calculus1

Just got home. Closed the college early.

3.02 inches since midnight. 4.02 inches storm total counting yesterday’s rainfall.

More Cocorahs totals coming in…


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9.75 yesterday through this morning. 13.64 since Monday. 

Dang that's impressive and all before Helene gets here.

Corcoran observations coming in at 7 AM…


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Got another inch since midnight. Light rain now. Anybody got a rain gauge near Old Fort? Really curious on their totals. It trained on them all night.


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24 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I saw your video that was wicked. Same cell came over mby.

Can you post the link?

I have family in Old Fort that live across the street from the Catawba River. I also have family in Black Mountain, but not near any streams or rivers. Really worried about this one for both of them. I think they both see upwards of a foot of rainfall out of this. The point-and-click NWS forecasts are pretty insane for both locations. I’ve never seen the language for rain totals that it is using for Black Mountain tomorrow night: “New precipitation amounts in excess of 4 inches possible.” The other time frames are also huge. Old Fort isn’t much different.

I keep sending my family updates, as I have them, since I am much more into following weather events than any of them. I appreciate all the reports and posting that ya’ll provide on here.

That line of precursor rain has not advanced far east at all. We got an inch of rain overnight, but it hasn’t really rained at all today. Maybe it will pick up overnight, but I’m not too anxious for those high totals anyway.

Keep everything here, IMO.


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3.50 inches exactly was my final tally. All of that fell within the calendar day of 8/8.


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2.6 inches of rainfall IMBY as of about 30 minutes ago, according to my wife. Rainfall began around 6:30 AM.


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I had 8.45 inches going back to 7/10 within July. I can’t go back any further on my Vue console, and I forgot to check the monthly total before flipping to August.

I’m at 41.26 inches for the calendar year.


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That was the worst storm we’ve had in our new home. Lightning hit the house or very close to it around 8. Luckily I haven’t seen anything alarming so far but my landscape lighting is temporarily fried until I can get a new low voltage transformer installed.  .83 inches of rain over about a 20 min period.

Much more rain IMBY since Saturday. I am in New Orleans for work, so I don’t have totals, but radar back home has been robust.


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5 hours ago, BooneWX said:

Blessings. Lost a lot of fescue to get here but maybe this will ease the pain a bit. 
 

what are you guys doing these days grass wise? My yard has become a hobby over the years but these past two summers have worn me out with fescue. I have a baby at home and time just really doesn’t allow me to water it correctly and apply the fungicide needed. I can’t do Bermuda thanks to a shady backyard but thinking about Texas Bluegrass (southern hybrid to Kentucky bluegrass).

I got almost an inch of rain this evening! Amazing.

I am still rolling with fescue, as it looks beautiful all year round other than July/August, and I do not have irrigation. I pay Turf Pro to do the fertilization, grub control, liming, and fungicide. I pay to have the lawn aerated and over-seeded each fall. My boys and I do all the mowing, though. Because of the recent lack of rain, tomorrow will be the first time that we mow in almost one month. I've been afraid to mow because of the stress it would cause on the grass with very little rain recently. (It also hasn't grown much at all.) The fescue has survived fairly well in all the shaded areas, but is very crispy in the areas that get full sun.

I eked out 0.29 inch of blessed rainfall early this evening. It was amazing! I had almost forgotten what rain was like...

Ya’ll in the east really benefited today. We continue to be drought central here in Hickory. Ugh…

On 7/10/2024 at 11:35 AM, BooneWX said:

Also curious - where does this summer rank for you guys? We’re mid way through July and if next weeks temperatures verify, I’m getting close to crowning this as the worst and hottest summer I’ve seen. 

Yes, this summer has been miserably hot and humid. I was fortunate to escape to Alaska for two weeks, but otherwise it has been “Yuck!”

1 hour ago, wncsnow said:

The rain today has been comically missing my location again. 5 miles to the south and west are getting drenched. Not a drop here yet.  

Same for me. It’s been raining all around me, but just a random sprinkle or two hear IMBY.

Been in Alaska for the past two weeks, camping and hiking. Mornings were in upper 40s and afternoons never got warmer than mid 70s. Most afternoons were in the 60s, particularly where we were hiking at elevation.

Made it home last night and checked my PWS. Only 0.11 inch of rainfall IMBY over that period. Ugh! Yesterday’s high was 100.4 IMBY with a heat index of 120! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that high on my Vantage Vue.

I may challenge it today, though. Current temp is 92.5 at 1 PM. Heat index is reading 105.


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My goodness. Almost 2 inches of rain since 5 pm. [mention=4420]calculus1[/mention]any hail over your way? 

Great light show last night from the back deck here in Hickory, NC! Just absolutely amazing! We even saw them dancing overhead at times; that’s what the second shot above was trying to capture. Clouds are a bit persistent tonight, unfortunately.


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Surprisingly, not a drop yesterday. First we bust badly by an incredible over-performance on Saturday, then we bust badly by an incredible under-performance on Sunday. The weatherman’s job is difficult…


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