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48.1 F here this morning in the urban heat island of NE Hickory. Lots of new housing going up in this area.

47.8 F for my low this morning!

3.42 for me. Very similar to @Ernest T Bass .

Been steadily raining this evening, but I think y’all got more to my west again. Just shy of 1.5 inches now since midnight, but hardly any returns on radar.

Wow! Y’all are killin’ it in the rain gauge. I got close to an inch since midnight, but your totals are much heavier.

Why is it being retired? Does it really cost anything to just let it run indefinitely?

Over an inch and a half of rain and still falling. Crazy storm total.

Sitting in my drive for the past 15 minutes because it has been raining so hard, and I don’t wanna make a break for it. Pea size hail, too! First hail I have witnessed this year. Eager to see the gauge totals when I get inside.

Your spaceship description was spot on. It had those low white wispy clouds out front and then just dark, dark, blue grey behind. The wind and rain were both fierce. I ended up with 1.01 inches this morning. According to NWS, more to come this afternoon/evening…

Amazing looking storm. Insane rain once it hit, too. Here’s a couple pics I took.

What ya doing down in the lowlands, @Met1985 ? I would think the heat/humidity combo would be intolerable for a mountain man such as yourself! (It’s intolerable for us, too!)

Yep. That was intense! Finished with 0.63 inch of rainfall and about a thousand lightning flashes. Lots of wind, too.

That rain may not survive the mountains this afternoon. They keep shredding any showers with which they interact. Outside is a rather weird filtered sunshine through very high level clouds here in Hickory.

I ended up with 0.67 inch for the day. There may be another complex rolling through this afternoon/evening based on radar analysis upstream, but again, NWS doesn't seem to make much of it.

Big rains appear to be incoming. Heavy stuff first and then a lot of light stuff for a while afterwards. The NWS forecast this morning barely mentioned any rainfall threat, and now we are about to have our second round of significant rainfall today.