NorthHillsWx

Fay looks like it’s trying. Kinda like its first bout with flirting with hurricane intensity, about an 18 hour window this go round before the shear arrives

If it wasn’t for the stable environment surrounding Fay now we’d have a mid latitude microcane. Decent looking system on visible but very clearly limited by dry air surrounding it

Spoke too early, a rain shower developed and dropped temps. Currently at 57.7 so first 50’s of the season at my location!

Finished with 0.07 yesterday and 0.18” storm total. 2.08” MTD. Looks extremely likely September will finish as yet another month well below normal in the rainfall department. 60.2 out this morning, still haven’t cracked the 50’s but should tonight

61.2 with light rain/drizzle. Just a few hundredths of an inch so far. Will almost certainly finish a "storm" total under 1/4" (including yesterdays rain), pretty big disappointment given modeling, forecast and SPC flood risks for the area coming into the event. Western NC big winner again

Appears as if Fay has come back from the dead

We crushed you here: 0.11” It did bring the MTD total over two inches, 2.01”

Looked like fuquay got good rain since you posted. Had 2 heavy showers my way but coverage seems much more limited than expected

Blanked here too, but today looks like it will likely be very wet

I know Fay operationally came just short and there likely will not be enough data for a post-season upgrade, but around the time and shortly after these images were taken it would not surprise me if the storm became a brief hurricane.

Valiant effort. Next.

Last few frames of satellite look like an eye feature is forming. Very likely close to hurricane strength at the moment and still time to strengthen

I think our hurricane-less streak is ending at 5 pm

Looking at satellite trends this is easily our best chance to break the hurricane drought of 2026

These storms tend to surprise you when they form under the conditions highlighted in your post. Would not be the first time a system south of the azores was dismissed only to pop an eye and surprise everyone. Agreed on the upgrade here, would almost have to acquire the eye for an upgrade as it is going to be extremely challenging to get a well timed ASCAT this afternoon when it peaks