Buckets of rain poured on parts of the state this week, including in the Triangle, providing short-term relief to an intense holiday heat wave and long-term drought.
More rain is in the Triangle’s future, but local experts say it’s not enough to get the area out of the drought.
“Still a lot of locations struggling with water, and we’ll continue to because just a few days of rainfall over several weeks and months to really come out of this,” said Barrett Smith, a senior service hydrologist with the National Weather Service said in a media briefing Thursday, July 9. “Happy to see the rain, and we’ll continue to take whatever we can get. But we continue to seeing significant impacts from this ongoing drought.”…