours without power. Just came back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted June 28 Author Share Posted June 28 High of 89 today. Got .25" from an early afternoon thunderstorm and then another .75" from a severe warned storm this evening. Looked worse on radar than it actually was. Good beneficial rains today. I am now up to 3.39" for the month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 A disappointing 0.24" when areas to the south of town got 2+ inches. But still had 2.87" this week and 4.10" for the month, which is my first 4+ inch month since at least last June (my PWS records only go back a year). Rain didn't use to be this hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEwakenosnowforu Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 14 minutes ago, cbmclean said: A disappointing 0.24" when areas to the south of town got 2+ inches. But still had 2.87" this week and 4.10" for the month, which is my first 4+ inch month since at least last June (my PWS records only go back a year). Rain didn't use to be this hard. Where do live in wilson exactly? Those storms looked brutal going through there. I am from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Went back and calculated: June 2025 10.00 July 2025 3.91 Aug 2025 3.18 Sept 2025 0.66 Oct 2025 2.96 Nov 2025 1.37 Dec 2025 2.15 Jan 2026 1.06 Feb 2026 2.47 Mar 2026 1.91 Apr 2026 1.57 May 2026 1.98 June 2025 - May 2026 33.22 June 2026 4.10 (so far) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 4 minutes ago, SEwakenosnowforu said: Where do live in wilson exactly? Those storms looked brutal going through there. I am from there I live in the north end of town, near Lake Wilson (which is now mostly a puddle). Was just getting on I-95 heading south on the way to a birthday party when I hit those storms. They were torrential. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Had a few storms pop up here today, not much in the rain gauge. .13 fell here. And again now that I moved out of my old hood, they got nearly a third of an inch, go figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEwakenosnowforu Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 1 minute ago, cbmclean said: I live in the north end of town, near Lake Wilson (which is now mostly a puddle). Was just getting on I-95 heading south on the way to a birthday party when I hit those storms. They were torrential. Yes...I am from there...during floyd rescued the neighbors labradors from flooding. Lake Wilson rd...across the street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshM Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 70/70 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 0.02". Not enough to skip watering the garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 There wasn't any improvement worth mentioning for Falls Lake from yesterday. Looks like today is the last chance for about a week for any real rainfall there. We will see how much it drops off during the net heatwave. At least they lowered my forecast high to 105F for Friday lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Good storm coming through Falls Lake and its watershed. A little is better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUNYGRAD Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Some crazy weather for sure, snowfall already exceeding 12 inches out in western MT for this time of year----even for the higher elevations.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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