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Pattern April Oven
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I thought the nam was going away. Is it not?
It’s raining!
Witchcraft 
I guess I'm gonna be one of the lucky ones. 1" since 4:45
Rain!
JHS
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Well, if the 18z gfs is right it is 10+ days before any real rain for many of us in NC and SC.
Brent
Member
It's supposed to be on borrowed time apparently. Who knows really
It was supposed to be gone in March so there's that
I've got .23 inches at the house just southeast of Lake Wheeler in Raleigh and it is still raining. At this point in consideration of how dry things have been, I will consider that a win.
Yimmy!
HailCore
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Absolutely soaking rains on the W side of ATL Metro complete with a healthy amount of lightning (encountered the closest CG I’ve ever seen) and probably some small hail at times earlier today (I didn’t see any). Hopefully this scene is repeated throughout the entirety of the drought-ridden SE over this next week. 
Unfortunately what fell on the west side didn’t translate elsewhere in the metro
Yea the radar in SC looks decent at first glance but ground truth is still dry. Just scattered drops on the car despite "rain" moving overhead for a couple of hours now. Even traffic cams back towards 95 look dry. We might get our 0.0" for April if Wednesday keeps trending drier.
On the neat side some crazy storms blowing up off the coast right now on Wilmington radar.
iGRXY
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We got a good bit of rain here for about 4 hours with an hour being some legit hard rain. Still a drop in the bucket for what is needed though
The Rubberband has snapped. Ngative Nao and below normal temps next 15 days and finally some Rain. We finally can enjoy spring wx. Robert/foothills has a great write up.See if Gboro can slide through month of May an avoid 90 degree mark. Keep streak alive. Im not wx educated enough to discern if perhaps this pattern shift is being triggered by el nino onset as we have been transitioning out in the pacific from la nina to el nino.
Didn't pick up enough to even register in the gauge last night so still technically at zero measurable rain for the month to date. Or maybe it's heavy dew I'm not sure.
The increase in dewpoints will slightly help the fire danger but not much. Congrats to those that actually got something this time around. Hopefully Wednesday pans out for us in SC because outside of a couple places around Florence, Dillon and the upstate the rest of us got zilch. Still extremely smoky outside too.
The increase in dewpoints will slightly help the fire danger but not much. Congrats to those that actually got something this time around. Hopefully Wednesday pans out for us in SC because outside of a couple places around Florence, Dillon and the upstate the rest of us got zilch. Still extremely smoky outside too.
Shaggy
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Downeastnc
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We managed maybe .50" out of this which is not bad, still the models need to show more than this to see any kind of reversal of the worsening drought.
0.0 Myrtle Beach, SC.
Radar estimate is .24 tempest is .16 not sure it my tempest leaning is causing it to read low. Either way 3 days of moisture back in the ground, need this week to cash
Had an additional 0.03" of rain overnight, along with lots of lightning...storms are a dangerous setup for wildfires with these dry fuels. What fell in the NW Atlanta metro didn't translate here east of the city in DeKalb. It seems like the ongoing pattern favors areas N/W for storms, and not S/E, pretty typical of late spring climo
Cold front cold fronting
I cashed in with .48 inches southeast of Lake Wheeler in Raleigh. Although this event will not remind anyone of Noah's flood, it is a welcome relief to the plant life in my yard and the trees in the woods behind my house. Chances are good that more rain is on the way during the upcoming week so I hope everyone will get some rain. We still have a long way to go before we make up for almost ten months of below normal rainfall.
.33 and fall like outside right now
NoSnowATL
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0.0. Dried up also.
Getting our best rains (and just about our only rains of note) since April 5th’s nearly 1/2”. Currently have a band of heavy thunderstorms coming through with some rumbles. I haven’t watered since 4/22 and this will allow me to go further without going back to watering. 
Edit: I ended up with ~0.8” on April 26th, the heaviest here since at the very least March 8th.
Edit: I ended up with ~0.8” on April 26th, the heaviest here since at the very least March 8th.
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.01 here in Myrtle Beach. The ground kind of got wet. .01 I think is generous.
Brent
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I'm ready for the severe weather to move on. This has been a ridiculous stretch here. Most years its still in Dixie now
That cold front next week looks amazing though
That cold front next week looks amazing though
NBAcentel
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Wednesday is sneakily starting to look like a pretty solid day for a large hail event across NC and maybe SC
gawxnative
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Well cannot get it to post...but a pretty substantial rain maker is on the eastern 2/3,s of the Brantly Co GA fire area..
According to the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Brantley County fire has caused the most significant home loss that the state has ever experienced from a single wildfire.
As of Friday, at least 87 homes have been destroyed, some with scorched husks of abandoned cars nearby, among blackened tree trunks and heat-blistered road signs.
More than 800 homes remained in harm’s way.
Gov. Kemp says balloon hitting powerline sparked Brantley wildfire, one of the most devastating in Georgia’s history
More than 5,000 acres continue to burn in the Highway 82 Fire in Brantley County, with at least 87 homes lost, and the Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that a curfew will be in place from 8:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. in the affected area.
www.news4jax.com
Keep in mind that the Brantley County fire is actually the smaller of the two huge fires! These two are the largest in the country! This is a terrible situation.
Brunswick today had thick smoke and thus very unhealthy conditions, worse than my are had had.
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Some pretty hilarious differences in a 96 hour rainfall forecast from the GFS and Euro for Atlanta. Feels like we’re tracking a winter storm 
With the way things have gone, I would expect nothing.
Forreal. If the Euro verifies Atlanta may lock in its driest April ever