I drove down to Little River, SC yesterday to pick up our new dog and actually rain through a brief rain shower on my way back. It was officially 0.01”, but that’s 0.01” more than I’ve seen in a month. I had forgotten what rain was like.
Yes, it was constant there for a while. Like you, the better rain was to my south, but at least we received about half an hour of a sustained borderline downpour.
I used to say that weeds and grass looked similar when cut to a couple of inches. That is until I moved to a neighborhood where I’m surrounded by one-acre manicured lawns that look like a Pinehurst fairway the Tuesday before the US Open. That’s a lot of pressure to put on a person.
This would be nice weather for six weeks ago, but not for September 25th. I guess we’re looking at October 4th or 5th at the earliest until we get a taste of fall.
I don’t expect much IMBY other than a breeze. Doubt we see much rain. After four days without power during Michael last year, I’m just not in the mood. As far OTS as possible is what I’m cheering for. We’ve had a long string of evening thunderstorms and heavy rains up until about a couple of weeks ago and we’ve since dried out. So I think we could handle the rain here. I just dislike the wind.
I’ve been under this ever-growing cell in northern Guilford for the past hour or so. Continuous rumbles of thunder and hard rain. I want to go to bed, but my German Shepherd is an outdoor dog and he sleeps on the screened-in back porch at night and he’s not really a fan of loud thunder. He’s not terribly scared of it. He just likes company during thunderstorms.
I’m moving from 3 miles west of downtown GSO to 11 miles north of downtown GSO. Being farther away from the I-40/I-85 battle zone hopefully increases my chances for wintry precip. I can’t complain though. At the old house, I did pretty well most winters. This upcoming season should be interesting.
I’m so sick of this humid heat though. Bring on the months ending in BER.
The ridiculously obvious rule of thumb in NC is those north and/or west of a given location will usually receive more winter accumulation during any given season. Even within a single county. Individual storms might pan out differently, but this rule seems to hold true over an entire winter.
I’ve been wondering. If you were to piece together the various call maps from adjacent NWS field offices, would the accumulation projections along their border counties match up fairly well? Has anyone ever seen a 10” call for one county and then 2” in a neighboring county forecasted by another NWS office?