Will rain from Fay ease N.C.'s drought?

LAKE NORMAN, N.C. -- On Lake Norman on Monday afternoon, Bill Basinger and his wife were racing the thunder clouds to pull their sailboat out of the water and end a weekend at the lake.

“So much for the day on the water,” Basinger said. “Yesterday was beautiful, the day before was beautiful, so you can only complain so much."

That rain that rolled in was exactly what most of the Carolinas need. For all of you with dry lawns, Mother Nature is turning on her sprinklers this week

First Warn Storm Team meteorologist John Wendel says the computer models are forecasting as much as 5 inches of rain. That's a best-case scenario, but if we got it, it would practically erase our rain deficit.

And that may just be the beginning.

The Climate Prediction Center forecasts above average rainfall for the next 30 days. Longer term looks good too.

“Over the next 90 days, they are still forecasting normal amounts of rainfall, which is still great," Wendel said. “You don't end a drought in a one-day, two-day, three-day period, unless you get rain like they have in Florida."

In hurricane season, it’s a possibility.