As expected the rain yesterday was spotty, but in at least two cases it was the right spots. Here’s the 72 hour radar estimated rain across the region …
The good news is the Brantley County fire (officially the US-82 Fire, in the center of the above map) is a cell went across the eastern side of the fire (the direction it had been growing) dumping upwards of 0.75″ to an inch in places. That, combined with the wind shift, and the higher humidity hopefully helped both the firefighting efforts and to limit the spread of the fire. As the clouds clear and the sun comes up hopefully things will be better despite the fact winds will pick up today.
The other big fire, near the Florida Border in Echols and Clinch County, didn’t seem to get much rain so not expecting big changes down there.
As far as the drought goes, this probably didn’t help much, although a few can skip a day of watering. Looking in detail at the Savannah area, a thunderstorm cell spun up and crossed the area in the late afternoon …
And you can see on the rain total map how spotty this was:
The Enki station in Daffin Park recorded 0.8″. In contrast, the official gauge at the Savannah International Airport only got 0.02″! The soil moisture gauge, located 6″ below the surface, is still bottomed out at 200 centibars (bone dry). We’ll see later today if any of the rain manages to soak in even that far – my guess is the ground is so hard and dry, most of the rain ended up in the ocean. It will take several soaking rain events to get the upper soil to the point it can even absorb water.
It looks like the next chance for rain is Wednesday afternoon. We’ll see what we get …
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