WRAL.com: Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville

Log in to WRAL.com with one click using your favorite social network:

Register with WRAL.com using your favorite social network:

12:51 a.m. • 6-19-13

69°F

Weather Forecast for Raleigh

Today: Partly Cloudy.
- Hi: 85° F
Thu: Partly Cloudy.
- Hi: 85° F
Fri: Partly Cloudy.
- Hi: 85° F

Other Locations

7 Day Forecast

Comments :: 65 NC counties now under 'moderate drought'

65 NC counties now under 'moderate drought'

Click here to return to the Story

10 Comments

WRAL.com welcomes your comments on this story. All comments are moderated prior to publication based on our posting guidelines. Please review them prior to posting and if your message is not approved.

This story is closed for comments. Comments on WRAL.com news stories are accepted and moderated between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

page 1

sort order: oldest first | newest first

We live just north of Falls Lake in Wake County and we always register more in our rain gauge than the recorded amounts at RDU. Still other times we will have as much as 1/4-1/2" and RDU will say a trace. There needs to be more areas in the county to record rainfall, then maybe average them???? Our gauge is a large one from a farm supply and quite accurate in an open area.

jma47
December 6, 2012 6:47 p.m.

Report abuse

Pray for some rain, and just maybe God will see that you get it in his own time. Have some Faith for a change.

charmcclainlovesdogs2
December 6, 2012 4:16 p.m.

Report abuse

Save a glass of water, pour a beer. Nuff z Nuff

A draught beer...

fishon
December 6, 2012 4:13 p.m.

Report abuse

Good thing NOAA doesn't know what it's talking about based on smaller plots of geographic data. This winter is shaping up to be just like the last, not a drop of precip, no snow within hundreds of miles and temps more like May.

Most of the time it goes this way on this geo-plot.

Save a glass of water, pour a beer.

Screw WrAl
December 6, 2012 4:01 p.m.

Report abuse

Good thing that the NOAA long-term forecast shows slightly wetter than normal conditions for eastern NC (with normal precip in the western half of the state) and also that we are in a neutral position relative to El Nino / La Nina, which has a great effect on precipitation here.

charlesboyer
December 6, 2012 3:07 p.m.

Report abuse

The groundwater level is about the same as the drought 5 years ago, we have never totally recovered.

cad
December 6, 2012 2:32 p.m.

Report abuse

I told you guys back in August that we were headed into anothe draught. Several scoffed at the idea.

I simply watch the small farm ponds in Western JoCo. They will tell the story. When they are receeding, draught is beginning to occur. When they are full, draught monitors are ok!! I realize this is not terribly scientific, but it sure seems to be a good indicator.

A good 10"-15" snowfall that melted very slowly sure would help this situation. May I ask for after Christmas?? Slow business week-relaxed-kids don't miss school-what a plan-or Christmas wish???

baldchip
December 6, 2012 2:09 p.m.

Report abuse

I WANT SNOW!!!!!!!

anderson
December 6, 2012 1:34 p.m.

Report abuse

Another amazingly cyclical process. Sometimes we get snow, sometimes we do not. We used to have terrible air quality in the summer, but that has not happened in a few years, but it will again. One thing certain about the weather though, it will rain again. And then remember when we had the worst drought about 5 years ago and could not even wash our cars, that was then cured by a hurricane. We get plenty of water here; dig a bigger reservoir, and this would be a non-story.

Fuquayone
December 6, 2012 12:24 p.m.

Report abuse

Hasn't rained here in recent memory.

Hans
December 6, 2012 11:40 a.m.

Report abuse

page 1

sort order: oldest first | newest first