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I’m on my second Vantage Vue. I didn’t realize they had come out with a new touchscreen model.

Hardly any rain here in Hickory today, just about one tenth of precipitation. The heavier axis of precipitation never retrograded enough to affect us. Point-and-click forecasts up to an inch of rainfall tonight and over half an inch tomorrow. We shall see, but radar returns are quite paltry over the entire southeast at the moment.

The axis of heaviest rainfall continues to be to the south and east of Hickory, essentially along I-85, this morning. The axis may be drifting ever so slightly north and west, but the point-and-click forecasts seem to be misplaced based on the observed conditions.

Ended up with 1.36 inches overnight since it began at 6:30 PM yesterday evening. No rain currently, and the heavy axis of rain is to our south and east. It appears to be drifting northward, but we shall see. .

Made it up to 78.4 today after not reaching 70 either of the previous two days. My low this morning was 61.7. Very nice for August 4! Currently 66.8 and moderate rain. .

Started raining around 6:30 PM. I have accumulated 0.6 inch of rain so far, or 0.15 inch per hour, which is way more than the 0.03 inch per hour shown in the hourly forecast on the point and click from NWS. We have already exceeded the “quarter to half inch” of rainfall we were supposed to get overnight, and the night is still very young. Lots of moisture downstream. The HiRes NAM forecast of close to six inches over the next 60 hours looks much more likely to transpire than the GFS forecast of an inch or so. .

I got an inch and a half of rain overnight. Crazy! Was not expecting that. Cool and cloudy right now. .

Nope! Got close though: 69.9 was the high.

67.3 F at 12:30 PM on 8/2 is awesome! .

That’s a post @jburns would have endorsed with enthusiasm!

So sad to logon and see this banner post at the top of the page. @jburns was such a good moderator, but an even better story teller. He had a quick wit, and I truly enjoyed his posts. He loved that Archdale snowstorm from back in the day. That grill photo was iconic. He was also quite proud of his weed yard, letting us all know it stayed green year round without any special attention, while the rest of us anguished over our turf diseases we were fighting. He also loved to talk of the snowstorms from the Floyd, VA, days. Those were epic winters, and some crazy times. I will miss him greatly on this forum. From all I experienced, you had a truly great dad, @RaleighNC. This place will not be the same without him.

This is a true frog strangler. Almost two inches and still pouring. All of that in the past hour or so. Downstream looks juicy… .

I’m with @Met1985 , it can stay cool for all summer, as far as I am concerned. I have loved this cool May! It’s been awesome. I was in PA yesterday, and wore a sweater over my shirt all day because it didn’t make it out of the 50s. That’s awesome for May 28! .

I love Anchorage. Spent a summer there about 20 years ago. Have been back on several summer trips since then. Never experienced a winter, though. Are you in the military? Going to be stationed at JBER? .

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Back to clear blue skies now: