I think GSO has benefited from a lot of frequent convection (and associated cloud cover), outflows, and MCS systems that other areas in the Carolina’s missed out on.
Clouds helping us out some today. Only 89 at the moment. Ridiculously dew point of 77 still gives us a HI of 102 though. Been rough in central NC this summer. Seems significant warmer than normal
We’re in the 3rd week of July and we have people posting with certainty that the season is over? I’ve been away from this thread bc we are not in the meat of hurricane season and yet people are declaring it dead or a bust? I’m not even going to justify my reasoning, but please get back to me in October.
Were at the point now where long range progs for below average temps in both winter and summer mean nothing more than a day or two below average. This is a painful summer
Only problem with mid afternoon storms. I love when they push through at 6 vs 4 like now.
We had a heck of a close lightning strike and some of the heaviest rain this summer for a brief time. A few small hail stones as well. Almost no wind which was surprising. Still raining. Temp has fallen to 76
We’re in the middle of about my least favorite weather pattern imaginable. Hot, humid, almost no storm chances, no relief on horizon. Get ready, the next week + is going to hurt
Subsidence behind the coastal plains storms kept an area of stable air along the part of the US1 corridor yesterday. Every storm weakened and died moving into it. We picked up 0.06” and that was from a very potent storm that collapsed on approach. 4.71” for the month
Did not quite get an inch yesterday but the 0.85” we did get from an unexpected very rainy day brought us to 4.65” over the last week and for the month. What a drought busting rainfall for many areas in central and eastern nc
Finally got a rainfall over 1/2” maybe some more to come? Sitting at 0.57” so far, all of which fell in 20 min.
Ended with 1.21” which brings the MTD (and our 3 day total) to 1.73”
RDU was 2 degrees warmer than my house yesterday and 4 degrees warmer today. That’s pretty significant variation for being so close. We did however receive close to a half inch of rain more than them last month and a half inch more than them so far this month