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Pattern May 2026

Parts of Johnston county have been the RDU metro jackpot winners of the last 96 hours overall with 1.5”-2”. Here’s the last 24 hours: only they got significant amounts in RDU metro

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A band from Carrollton to Gainesville, which includes much of the N ATL metro, as well as to the N and NE of AHN centered on Madison county did quite well the last 24 hours. As the map shows, some other areas of N GA, including near Rome, also did well:

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Aside: I got just a T the last 24 hours and am at only ~1.5” MTD with most of that falling 23 days ago!
 
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I have .11 inches in the rain gauge just southeast of Lake Wheeler in Raleigh courtesy of a shower earlier this morning. That gives me a total of 1.04 inches since Thursday. I'm hoping the heavier rainfall will show a little love to those of us who live in the Eastern Piedmont and areas west.
 
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J.C. said:
We see who the winner is here, but damn Durham got the shaft.

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Thanks for posting that. It shows how well much of N ATL metro did as well as much of E GA (not my area), NW 1/2 of SC, part of NC mtns and E Carolinas, portions of E TN, and some of N AL.

To add, the immediate RDU area had their best recent 24 hour period the 24 hours just before your map covers (7AM 5/21 to 7AM 5/22) with hardly any since as you showed:

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Sunday, 5/24/26... Doppler Radar estimated anywhere from 3.5" to over 5" in Goose Creek. It spread out in intense cells over a 3 hour span. Yesterday's rainfall was greater than the combined rainfall from February, March, April up thru 5/23/26 here (nearly 120 days). (Radar loop I produced was too large. Had 4 separate cells. Including the main line)CODNEXLAB-NEXRAD-CLX-DSP-20260524-1856-24-100.gif
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
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You can carve out an ellipse of Level 0 from south of Atlanta to Macon. I have 2" of rain for all of May so far. You can't flood with showers dropping .18" to .28" per day. This is a false map. Now NW of Atlanta, that's a different story.
 
It's a good thing these bands of rain are moving steadily along. They are prolific rain producers, as I have finally gotten some drenching rains through here.

I had cancelled our annual Memorial Day gathering, and for a while there, I thought perhaps I'd catch grief from the family for a blown forecast.
 
Wild Weather Monger said:
It's a good thing these bands of rain are moving steadily along. They are prolific rain producers, as I have finally gotten some drenching rains through here.

I had cancelled our annual Memorial Day gathering, and for a while there, I thought perhaps I'd catch grief from the family for a blown forecast.
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Yes ..same here until about 1530... I m showing 2.18 from 1530 to 1640 EDT here currently and pure pouring here still.,...
 
We can throw out the idea of an extreme above normal June now with the soil moisture back up.
 
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Yes ..same here until about 1530... I m showing 2.18 from 1530 to 1640 EDT here currently and pure pouring here still.,...
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Watching the batch of storms coming in from the south, once again, it looks like the heaviest will miss us both to the east and to the west. If this were snow, I'd be hitting the bottle.
 
Dam finally broke for some of us in the eastern half of the coastal plains today. 1.5" exactly in the PWS with a few showers still building in. Wettest day officially since October 12, 2025.
 
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