[Ethereum] hardhat mainnet forking and impersonating an account isnt working, help!

So I'm trying to fork the mainnet using hardhat, impersonate a Dai whale, and transfer its Dai to a hardhat wallet for testing a smart contract, but I'm running into problems.

My code looks like this:

hardhat.config network section:

hardhat: {
      forking: {
        url: process.env.MAINNET_URL || "",
      }
    },

(same as hardhat docs) I tried infura and alchemy urls, same result. I use npx hardhat node to fork the mainnet

I have a script called fundAccount thats supposed to impersonate an account and transfer its Dai balance to a hardhat wallet that looks like this: (I run it with node scripts/fundAccount.js)

const DaiABI = require("../abi/DaiABI.json")
const { ethers } = require("hardhat");
const hre = require("hardhat");

const daiAddress = "0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f"

async function main() {
  const accountToInpersonate = "0x6F6C07d80D0D433ca389D336e6D1feBEA2489264"
  const accountToFund = "0xf39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab8827279cfffb92266"

  await hre.network.provider.request({
    method: "hardhat_impersonateAccount",
    params: [accountToInpersonate],
  });
  const signer = await ethers.getSigner(accountToInpersonate)

  const daiContract = new ethers.Contract(daiAddress, DaiABI, signer)
  const daiBalance = await daiContract.balanceOf(accountToInpersonate)
  console.log("whale dai balance", daiBalance / 1e18)

  console.log("transfering to", accountToFund)

  
  await daiContract.connect(signer).transfer(accountToFund, daiBalance)
  const accountBalance = await daiContract.balanceOf(accountToFund)

  console.log("transfer complete")
  console.log("funded account balance", accountBalance / 1e18)

  const whaleBalanceAfter = await daiContract.balanceOf(accountToInpersonate)
  console.log("whale dai balance after", whaleBalanceAfter / 1e18)


}

main()
  .then(() => process.exit(0))
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

My console output looks like this:

so, it looks like it worked, but it doesn't. I know this because I connected the account to my metamask and I can see the 10000 ether (from hardhat) but no Dai shows up. I also tried removing the line that triggers the transfer in my script so it just reads balances and it looks like this:

another thing is I can run the script over and over and get the same result, meaning the whale balance is never emptied, right? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!!