The low at my residence near Lake Wheeler in Southern Raleigh was 40 degrees. The burn ban has been lifted for much of Central North Carolina as of today. I hope the rain will keep coming this week.
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Pattern May 2026
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Looks like GSO finishes one degree short of the record low (35) for today.
I got down to 38 degrees this morning on my thermometer ~ 5', but my ground level thermometer (~1') got down to 35 degrees. Not bad for early May.
39 glad I avoided the really cold stuff
KSAV (airport) had a record breaking low of 46 this morning. It was colder than all of the model progs, which were 49 to low 50s. The 46 is the second coldest low since March 21st!
Also for KSAV, that’s the 4th record low within the last 12 months:
11/11/2025, 2/1/2026, 3/18/26, and 5/3/26
6/27/2012 through 5/14/2013 appears to be the last time for that to have occurred.
As the dates show, KSAV has had 4 record lows within just the last 6 months! The last time there were 4 record lows within 6 months: 6/6/2005-7/11/2006. There were a whopping 6 during 5/23/2006-7/11/2006!
Considering the warming globe, that’s getting more and more difficult and is thus quite notable. To put the GW related handicap into perspective, there have been 9 record highs during this same period that there were 4 record lows.
Hunter (KSVN) had a low of 47.
Today and tomorrow will be very pleasant for early May with forecasted highs in the mid to upper 70s and dewpoints of mainly 45-52.
Also for KSAV, that’s the 4th record low within the last 12 months:
11/11/2025, 2/1/2026, 3/18/26, and 5/3/26
6/27/2012 through 5/14/2013 appears to be the last time for that to have occurred.
As the dates show, KSAV has had 4 record lows within just the last 6 months! The last time there were 4 record lows within 6 months: 6/6/2005-7/11/2006. There were a whopping 6 during 5/23/2006-7/11/2006!
Considering the warming globe, that’s getting more and more difficult and is thus quite notable. To put the GW related handicap into perspective, there have been 9 record highs during this same period that there were 4 record lows.
Hunter (KSVN) had a low of 47.
Today and tomorrow will be very pleasant for early May with forecasted highs in the mid to upper 70s and dewpoints of mainly 45-52.
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256wx
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I don't know how to easily access the data, but if memory serves correctly 1983 was a pretty good winter for most of the SE.
1. It like other very strong El Niños had AN to well AN rainfall amounts in much of the SE, which if repeated would be great news for the SE drought:
2. There was a historic very heavy wet snowstorm in the SE US on 3/24/1983 stretching from EC AL to NE NC! CLT got 10.3”, GSP got 9.3”,and RDU got 7.3” AHN got 8.7” and ATL got 7.9”, their heaviest snowstorm since Jan of 1940. That even gave Savannah a trace of sleet! ATL also had its snowiest winter (10.3”) since 1939-40 (another El Niño by the way):
3. Historic very late freezes RDU/GSO 4/17-21, ATL 4/19-20, and 1.8” of snow RDU on 4/18-9!
That doesn’t sound good
Looks like we slipped right under 40 this morning. Near 70 now with clear blue skies. 10/10 May weather
256wx
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Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Hopefully bodes well for the winter to come.
I wish the gfs would bump up on rain totals Wednesday and Thursday everything else looks good
12 CFS would get the whole SE out of the drought. Here's day 30 total QPF:
Can't bet too much on this solution but you'd rather see this output than not.
Can't bet too much on this solution but you'd rather see this output than not.
VegasEagle
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38 this morning on May 4. Yep makes sense
Downeastnc
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I got pics of that snowstorm somewhere...had 6-8" here.
CumulonimbusIncus
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More subpolar filth, with to back days of frigid cold mornings across the board, with 43°F at the airport this morning. Please get this month over with already, it'll be a miracle if it reaches even 80°F at this point
Guess it took 2 years to figure out. Anyway heres the record. Ever see hail size of a pepsi can. You might be seeing history
The biggest hail I've ever seen with a thunderstorm was tennis ball sized back during a thunderstorm near Auburn, N.C. which is close to where the WRAL TV towers are located back in the late 1970s. It's also the closest I've ever came to being struck with lightning. I was on the front porch of the old farm house I used to live in and a bolt struck a pecan tree in the front yard about ten yards away. About a second before the bolt hit my skin started tingling and then I saw a bright flash of light and heard the loudest boom I've ever heard in my life. My ears were ringing for a day afterwards. When I recovered from the shock of what happened, I could see a new scar on the top of the pecan tree that had never been there before.
I read a newspaper account about my 2nd paternal great grandfather who was struck by lightning in his house during a thunderstorm in Elm City, North Carolina on July 4th, 1900. He was sitting in his favorite chair during a storm and a bolt shot through the roof, knocking him out of his chair and unconscious at the same time. He survived and lived thirty more years afterward. My grandfather learned a lesson from that episode. His house had the most lightning rods I have ever seen.
I read a newspaper account about my 2nd paternal great grandfather who was struck by lightning in his house during a thunderstorm in Elm City, North Carolina on July 4th, 1900. He was sitting in his favorite chair during a storm and a bolt shot through the roof, knocking him out of his chair and unconscious at the same time. He survived and lived thirty more years afterward. My grandfather learned a lesson from that episode. His house had the most lightning rods I have ever seen.
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