{"id":730,"date":"2025-05-01T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/?p=730"},"modified":"2025-05-01T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:50:06","slug":"short-range-outlook-for-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/short-range-outlook-for-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Range Outlook for May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a dry April in most of North Carolina, the forecast for May promises better rain chances beginning this weekend as a cold front rolls through. The rest of the month offers some summer-like conditions and chances for more organized weather systems &#8212; and potentially more widespread rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outlook below summarizes our expected May weather. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available as a PDF<\/a> and posted on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/category\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlook archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for May 1 to 28, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a dry April in most of North Carolina, the forecast for May promises better rain chances beginning this weekend as a cold front rolls through. The rest of the month offers some summer-like conditions and chances for more organized weather systems -- and potentially more widespread rainfall.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The outlook below summarizes our expected May weather. It's also <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available as a PDF<\/a> and posted on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/category\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlook archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":726,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/SROutlook_2025May-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for May 1 to 28, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-726\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a dry April in most of North Carolina, the forecast for May promises better rain chances beginning this weekend as a cold front rolls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlooks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}