Drought is Improving

Check out the rainfall amounts from Sunday's heavy rain:

PAWLEYS ISLAND 2.60
ANDREWS 2.45
LORIS 2.27
FLORENCE 1.76
GEORGETOWN 1.64
MULLINS 1.48
DARLINGTON 1.44
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH 1.44
TIMMONSVILLE 1.36
GALIVANTS FERRY 1.29
BENNETTSVILLE 1.26
QUINBY 1.21
DILLON 1.00
LUMBERTON 0.96
HARTSVILLE 0.94
MARION 0.93
EFFINGHAM 0.82
SOCASTEE 0.45


Not bad! This rain is helping relieve the drought that has been gripping the southeast for over a year. Here is the latest Drought Monitor, and it has the eastern Carolinas out of the drought, but we are still in an "abnormally dry" area.



The Seasonal Drought Outlook for May through July has the remaining drought areas in the southeast improving.



Here is what Climate Prediciton Center has to say about the drought:

The protracted drought across the interior Southeast and southern mid-Atlantic, continually depicted on the Drought Monitor since February 2007 in a few areas, has improved in recent months. The region should receive near or above normal rainfall through the first half of May 2008, but there is no discernable tilt of the odds concerning precipitation trends for late May - July 2008, and given the typical increase in water demand and evaporative losses as temperatures warm through late spring and summer, significant hydrologic drought relief is not expected through the end of July. In spite of the likelihood of continuing short term relief, substantial long-term precipitation deficits (and thus hydrologic drought) remain entrenched across the southern Appalachians, and are expected to persist through July 2008. The greatest likelihood for improvement exists in Virginia and the Tennessee Valley.

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