Maggie Valley Steve

Perfect setup with a dying tropical system and a stalled boundary. Looks like I picked up over 2 inches since 7 PM last night. I'll dump my rain gauge at 7 for a good reading.

We'll need to watch overnight in the Mountains. Radar suggests the frontal boundary is sagging into our area. Storms are beginning to fill in as we get a nocturnal increase of South Westerly winds associated with increasing Gulf moisture.

Flash Flood Watch issued beginning at 8 this evening until Thursday evening.

Looks like storms are headed our way tonight. Keep the Eastern trough coming!

After another round of thunderstorms overnight, another chance today with rainfall rates up to 3 inches per hour are possible.

It's been raining and thundering the past hour with gusty winds and occasional heavy rainfall rates. Currently 70 with moderate rain.

Showers were nearby today and mostly cloudy skies held my temperature in the low 80's. It sure looks like the Eastern trough will become active into the end of July. I'll take a mid summer pattern like that offering rain chances nothing too hot any day!

It was good to see the Sun today! Clouds built in around lunch time and kept temperatures in the upper 70's. Not bad for the middle of July.

It looks like an unsettled pattern will continue this week into the weekend. For the Mountains, high temperatures should remain mostly in check throughout the period with daily storms. We'll need to monitor the weekend as there appears to be potential for a tropical disturbance attempting to organize along the Northern Gulf or off the West Coast of Florida along the stalled frontal boundary to our South.

I'm getting a little concerned with the repeated rounds of heavy rain. The WPC has concerns also.

Looks like another Mesoscale Convective System is heading our way from Central Tennessee tonight.

Happy Birthday Buckethead!

No rain today, but it was a little drier and a bit cooler. My high temperature was 82. Storms are still firing along the Tennessee border so maybe a nighttime shower is ahead.

It never hit 80 here at the house today. Clouds began bubbling around lunch time and off an on showers during the afternoon.

We've been getting a thundershowers the past half hour. Happy Birthday America!