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5 hours ago, ravensrule said:

I’m terribly sorry to hear that. You know they have medicine for that. 

Lol - However with deep concentration and focus and with much help from Ms Mother Nature , she finally got me over the elusive 2 inch mark for the first time in months... However that may have been the max , I highly doubt 3 inches is attainable....

4 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Ended up with 1.07" for the event.  .41 yesterday and .66" overnight.

Dare I say this is the rare event where west of the BR wins?

Yeah this one was a real nice event for the I81 Valley area..... Finished with 1.40 , almost double any event since January... Actually up to 2.10 for the month now... First 2 inch month since yep January...!

A favorite type of afternoon , this heavy drizzle fine tropical type of rain that radar dosent see as well is putting down some much needed rain..2/3  inch... With luck may get a 1 inch event for the first time since the last big January event...

Visitor for the last hour just sitting there, in the breezy conditions and the sunshine showers combo - really bright and showery at the same time... Real tropical look outside.... Up to 0.25 which is nice for us down here...

Nothing really showing on radar so far , but a nice heavy drizzle up to about a tenth the last couple of hours... winds starting to pickup now...

Us on the other hand - 300 yards away from my gauge , exact match....

29 minutes ago, katabatic said:

This has been, by far, the biggest overall rain event since I moved to the Boonies in October of 2022. 1.49" so far today and a storm total since Monday morning of 3.78". Currently raining about a third of an inch per hour but earlier this morning, it briefly touched nearly 2". The storm's caboose looks to provide a sloppy April snow show keeping the need for any post-winter sunscreen for my bald head at bay.

Awesome ! Yeah you guys most certainly need a dry period up there....

49 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Hopefully someone is getting the drought thread ready the moment we hit 5 days of sun/no precip.  

Aready hit that criteria multiple times !!!  Lol

The difference in precip totals the last year and half have been astounding in a state this size.... If it was Houston to Amarillo yeah fine totally different climate , But a hour or 90 min ride in any dang direction shouldn't be that big of a discrepancy even though the central and northern valley does indeed avg a few inches less in yearly precip....

0.04 

Monthly total 0.05

Solid shower from a tstorm tonight in 90% of Waynesboro driving home from work , probably a quarter to a third except for the nw corner of town again.... Yep 0.01 less than a mile from a solid downpour... The reds on radar just simply disappeared...Which is a pattern for some reason for this small area from convective activity...

1.85 for March - even less than Stormy .... 2 consecutive months under 2 inches.... 0.00 since midnight.... With the exception of Nov Dec Jan almost every month going back to the end of 22 has been below average on precip...

Another impressively windy afternoon here with winds gusting easily into the 40s..... The drying out continues..

0.14 

Monthly total 1.84

Exactly 3.50 since the end of January.... Should start seeing abornomaly dry showing up on the drought monitor soon along the 81 corridor... Hate the word fire but now there is a elevated wildfire risk out here again this evening - NWS statement...

18 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Shutout completely today in the land of drought.

This pattern really is beginning to look very familiar and foreboding for the Valley again ...  Not going to get close to 2 inches for the month it appears down here...

0.65 yesterday

March total  1.70 

6 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

We are smoked out again here.  There is a fire burning somewhere upwind.

6 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

We are smoked out again here.  There is a fire burning somewhere upwind.

Same, just drove to Cville for work on I64 through constant smoke...Highly dislike this, last year with all the smoke was hard to deal with bc of personal reasons - lost something 4 years ago because of a home fire that can never be replaced...

6 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Watch out he’ll gladly tell you about the latest rainfall forecasts  

Can't speak for him, but we kinda need Friday night to come to fruition out here for rainfall.... Right at 2.71 total precip since January 28th.... With another day here with winds gusting in the 40s and the growing season starting - Its drying out pretty fast....

13 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Hard not to put together the pattern of how teams/general managers/owners value and compare:

1.  Athletic/mobile black QBs

2.  Traditional drop back pocket passing white QBs

Color aside , teams have a better chance to win more games with Kirk than with Justin at this point, it is no longer a build for the future league, it's a win now league - it's that simple... After all the Bears are going to replace Justin with another black mobile QB who might be a better passer ... The final game still features QBs that are primarily big time passers whether they are mobile/athletic or not and regardless of color...........

Just under 0.20 here ... mainly just heavy drizzle here all morning... As expected another underperforming event.. Been a consistent radar gap  most of the morning Waynesboro up toward Harrisonburg .. 

50 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Headed quickly into another drought. 

Still early , but if Saturday's rainfall ends up being mainly east of the Blue Ridge once again or we dry slot,  gotta wonder if we are headed that way again.... The early trend is definitely there....

0.18 since Monday 

0.35 monthly total

1.65 for February 

Exactly 2 inches since the last big January system...

On 2/29/2024 at 12:50 PM, wxdude64 said:

Neighbor has been keeping up with weather numbers while I am gone (and feeding kitty), texted this morning and updated today for end of month for CoCoRaHS, so here goes.....

Averaged high temp for month was 52.9 degrees vs a normal of 46.0 degrees, a +6.9 degrees above average. The warmest day was the 27th with a 65.7 degree reading. Averaged low was 28.7 degrees vs a normal of 24.0 degrees, a +4.7 degrees above average. The coldest reading was 18.8 degrees on the 18th. Overall averaged temp was 40.8 degrees vs a normal of 35.0 degrees, a +5.8 degrees above average. Total precip for the month was 2.25 inches vs a normal of 2.67, a -0.42 below average. The wettest day was the 13th with 0.72 inches falling. There were 10 days with measurable, 4 days with a 'T' and 15 dry days. Total snowfall for the month was a terrible 'T' vs a normal of 5.9 inches, -5.9 inches below average with 4 days that occurring, 1st, 13th, 16th and 17th. Rest of month was snowless. This ties for 2nd least snowiest Feb with 1990/91/99 and 2017 and just behind 1988's completely snowless month. The highest wind recorded for month was 39 mph on the 14th. Two new records, both new 'warm minimum's, set on 11th and 12th. Overall, a very warm and semi-dry month, with hardly any snow. 

Still in CA (today is wife's last official 'working day', retirement together commences tomorrow), headed to Park City tomorrow (least I will get my snow fix in) to see son a couple of days, then driving back home starting Monday. 

Driving across the country, or making a circle around the country is a amazing experience.... 3 years ago we did a circle - I did all the driving , rental car receipt said 5495 miles in 10 days ......

On 3/2/2024 at 10:06 AM, stormy said:

.38" last 24 hrs.. The Central Valley has been dry for the past month.  The cutoff has been the Blue Ridge. Charlottesville received 1.00" past 24.

Yup in my last post a few days ago, I mentioned how I didn't like how this was beginning to trend...

Snow flakes falling in Waynesboro... Accumulating snow along Skyline Drive according to traffic cams ..

Only received 0.93 inches of total precip this month , following 6.58 for January.... Since mid November we have for the most part made up for that crushing drought in the Valley last year, but heading into the spring growing season down here we certainly don't want a drier than normal March following this February... The drought may have ended but it was still going strong only 3 months ago... Not sure if the ground water level has fully recovered yet...