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Significant improvements on this weeks drought monitor for pretty much everywhere in region besides northern piedmont of NC. Some areas have gone all the way to just the “abnormally dry” category and much of SC and eastern NC is now only in “moderate” category. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Southeast

Another incredibly cool morning for June, 53. It is going to be wild having lows in 50s and highs in 90s next couple days

Falls lake is falling about 18” a month right now, and over last 3 days the rate has increased from about .5 to .7” a day

RAH referring to us as a desert now: 1) Very dry air and soil moisture levels will lead to desert-like conditions with very warm days and very cool nights into Thursday night.

Wow! Was not expecting that this morning. My farm dropped to 41.7 too which was in line with the Louisburg airport reading of 41. Very chilly. 50.2 here at my house so didn’t quite crack 40s but what an incredible morning walking outside

RDU has at least tied the record low for today (49)

Is this a cruel joke?

@yotaman I know you got a lot today it was coming down hard in new Bern and James city a little while ago on 70 road was flooded in the construction area

Some of it was the stable air when the wedge lasted a lot longer than expected.

I’ll believe it when I see it

RDU finished with just 1.54” of rainfall during May which is less than 1/2 the normal amount for the month. With only 8.32” for the year it also marks the driest start to a year through June 1 in history (132 years) for the observing site.

Paltry 1.79” MTD Precip (think RDU was actually about a quarter inch lower last I checked) 96.6 hottest temp 41.9 lowest temp

The second image proves the triangle screw hole extends beyond snowstorms

You’ve had more this week than I’ve picked up last 4 months combined

The Burlington to Wilson Sahara: https://x.com/nwsraleigh/status/2060427868295885014?s=46&t=NyKvXvI1o-sJQb-68mmo4g

A rainy period is always 3 weeks away here now… Raleigh all but guaranteed to slip into level 2 water restrictions. Saw the lake was headed to 70% (currently 73%) and current restrictions went in at 85%. 60% is next level and that will come quicker as water usage increases in summer

Yep northern piedmont missed out, about the only area in the entire region that did. Looks quite dry going forward too

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

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

Even with the rainfall over the past week RDU is only at 1.54” for the month. With rain chances decreased through the rest of the week, looks like yet another month here with less than 1/2 the normal rainfall for the month

Almost matched here

Upstate is legitimately getting enough rain to end the drought there

Got 0.19” additional from a passing cell, .44” for day 1.79” MTD

0.25” here, 1.60” MTD

Had at least a 70% chance of rain every day since Thursday so going on 5 days and have only recorded measurable rainfall twice