Saturday night’s rain was a welcome sight, but not nearly enough to be a drought buster.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Jonathan Blase said the Triangle needs another 10- to 15-inches of rain to end the drought.
“The rain is helpful,” Blase said Sunday, “but the impact on a drought that has taken six-to-nine months to develop is going to be somewhat limited. What it does do is kind of stops the bleeding and keeps things from derailing as fast as it kind of has been.”…