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Pattern May 2026

bust here, only 0.13. rats.

Csa said:
The Mets @ Rockies game was postponed due to the May snow accumulations at Coors Field...looks to be frigid there tonight, so wonder if tonight's game is postponed too. Baseball season snow accumulations aren't rare in Denver, it is insanity they don't have a retractable roof. This picture with ugly snow cover desecrating a nice ballpark is hideous.
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this is a bad take and i'll tell you why. ive seen a few games in coors field and the view is one of a kind. baseball under the rockies. a retractable roof situation would block all of that out. denver is typically sunny and dry, no need to spend billions to accommodate once in a blue moon weather events
 
Looking at official rainfall totals, a large portion of AL, TN, N and C GA, NW SC to CAE, and NC including CLT received ample to very heavy (flooding) rainfall since yesterday! Fantastic news regarding the drought and kudos to the Euro Weeklies to being on top of this potential for several weeks.

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This is just from FFC:
MOST LOCATIONS
HAVE SEE ANYWHERE FROM 0.5" TO 1.5" OF PRECIP WITH SOME ISOLATED
LOCATIONS SEEING UPWARDS OF 2" TO 4". 1 LOCATION HAS SEEN 5.29"
(CSG).
 
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The N 1/2 of AL was the only area on today’s released SE drought map that showed notable improvement. Keep in mind though that the heavy rains covering much of the SE US since yesterday are of course not taken into account since these weekly maps are based on data being submitted no later than 8AM two days ago. Although not for all areas, of course, I feel that next week’s map may show notable improvement (say at least one drought category) in portions of the SE. Besides the current system, there’s more waiting in the wings for especially S areas Fri/Sat!
 
jrips27 said:
3.32” where I was at just of Alpharetta, GA

Meanwhile the airport 35 miles south of here got .5”

Terrible luck for the south metro View attachment 195877
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Wow, what a contrast! Please tell me what the first color (light blue) represents as well as the gray and white. My sis lives in the Emory area and the color is the gray just south of the light blue. TIA.
 
GaWx said:
Wow, what a contrast! Please tell me what the first color (light blue) represents as well as the gray and white. My sis lives in the Emory area and the color is the gray just south of the light blue. TIA.
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Gray is ~ .5-1.5”
Blue is ~ 2”
Green is ~2.5”+

Here are COCORAHS totals but note that a bit more rain fell after this were posted early this morning. If I had to guess around Emory she probably got around 1 inch.

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Did very well here after getting screwed with the last few events. What stood out to me was how much the radar was underestimating the rain rates. A number of times it was raining extremely hard with 20 dbz returns. Ended up with 2.30...to say it was needed is an understatement. Always amazing to see how fast things green up after a good rain.
 
I am starting to think my rain gauge has a tendency to overdo precipitation accumulation (not sure how that even works but it always seems higher than most of the measurements in the area) but either way, it is rather impressive how much the house got up along the Roswell/Milton border. The creeks were raging through the area and there was excessive ponding in flat spots. Very unfortunate what happened with the dry slot setting up over the city and points east and west. Hopefully the chances of rain start to increase across the entire southeast as we head later into May/June to help with deficits, especially out east over the Carolinas. View attachment IMG_7625.jpeg
 
HailCore said:
I am starting to think my rain gauge has a tendency to overdo precipitation accumulation (not sure how that even works but it always seems higher than most of the measurements in the area) but either way, it is rather impressive how much the house got up along the Roswell/Milton border. The creeks were raging through the area and there was excessive ponding in flat spots. Very unfortunate what happened with the dry slot setting up over the city and points east and west. Hopefully the chances of rain start to increase across the entire southeast as we head later into May/June to help with deficits, especially out east over the Carolinas. View attachment 195880
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I don’t think that amount is impossible for that area but maybe a little high! You should invest in a COCORAHS gauge if you want! More accurate measurements and easy to be precise

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jrips27 said:
3.32” where I was at just of Alpharetta, GA

Meanwhile the airport 35 miles south of here got .5”

Terrible luck for the south metro View attachment 195877
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Thanks for posting. I’m in DC this week, but I saw the tracks were laid right over our area. My assumption was just over 3”, and you just confirmed that.
 
Ended up w/about 0.87" +/- ..
We'll take it..
71F
humidity 86%
dew point 66.9º
rainfall 0.87 inch
pressure 30.07 inch
winds WSW (very) Light & variable

I believe I'm going to invest in one of those Rain Gauge's mentioned upthread.
 
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Spent the last 36 working at the fire department and the rain has been a blessing. Back to pouring here again currently. Gonna be hard to keep up and make up 14 inches instantly but hopefully the pattern change will produce over time and not an elongated one!
 
My area got only a couple of hundredths today (all this morning), much less than expected and thus disappointing. But I’m still thankful we got 1.2” on Saturday (5/2) and am also looking forward to weekend prospects for good rains. It’s overall still going in the right direction.
 
It will most likely change hopefully. But the Ops ( especially GFS and Canadian suite ) keep the drought /dry cooking next 15 days. Less than an inch qpf , except euro that gets us 1-2 category out through 360hrs. The BN temps stay the norm. One thing we cant complain about.
 
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