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I found the 40's in Minnesota.  I'm gonna enjoy this for a couple days and I will hitch a cold front to the plane and drag it on down for the SE peeps.  

This is AWESOME!  

Like I thought.  October hangs on with more of the same, just 80's instead of 90's, and then November will fall off a cliff.  We'll get about 2 weeks of fall this year and most of this board will go postal and start smashing their weather stations.  Please post any coupon codes you find for replacements.

Indian summer is one thing, but this month is a whole new ballgame.  We're making history in many ways.

Just now, FallsLake said:

And the spiders. I've been running into webs every morning. 

And the Chiggers, and the ticks, and now the stink bugs are looking to get back inside.  HORRIBLE year for bugs!!

Who cares about temps being in the 60's and 70's when it is only because of heavy fog and rainy conditions.  This has to be overall the most crappy year of weather I can remember.  And at this point, if I dont get my extended fall, I sure as heck dont want to dive straight into a cold and snowy winter.  

Groundhog day forecast for much of this week and weekend.  Bring on October.

I'm pretty sure the site was down so long that we missed fall and our early winter storms.  Time for the spring 2019 forecast.  

Seriously, is there an explanation posted somewhere.  Did the site get hacked or was it server issues?

1 hour ago, NCSNOW said:

Sadly the death toll is up to 32 from Florence. and as feared the Cape Fear is setting new records for all time highs at many gauges. Heres a bfore and after pic I saw. This river flooding is going to be historic as many of us guessed it would be. Florence will be one of the top 10 costliest Hurricane disasters in our countrys history.

Not saying the pic above isnt bad, it certainly has an impact.  But in reality the houses and infrastructure still stand.  The beach and dunes were basically moved 100 feet inland and covered the road.  This happens with many storms and can easily be fixed.  Its the water damage and flooding pics that resonate with me the most.  There is simply no recovery.  Roads must be reconstructed, not just repaved.  Sewer and water lines, gas lines, electrical wires, homes, cars, livestock, literally everything. 

8 hours ago, Tenman Johnson said:

Florence giving us in DC some serious t&l and downpours. What I had for 20 minutes you had for 24+ hours. Unimaginable.

24 hours x 2 in some places.  Here in the triad we had between 6-8" over roughly a 36 hour run.  The Dan River up in Danville VA was near its all time high I think.  There were many places, almost the entire sandhills region SE of Raleigh down to the coast, that received steady rainfall for 48 hours or more.  There are rivers cresting this morning over 30' above flood stage next to towns with zero elevation.  New Bern, Kinston, Jacksonville.  And even littler towns like Pollocksville NC which may cease to exist after this.  

An unprecendented catastrophy.  Flo made her mark in history.

Radar is loaded for the triad now.  Just drove back from VA through Danbury and Walnut Cove.  Lots of big branches coming out of trees into the roads.  Lots of road flooding out of ditches.  The Dan River was as high as I have seen in a long while and there will be inches of rain still to fall over the next day or so.  Gonna get ugly.

Also, Forsyth County schools 2 hr delay tomorrow.

Good grief is Flo even moving anymore?  She is still drinking off the atlantic like a 7-11 big gulp.  The radar is loaded for another 6-8 hours.  If feel for those folks down east, but now I'm starting to worry about the folks around CLT and across the southern piedmont.  The flooding is going to get scary bad real quick tomorrow with another 6-12" to go.  There is just no way to prepare for this type of destruction across an entire state.

25 minutes ago, Powerball said:

Yet again, ATL made it to 95*F today (at 1pm). The record high was 97*F, set in 1991.

Now we're getting a heavy rain shower from a shortwave rotating around Florence. No thunder though.

If I made it to 95 here in the triad in mid sept after the summer we've all had across the southeast........i just dont wanna say.  But it might be on the 11 oclock news.

7 hours ago, mackerel_sky said:

The longer we hold off winter , the better! 1995/1996 redux incoming! Was warm all the way through October, then hammer dropped!

Yeah, but just like we had no spring, I definitely dont wanna give up my fall.  Best time of the year!  If we go from 80's to 50's me and mother nature are gonna have a chat.  (She'll win of course)

3 minutes ago, Jebman said:

God please help this storm to move much faster and weaken. I can't even imagine what southeast NC is going through with those relentless rain bands. Hopefully the rain bands weaken and move on. God please have a lot of mercy on the people of North and South Carolina.

Not gonna happen looking at the radar.  Florence still dropping the hammer for many more hours.  She's still feeding off the ocean.  If the flooding wasnt already out of control, it sure will be by the end of today.  

If anyone has family left in that area that has not evacuated, get them out.  This cleanup will take weeks, not hours, not days.

Those poor folks in SeNC.  Look at the neverending fetch on radar.  They are getting destroyed with rain right now and likely for the 12 hours.  Easily another foot of rain.  Then they have to worry about how much falls west of them.  

Florence has left a very, very large mark on the state.

Just now, NCSNOW said:

NWS. Issued flood warning ,not watch for about 6 counties in the triad till like 900 tonight

Has a precautionary feel to it.  It really isnt bad at all across the triad....fortunately.

30 minutes ago, Chubbiegull said:

I need to get to Charleston from Rocky Mount NC - daughter is having baby tomorrow ... DOT says 95 closed around Dunn . Wants to re route me to Hickory !!!!

 

Can anyone pinpoint roads off 95 that are flooded - I was thinking 95 to 40 to Clinton back to 95 around Lumberton -- once past Lumberton should be good to charleston

 

Lumber River not supposed to Crest until Monday

 

No way they would recommend Hickory.  There have to be 15-20 routes south you could take before that.  Just go 64 to Raleigh and then South to Fayetteville.  If they were only recommending interstates then they wouldnt have to go further than 85 to Charlotte and then back to 95.  

Hickory is crazy.  Who recommended that?

The downstream flooding with this will be historic.  The flooding that occured as a result of surge in places like Kinston and New Bern was bad enough.  I worry they havent seen the worst.  3/4ths of the state is going to get 5+" of rain.  Most of the upstream network will get more than that.  And the rivers were already running high from rains earlier last week.

A lot of folks still need to be evacuating.

Per radar, it should be hammering in raleigh right now.  Anybody have a report or is everyone without power?

Curious if the banding coming thru Durham and just south of 85 is just heavy rain or is it packing TS force winds too? Looks strong!

Water is coming over the wall in Little Washington.  Rolling over the sidewalk and slowly into the street.  High tide will put another foot or so into the downtown area later tonight.  So any other surge on top of what is there will ultimately determine if downtown floods again or not.  

Several water front houses down river towards the sound already have water at their doors.  Gonna be a nailbiter.

1 minute ago, mryanwilkes said:

Do you have a link? 

Go to ablivesurf.com

Atlantic Beach pier cam is getting ROCKED!!  Hard to tell but I think it is missing pieces at least on the right side vs what I saw before.  No way that pier stands up to 12+ hours of this pounding.

Atlantic Beach Pier is about to go down.  The waves are knocking the end of the pier sideways.  Wont be long.

With the slight shift north and the expanding wind fields I have serious concerns for the Pamlico Sound /Tar River area around Little Washington.  The downtown area there regularly floods with lesser systems.  Anything approaching a  9-10' surge wont end well for those businesses.

Bad time for maintenence, good time for a weakening Florence.  Recon finding 956mb, similar to Fran 954mb at landfall I think, and an expanding wind field.  Not sure she's gonna tighten back up.  

8 minutes ago, Orangeburgwx said:

Just... What... A 140mi wide eye?!

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/MJVentrice/status/1039895342609772544

Thats amazing.  If you get the full eye you would have time to clean up the yard, wash the car, grill some burgers and take a nap before the backside comes thru!

Cant imagine that is accurate?!