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It's crazy dark and windy here in Hickory. Feels and looks like snow. Raging virga storm on radar.

2.92 for me

I picked up almost one half inch between midnight at 6:30 AM. That was after another 0.2 between 6-9 PM. Rainfall is also on our doorstep again this morning. This is all very welcome.

50 at my place. Late September looks above average. We all knew we would pay for this eventually right?

I will gladly trade above average late September for below average August. Seems like an obvious win to me.


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Went camping at Roan Mountain SP this weekend. Phenomenal weather other than a passing shower or two yesterday evening. This is great!


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1 hour ago, marsman said:

High of 82.8 at 4:10pm. 5.22" over the whole event. 6.20" for the month so far. Can't believe the flooding at Bond Park! 

Separately, this may be the last transmission from my OG Davis Vantage Vue. I'm tired of replacing the battery (also $$$) as I've fallen victim to the capacitor issue. Also developed comms issues with the station.

2008-2025, RIP. Looking forward to the new touch screen model scheduled to arrive next week.

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.


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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.


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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.


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


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6 hours ago, Met1985 said:

May not hit 70!

Nope! Got close though: 69.9 was the high.

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


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On 7/31/2025 at 2:21 PM, cbmclean said:

The solution is to just have a yard made of weeds like me: only 3.30" MTD and still looking good!

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…


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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!


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Last few days in Australia. Getting sent to Anchorage Alaska next. Lol. Well I guess that historic snowstorm in GA last month was just the warm-up for Alaska.

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?


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

4 minutes ago, SUNYGRAD said:

Have to use high resolution at moment----look for icon at top of radar page for GSP.

You can find it here on the COD wepgage:
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=GSP-N0B-1-12-100-usa-rad

1 minute ago, avianman said:

Just measured here at Riverbend Park.  We squeezed out a quarter inch.

Yeah, basically the same for me. On the elevated surfaces here, its between 0.3 and 0.4 inch.

Here's the radar loop of this morning's event. There were some bright green returns in their for a bit. We snowed for a couple of hours here in NE Hickory. Our final total appears to be between 0.3 and 0.4 inch.

3 minutes ago, avianman said:

I can see blue sky from the park right now.

Yeah, I can see it off in the distance, too. Just a few quiet flakes falling right now.

It’s about over here, but what a nice little AM treat!