{"id":844,"date":"2026-04-02T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:56:34","slug":"short-range-outlook-for-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/short-range-outlook-for-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Range Outlook for April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2026\/04\/severe-pollen-severe-drought-and-severe-storms-ramp-up-in-march\/\">5th-driest March on record<\/a> in North Carolina, the April outlook offers little relief for the ongoing drought and fire season. After showers and storms this Sunday, the forecast is overwhelmingly dry for the middle and end of the month, with warm weather to boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That outlook is summarized in the graphic below and available for <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr.pdf\">download as a PDF<\/a> or viewable within our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\">outlooks 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\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for April 2 to 29, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Following our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2026\/04\/severe-pollen-severe-drought-and-severe-storms-ramp-up-in-march\/\">5th-driest March on record<\/a> in North Carolina, the April outlook offers little relief for the ongoing drought and fire season. After showers and storms this Sunday, the forecast is overwhelmingly dry for the middle and end of the month, with warm weather to boot.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That outlook is summarized in the graphic below and available for <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr.pdf\">download as a PDF<\/a> or viewable within our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\">outlooks archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":840,\"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\/2026\/04\/SROutlook_2026Apr-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for April 2 to 29, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-840\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our 5th-driest March on record in North Carolina, the April outlook offers little relief for the ongoing drought and fire season. After showers and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-844","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\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}