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We’re not going to break 3/4” here so today’s rain while helpful will not get near close enough to alleviate the drought. Realistically we need what we got today twice a week to get back on track

Good rainfall rates appear to be filling in west of here

Drought canceled

Little on the low end here with 0.40” total so far but hopeful for more this morning

Picked up 0.14” from a pretty decent band of showers I wasn’t really expecting this afternoon. Good start

Wouldn’t that be some sh*t

Really has continued to look like a widespread soaking is coming tonight/tomorrow. First time in forever it hasn’t collapsed up to this point. There’s still time to fail lol

Yes you are correct. RDU was the cutoff we got a little more than there but this map is garbage

This is too much for Raleigh. I got 0.15” there is no way downtown got that much more. Also the farm in Louisburg had less than 0.20” and its SE of Louisburg on that map. So that is likely too high as well. Honestly cut these totals in half

Just 0.15” today but happy to get anything at this point

While it certainly won’t be the rain we were hoping for the cool steady rain is making for quite a pleasant morning here. It pushed just far enough west for Raleigh and the farm in Louisburg to get into the rain shield

If today’s system was in winter the cliff diving would be epic like epic epic

Tomorrow’s system is going to have a painfully tight gradient in rainfall with amounts over 1/2” and under 1/10” likely spanning a single county

Anything coming through a NW flow is going to underperform in QPF department regardless what models show. That has become more than evident over the last year

Yep… Triangle will be lucky to net 0.25”. Sorry for jinxing it… That being said I’ll take any measurable rainfall I can get and it will help with soil moisture at the surface as it will be an all day dreary scenario

Monthly stats- it was a wild month for swings temp wise. Lowest temp was 32.6 while we peaked at 93.7. Had 4 straight days over 90 and 6 total for the month. That was countered with 4 mornings in the 30’s. Lots of areas around here saw frosts and freezes that were past climo. The real story of the month will be the lack of rainfall. Just 0.83” total IMBY. I think RDU was a tick above that as they got a little more from the first rainfall in early April but I think they were likely below 1” as well. This was the 4th month of the last 8 I have recorded under 1” imby

No jokes but this would be a money setup in January. Probably have a warm nose somehow

New Bern looking at a foot while triangle gets 1-3”… typical

Guess Euro was exception. GFS ICON CMC and mesos all went NW from what I could tell

Every model ticked NW a bit at 12z. Christ I feel like I’m tracking a snow, not 3/4” of cold may rain

Understood. The root of my post was about NC in general, I haven’t followed how much rain Georgia got but I know it was more than we did. Regardless, your way looks continued wet over the next week, so hopefully next weeks monitor catches up and shows some improvement

For much of NC even with the rain we were still below what a normal week should produce this time of year. So it makes sense that t worsened. I can guarantee that the 0.82” I've received THE ENTIRE month has done nothing but worsen the drought. This is our 4th in last 8 months I have recorded less than 1” of rain at my house for the entire month. Some areas saw normal rainfall as would be expected for a week in April and that would stabilize the drought but you won’t see improvement until you see above normal amounts.

Solid lightning show here

Extreme drought exploded in NC this week. Exceptional drought has developed east of Charlotte: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?NC Hopefully this is the peak

Not looking good triad/foothills/mountains