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0.78 this event 4.72 monthly

Impressive lightning display along 64 east of Charlottesville... Almost nonstop higher up cloud to cloud bolts branching out in the sky...

3.89 with the persistent drizzle slowly raising my total throughout the day... Nice event for the groundwater down here...

That particular gfs run really does look like Agnes from 72..

Hurricane Agnes part 2 ?

Right at 3.70 with several early morning storms , drizzle now.. Very rainy night down here..I realized early on as a kid , early morning thunder storms in the mts down here usually means a soaking overall storm system...

Very rainy night so far down here either side of the Blue ridge , between Waynesboro and Charlottesville.. Upsloping definitely kicking in with this latest band.... Sitting in the jeep for about 30 min listening to the pounding on the roof despite just getting home from work.... The wife is asleep so I would rather listen to this then go inside...

Tropical line moving west through Albemarle at the moment.... pretty breezy at times with the tropical downpour...

Soaking tropical rain between Charlottesville and Waynesboro at the moment... Some upslope enhancement likely helping...

Up to .67 in persistent tropical like heavy drizzle and occasional brief heavier showers ...

Lamar needs to play better in consistent passing situations or in the playoffs when running from the qb spot is usually more hindered if he wants a ring in todays NFL....Unfortunately for Ravens fans that is not the best part of his game... Last year was set up perfectly for this team with the AFC qb injuries and home field advantage and a healthy Jackson for 17 games....Not likely to be that perfect a setup again....

I'll post the same thing I posted this past January - (I am not a Ravens fan , I am a usually miserable Jets fan a lifelong disaster franchise)... Just my opinion but last season seemed like the best chance for this current Ravens cast of players to win a title... No Rodgers , Herbert or Burrow in the playoffs, essentially a healthy Ravens team only had to beat the underwhelming team of either Allen/Mahomes winner at home... Had the Ravens at 10 7 and wildcard this year if Jackson stayed healthy for a 2nd consecutive year..

Strange 5 weeks - streams coming out of the southern SNP went from completely dry or a trickle to raging floodwaters to back to either completely dry or barely a trickle again.... Indicative of low groundwater I guess, everything is still nice and green though....

1.16 earlier , final monthly total of 7.52... Only above normal month since Jan, haven't added up the numbers yet, but Jan/Aug combo is certainly well above the other 6 months combined for my backyard...

I'll never forget a winter storm in the late 90s.. As a 20 yr old in nw Albemarle I got annoyed that it was going to be all rain east of the Blue Ridge- with snow in the valley... So I drove up to the top of Afton on 250 in the middle of that night... In front of my car looking toward Waynesboro - 8 inches of snow & giant flakes falling, behind my car was bare ground and heavy rain... Within 50 feet that big of a difference- that was a strange feeling....

No idea, at work again today -getting ready to drive back from Richmond .. The Mrs ain't home either... The radar sure looks awful nice !! But I've been mislead by that dam thing quite often this summer with thunderstorm activity ..

It almost got me right with Deb and last night it was off by only 0.02.. But there has been times when it has been off by way more than a inch... for August it has me at 6.41 I'm at 6.36

Middle of the night showers upped it to 0.10 But you still got me !

Daily total 0.01

Thank goodness again for Deb - for the central valley .......

Actually just picked up about 0.32 in a surprise thundershower... 3rd biggest single tstorm total of the year..

Thank God for Deb - monthly total without her is 0.03 ... 5.93 with her !! Everything looks so much different and so much better over the past week so hopefully this dosent turn into another 2 or 3 months of desert dryness here in the central valley.. But if it does at least I got to experience a personal top 15 or 20 weather event with Ms Deb that night lol

Amazing difference in a week, everything is so much greener , insects seem more noisy at night--water flowing in previously dry creek beds.... Everything just feels better...... In a way I guess the extreme drought helped mitigate physical damage... There is some substantial road damage in western Green County where up to 11 inches of rain fell.. Things could/would have been so much more destructive had this been a wet year out here.... However the summer agricultural drought damage has been extreme - hopefully the late summer / fall agricultural production will be much more successful....

Two days ago this was a trickle , couple weeks ago it was dry... The Moormans River in western Albemarle at the SNP border... It was about 3.5 feet higher than this picture taken this afternoon, judging by the flattened grass and debris....Western Virginia so desperately needed this...

Fits nicely with what radar was showing for a few hours around midnight.... Was an ominous looking radar for awhile there with intense rain locked in over the Shenandoah NP and both immediate sides of the mts...