Maggie Valley Steve

I've picked up a little over 3 inches since the rain began last Wednesday night. We had 3 brief tropical downpours today.

Just had a round of torrential rain that lasted about half hour here in the Valley.

Just emptied the rain gauge. 2.04 inches since last Wednesday night.

Just updated...

The models are suggesting a rather sharp trough axis will develop in Texas and extend down to the Yucatan later this week into next weekend. It's not unusual this time of year to see a broad area of low pressure to fester near the Western Caribbean and Western to Central Gulf in such a setup. I wouldn't be surprised to see copious deep tropical moisture setup over all the SE including the Mountains. We'll need to monitor early this week for any potential tropical mischief attempting to organize W of Florida later this week.

Thank you Shell. What prompted my post was seeing our neighbors just last week talking of their own experience with PTSD. Ike and Harvey exposed my own battles. But knowledge and preparation eases the stress.

I picked up another .90 today making my total so of 1.65 inches. Very grateful for the rain!

Hey Larry. I am aware of the Main Tropical thread, but personally I don't post or get involved in those board wide threads anymore. My focus is purely local and regional and I was wondering if there's interest with any other like minded folks in the SE Region.

Moderate rain with thunder. I'd like you folks input on starting our own SE Region Tropical thread. I know how much trauma Helene brought to our Mountain neighbors. My primary weather focus has always been tropical going up along the Upper Texas Coast. The SE Region covers a tremendous amount of Coastline from Mississippi to the Outer Banks. El Ninos tend to throw a curveball or two not far offshore. If you think the SE posters would participate, let me know.

Woke up to rain again this morning. Third day in a row with rain. I've received about 3/4 of an inch so far.

Already raining at the house this morning.

I missed out today, but the moisture is here!

GSP issued a Special Weather Statement for the storm near Enka a few minutes ago. It's been a while!

Unfortunately we experienced investors swoop in during COVID and establish near 500 new properties for short term rentals. It killed the year round local hosts and certainly Helene didn't help. That said we're getting booking frequently now, perhaps we've turned a corner.

Nice to see a few afternoon pulse thunderstorms firing along the Mountains. That bodes well for the rest of the week into the weekend!

This is a different animal altogether. This TUTT low has traversed the Atlantic along with the Saharan Dust currently moving into the far Eastern Caribbean.

Keep an eye on the TUTT low generally heading W from the NE of the Bahamas. That feature could assist with some much needed rainfall across portions of the SE.

It looks like a significant pattern change is coming this week with a stalling boundary that will extend back into Texas. Rounds of rain will move across the Mountains later this week and possibly into the weekend. I'm seeing a pesky trough building in and lowering pressure across the Gulf as a monsoonal trough begins to organize in the Western Caribbean. Our sensible weather suggests that we begin to see an El Nino pattern slowly become established and rain chances increase all across the SE Region. Keep an eye on an early tropical system slowly organizing somewhere in the Gulf at the end of May or early June.

37 at the house this morning.

39 this morning in the Valley.

Front porch weather on this Mother's Day afternoon!

Of course you are! Nice NW breeze and dryer air as arrived. I ended up with 1.2 inches of rain.

I've got over an inch in the rain gauge and still coming down lightly.

Light to moderate rain has filled back. Radar upstream looks promising for continued rain throughout the evening. The longer range guidance continues to advertise a general trough continuing across WNC into at least mid May. That suggests rain chance will continue with fronts arriving every several days!

We've had breaks in the clouds this afternoon and humidity and temperatures have risen by 15 degrees.