Derek_James's Blog

Most of us have green grass, some of the plants look pretty good, BUT Charlotte is still in a severe drought. Gaston, Lincoln, Cleveland and other counties to our west are doing even worse, they are at the second worst level, extreme drought.  

It was about this time last year that things really started going downhill and it could again this spring/summer.  Unfortunately, so far in 2008 we're doing worse than in 2007.  Last year at this date, we'd received 15.27" of rain.  So far this year, we've only received 13.35" of rain.  We're already behind by over 3" from our normal. 

We can hope we don't get in the same hot, dry pattern as next summer of you can count on another round of severe summer water restrictions.

Reg, Tera, & I will continue to keep you up-to-date with the latest conditions on all our forecasts...If you ever have a drought related question, feel free to post it here.  We'll do our best to answer it.

Derek