Herb@MAWS

Literally … taking center stage in Thursday evening image.

First measurable August rainfall imby today — 0.04”

Bottomed out at 61.4 IMBY / east side Columbia.

Reached my low temp for today (so far) this evening. Current 76; a.m. low 77

East side of Columbia so far today: 1.06” today 9.23” July

0.65” imby from that first cell. Temp dropped from 87 to 82.

Pouring in Columbia along with a little thunder.

A bit more rain fell imby after the 4pm main storm: 1.80” today 8.17” July

Afternoon gully washer has passed thru. So far: 1.66” today, 8.03” for July

Thumping and dumping big time around Columbia.

A whopping 0.06” overnight.

On east side of Columbia …. had a trace around 9:30pm. Enough to wetten down grass etc. I could see the edge of the main cell and the intense lightning to my NE. And loud thunder, before everything headed away. Probably missed me by no more than 5 miles or so.

Good quality sounding booms off to my north (from Columbia). Also some building cumulus at sunset in N&NW skies. Radar has something to the north, heading SE-ward so it could be a good hit …. or a swing and a miss. Will know shortly.

Got to 90 here late in afternoon. A bit surprised, didn’t think this morning I’d get there. Still 81 here now at 9:30pm But was outside mowing, working etc earlier from 12-2pm and I found it to be awful. Sweating profusely. The grass got unusually high … unusually quickly … in the past week.

0.40” in today’s late afternoon storm. 6.37” for July so far.