Drought Worsening

First, lets recap the last two days. I forecast a high of 95 on Wednesday and a high of 98 on Thursday. I was one off both days as the actual high on Wednesday was 96 and the actual high on Thursday was 97. I feel that Friday should be very similar to the past two days with the exception of slightly higher humidity especially in the evening. There is just a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon and early evening. There is a slightly better chance on Saturday and a decent chance on Sunday. Saturday looks like some will see a storm and others will remain hot and dry as lift is hard to come by other than daytime heating and higher dewpoints. Sunday, the latest upper ridge that has been affecting us will be well offshore and the approach of a deep upper level low over the Great Lakes should provide for much better coverage of showers and storms. Still though not everyone will get wet and thunderstorms have high run-off so it is not always beneficial. What we really need is a decaying tropical cyclone to be stationary over the southeast states pumping in copius amounts of moisture for widespread rains for several days. The latest drought monitor shows the whole state once again in a drought with Western NC in horrible shape. Eastern NC has been getting worse also as these very hot and dry days do take its toll on us. Folks, weeks of rain are needed to end this drought and I am really worried that we may be in worse shape come end of summer if we do not get something to ease the pain. We have not gotten through the peak of summer heat yet and already we are in worse shape now then we were at this time last year. Just because you saw inches of rain last weekend does not mean the rest of the state did. Yes I did rant here a little bit so I will post the current drought monitor map. Lets hope we can see more coverage of showers/storms the next 3 days then is currently being advertised!