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Dang, we got hail again! Just pea sized this time but still... Three times in less than two months. We almost never get hail here. And it's still raining, and our backyard is flooded...

Got a little bit of ~3/8" hail last night... it's a little weird getting hail twice in a couple months, since we rarely see it at all.

Yeah, yesterday and the night before had a winter feel to them, and given time of year and recent warmer weather they even felt a little colder. It was remarkable, but honestly kinda miserable especially for the first week of summer vacation...

We had a pretty good storm today with 1/4in hail (and apparently bigger at my son's school--he came home saying "it was raining ice cubes!" ) But just to the south/southwest they got some nasty hail, and I haven't seen that much purple and white on a radar in a long time, if ever. It got worse after this picture...

Ugh... the neighborhood pool opens 4/1 and I was hoping to make use of it...

Agreed. I had to break out the winter workout clothing again

I guess the one bright spot would be, maybe it would kill off some of these danged gnats...? I got eaten alive at my son's soccer practices this week...

It's absolutely glorious here, 84F at KSAV with a nice breeze and low humidity. I'll take two months of this, please...

It was absolutely beautiful outside today. Sunny and warm without a cloud in the sky most of the day. Unfortunately I had to work so I couldn't fully enjoy it

PDS tornado watch for LA and MS... https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0572.html

Latest NHC track nudged a tiny bit further east with a landfall on Edisto. Out of pure self-interest I continue to wish it further east... Schools here are closed today and tomorrow, citing among other things "high winds... that will create dangerous conditions for the operation of school buses... and unsafe conditions for our walking students". My six year old is devastated. "But Daddy, I want to go to schoooooooool!! "

And it's been pretty wet out here in the western half, at least in the last few weeks. If y'all have been getting so much more... The two feet of water along the back fence finally drained on Wednesday. Was expecting it to come back but it hasn't rained hard out here so far today. Getting sick of clouds and rain and ready for some cooler fall days...

Stepped outside of work to go home and saw the haze. First thought was that they must have been doing another burn at Ft. Stewart... now I know what it was! Caught the eastern edge of that storm, good bit of wind and a little rain. Cooled things off nicely for a bit.

Now if only we could get some rain... but I gotta admit that the lower humidity has been welcome, too.

I've lived in Georgia for 31 years, I'm used to it Doesn't make it any less disappointing though...

I swear, those two heavier precip areas split right around my house and passed by either side. We had thunder all afternoon with nothing but a brief shower, then this leaves us out of most of the fun...

One of my friends knows the guy (and it's in the Twitter thread too)... he had been golfing and couldn't get in the clubhouse because it was locked. I was just out in Pembroke today with some friends helping clear trees from yards. We weren't working in the heaviest hit areas but more right around the start of the track, a block or two west of the courthouse. Even in the areas we went, there was considerable damage. No photos to add unless y'all just want to see some dudes carrying tree limbs and such.

It's not over yet... another Enhanced area for today covering most of Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Tennessee

That looks like it went right over a friend's house

Schools here are starting to dismiss early and/or cancel all after-school activity. 10% hatched tornado and 45% wind here, don't usually see that...

It's not often that we see hail as the primary severe threat down this way...

Oh, that would be nice.... but even then, I'll take the summers here over dealing with what my wife is going to experience in Indianapolis this week. We do NOT do cold well. If I could reset the thermostat for Savannah back to 70+ after New Year's I'd do so. What's funny is that after 15 summers here, metro Atlanta (where we grew up) feels noticeably cooler even in the summer. Visiting our parents is like a break from the heat. I got fully acclimated here from spending all of summer 2015 outside building my workshop so it just doesn't bother me anymore. But back on topic, it seems things are going to warm back up into next week. Maybe it'll stay that way?

Yeah, not looking forward to that at all. Maybe it'll kill off some gnats though?

Yeah, it's getting really old. Had a break for a while before sunrise but now it's raining at the house again...

I guess I'm maybe sort of grateful for a cooler summer, but of the 16 summers I've experienced here I don't think I ever remember one with this many days of cool, saturated, overcast, rainy days. I'm not used to an August forecast having three days of 80-90% pops, either (which is our present forecast for Mon-Wed). It ain't right... I miss seeing those big beautiful pop-up CBs in the afternoon. We may not be that much above average on total rainfall but it sure seems like we are. But it's also driving me nuts because so many of these rainy overcast days have been on my days off--and then it would be nice and sunny out on days I had to work.