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RDU officially hit 32 this morning, which is actually a day later than normal for the last 32 reading of the season. Actually impressed the airport got to freezing, after the extended heat of the past month+
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Next week extreme will probably exceed 25% of the state
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Also, my farm sensor got below 28 for nearly 2 hours, and is still below freezing at 3.5 hours. Pretty sure that qualifies as a hard freeze. This is corroborated with the nearby Franklin county airport data though they are about a degree and a half warmer which is very typical for a radiational cooling morning and their sensor being atop a hill next to the runway. Did not expect that at all.
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Undershot guidance across central NC this morning with some impressive lows in the 20s! 26.4 at my farm for the low, Henderson showing 27, Louisburg 28. 30 in Roxboro and Roanoke Rapids and 32-33 across the triangle. 32.6 at my house with frost
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March finished as 3rd warmest on record at RDU
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38.9 this morning felt especially chilly after the hot weather stretch we’ve been in
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Interesting. It’s been so long since we’ve had one I forgot
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Aren’t El Niños typically wetter on the east coast? With a total of 0.01” for April and no chance of rain till mid month at earliest, it could be dire straights around here unless we get a good soaking second half of month, not good
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Those of us who missed yesterday’s rain are in a world of trouble
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Wake county got screwed, sounds familiar. Eastern NC especially east of 95 got a widespread 1-2” rain and we couldn’t even get enough to wet the dirt
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Legitimately missed out on the rain today, 0.01” total. Everything this evening evaporated moving in and then reformed east of here
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Not here. Just 0.01” from first line. Maybe we get a few hundredths of an inch with the last line. Bad miss
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We’ve been running +15-25 so frequently I think people forget our normal high is still in the 60s here and April is not a summer month! Just a wild anomalous pattern
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High 85.8 here. Straight up mid summer feel, even the lawn crunch. Insane pattern. What the west dealt with all winter
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Bad bad bad, water restrictions a given this summer
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Drought worsened significantly across the entire region on the latest drought monitor.
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That was impressive
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12z GFS is under 1” total rainfall for almost the entire state of NC and most of SC and almost all that comes from a FROPA in about a week. Not good. Mountain areas do look to have semi consistent afternoon storms though that could help but there just aren’t any large scale storms to help region wide
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Overnight models again trended lower with precip over next 10 days
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There were over 100 active fires in NC yesterday. Entire state is a tinder box
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And to make matters worse all of the rain it’s showing now is from afternoon popup storms which are highly variable and not super beneficial for regional drought relief. Thunderstorm roulette in the afternoon is not where you wanna be to break severe+ drought conditions
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As temps and sun angle increase through spring, so does evaporation. Also, vegetation coming out of dormancy increases water uptake from soil. So 1/2” in winter goes a lot further than 1/2” in summer. Couple this with increasing water usage for lawns, In other words, we’re in trouble with a rapidly worsening drought. This is when we will see lake levels start to plummet. We need repeated widespread 1-3” rains to make a serious dent at this point
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This has gotta be one of the warmest march’s in history. We get a 1-2 day cooldown then right back to 80s or even 90. No spring this year we’ve jumped into a summer pattern
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0.31” here from yesterdays storms
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Drought going to worsen to “Extreme” category for much of NC given recent trends and where we already are. Truly could be a historic summertime drought unless El Niño effects hurry up. Scary going into summer with drought status where it is
