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We're entering the pine pollen season here where cars get coated with yellow.

The trees are almost full "out" now, which is nice.

Not much grows well in this red clay, but pine trees do, along with kudzu of course, dogwoods and azaleas.  I caught some news in Ohio about new plantings of Bradford pear trees being banned, far too late of course.  Those ornamental trees were developed as hybrids that could not reproduce.

Oops.

Lincoln got about one-third of an inch of rain from the severe storms that rolled through the area Tuesday night.

While that qualifies as a decent rain in what has otherwise been a dry winter and spring, it's a literal drop in the bucket in overcoming current drought conditions.

Through the first two weeks of April, Lincoln has gotten less than 0.4 inches of rain. That's less than half of what it should have received by now.

That continues a dry weather pattern than stretches back to last fall. While precipitation in Lincoln was slightly above normal in March, it was way below average in the four previous months.

Since the start of November, Lincoln has seen about 3.4 inches of precipitation, including a season record for lowest snowfall. While late fall and winter are the city's driest months, normal precipitation during that time period is nearly 7 inches.

On Wednesday, city officials urged residents to begin voluntary water conservation efforts now as a potentially dry summer looms. The announcement was part of a wider effort by a consortium that includes the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District and other NRDs and water districts in eastern Nebraska.

I do not miss the weather in the North.

The lakes here were way down a few years back due to drought.  I think they all are at pool now, they look it from the road.

Atlanta gets more rain than Seattle.

On November 22, 2007 the water level was at 1,052.34 feet, setting a new record low. The previous low was 1,052.7 ft, set in December 1981. The water level as of November 28, 2007 had dropped below the newly set record to 1,051.98 feet and still decreasing at 0.05 ft a day. One month later, the water level stabilized around a final low of 1,050.79 ft, recorded December 26, 2007 at Buford Dam, with the level rising or falling daily by about 0.03 ft, although a foot lower than November levels. The day after Christmas, the water level began rising from week to week.

Lake Lanier recorded its second-highest water level ever over the weekend, as rains have brought the lake within less than a foot of its record level recorded in 1964.

On Friday Lake Lanier's water level reached 1,076.34 feet above mean sea level, a measurement of lake fullness. That's more than five feet above a "full pool" for Lake Lanier of 1,071.00. (From Feb., 2020)