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Several buoys just east of Charleston are now measuring gusts around 40 kts on the west side of the circulation. With strongest winds on east side it may be a little stronger than 35 kts already

The system looks much more organized this morning with the COC more easily found on first visible images this morning. Overnight convection mainly east of the center has continued and there are some new bursts just east of it as I speak. With shear decreasing and an improved look this morning I would expect steady strengthening until landfall. Probably a 50-55kt ceiling. NHC notes the possibility of center reformation under the bursting convection and the storm has consistently been moving east of track so I wouldn’t be surprised if areas further north than current watch area, maybe up to cape lookout, end up seeing some of the worst weather from this lopsided storm

Satellite imagery is a bit deceiving as the MLC is well east of surface circulation and surface center is diffuse. Will be interesting what NHC goes with at 5, but it’s not far off from a name. IMO this very likely gets named and areas east of landfall have a nasty weekend

It’s a bit of a radar hole but we nickel and dimed our way to 0.32” which is enough to water the yard for the first time in almost 2 weeks Picked up 0.27” more from a couple evening storms. 0.59” on the day

Despite 80-90% rain chances last night we’re sitting at 0.00” storm total here for the front

Monthly stats: Highest temp: 100.8 Days above 100: 3 Rainfall: 1.83” Finished last 10 days of month without rain (except 0.02 over 2 days)

10 days since our last rain and still just 1.83” for the month looks likely to be our total

Missed thunderstorm roulette again but what a beautiful outflow-cooled evening

Awesome afternoon. Played putt putt with the kids and didn’t die like expected

It’s been a wet month for the state my house has been about the only rain hole there has been. Honestly we haven’t had a heavy rain this month. Thankfully first couple weeks provided consistent rains

Hit 100 for 3rd time in 5 days… 100.2 today and managed to miss thunderstorm roulette again. Our 1.83” monthly total looking extremely weak compared to everyone else

98.4, HI 105. Considerably hotter than yesterday here

Topped out at 95 but good news was HI was mostly 100 or less as humidity was way down from last few days

It’s really not that bad out here today. Currently 91 with a HI of 99. Sadly, that feels fine after the last few days

Sometimes storms pick a spot and it just wants to rain there. You’re more than 8” ahead of our monthly total. Storms went all around my yard yesterday afternoon and last night. Rained for probably 3 hours total we picked up 0.02”

Picked up a grand total of 0.02” even though it thundered for at least 4 hours straight. Temps did drop below our morning low, all the way to 78.7

Outflow-cooled 89 now feels like fall lol. Storm east of here has an incredible amount of thunder coming from it

We hit 100.8 but mercifully an outflow from those storms hit and we’ve fallen to 95.1

Explosive atmosphere for anything that developes

Thanks. Glad I’m not a crazy outlier. That 97 in my neighborhood is my house

I must be in my own private heat island because we’re pushing 97 and RDU is only 92. I swear my station hasn’t been tampered with! We’ll see if this levels off. Oh, my heat index is now 111

We’re running about 4 degrees above yesterday’s readings at my house. Already up to 93. Think we crush 100 if we avoid storms and clouds

RDU “low” of 80.1 last night was almost identical to my “low” of 80.2 this is absolute absurd heat we’re dealing with. Today likely to be hotter than yesterday given trends this morning

90.4 at 8:20