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  1. John1122
    Most showers have avoided me for a change the last day and a half. Only .15 so far from them. 9.79 for the month. We will see if another manages to move over before midnight. Still an extremely rainy summer with no signs of a flash drought heatwave like last fall. I'm on track for well over 80 inches of rain this year, which would be a calendar year record. I am already over 80 in the last 365 days. Unless we pick up more rain this evening, this will be my last post in the spring/summer 2020 obs thread. About to start a fall/winter obs thread.
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    Went to a movie in Knox and returned to .21 in my rain gauge. Apparently some rain did hit my area at some point during the evening though it looked as if it wasn't going to on radar before I went into the movie. 9.64 for August. Judging by the current forecast for tomorrow and Monday, I should cross 10 inches again this month.
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    .92 from Laura. So not quite as much as expected for a change. Line of storms broke apart and looks to miss me to the east and west this evening. 9.43 for August with two days to go.
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    Looks like west and central valley areas have gotten some rowdy weather from this thing so far. Having a very gusty but light shower right now near Lafollette. Was hoping it would arrive after high school football but looks like it will arrive here in earnest around kick off.
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    Been seeing reds and yellows here. Saw some yellow leaves drifting off my walnut tree today.
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    No idea how my post ended up formatted so oddly. Is the right front quadrant still a key location when a storm turns like this?
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    It appears to be very healthy still in Arkansas. Still has 65 mph sustained winds. I am surprised NW Tennessee isn't forecast to get more than 2-4 inches of rain with it taking 12 hours to cross from NE Arkansas to just east of Clarksville. That little area of SW Kentucky is in the red flash flooding bullseye though. After that it gets caught in the westerlies and will start booking it out of our region. Looks like Memphis is about to get it's first few showers and some pretty strong storms in a feeder band off the Gulf are headed north through Alabama.
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    Only had .08 Monday and it's been sunny today with the rain set up along 40 and south. The hurricane path will probably determine if I go over 10 inches again this month.
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    Found the scholarly article about hurricane paths last night. Even at 2 days out tracks were almost always too far west with systems in the Gulf of Mexico. The article did note that the more powerful the land falling storm that more likely it was to be within 75 miles of the forecast center track from day 2 at landfall. Hurricane Michael, which was a cat 5 ended up only being about 65 miles East of the day 2 center track. Cat 2 and lower were normally over 100 miles East at land fall vs the day 2 track. Some with tracks similar to Laura ended up moving into the coast around Mobile to Panama City. So even with all the guidance taking Laura in at the Texas/Louisiana border and heading into Arkansas, I won't be surprised if it never makes it that far West and it ends up heading more towards West Tennessee.
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    I always love seeing the first Rocky Mountain snow storms showing up. I'll never forget that the same time Hurricane Andrew was hitting that Montana and Wyoming were getting a snow storm. Winter starts really early in the Northern Rockies. I do wonder how much valley impacts the hurricanes this week will bring. The track of Laura seems to be trending west but I remember seeing somewhere that models have a western bias when dealing with tropical systems in the Gulf. I think it was something like 100-150 miles from D 5. Either way it looks like high school football may have to deal with the remnants from the right/rainy side of the track as it gets absorbed into the trough.
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    .28 so far today. Some slow moving soakers just to my west. Not sure if they will get here or not this evening. 8.42 for August.
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    7.74 through yesterday. Went to Newport for the game vs Cocke County, there was a pointless lightning delay for a storm way off in the west. The storm on radar was probably 25 miles away. It was never close enough for even faint thunder and it barely rained a few times there. Returned to .38 in the rain gauge here. Had a heavy shower about 45 minutes ago that dropped another .42 so far today.
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    That's just crazy to me, my grass won't dry out, it takes a full day of sun (which has been rare) to get the standing water from my yard. I guess this is why Tri is basically the driest reporting station in the state on average. It's raining here now and I've had 1.3 inches in the last couple of days. Should go over 8 inches for August today.
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    .98 from a soaking thunderstorm that lasted about an hour between 9 and 10. 7.23 for August.
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    I'm not sure how many hours that gif covers, but I got rain moving SW to NE, NW to SE and NNE to SSW in it. The steering currents are all over the place but they all pass over me. Looks like the heaviest rain of the weekend was in those eastern areas though. I saw some areas there also got 3-4 inches per MRX.
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    1.1 inches of rain today. 6.25 at the halfway point of the month.
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    5.15 inches for the month so far after some heavy rains today and just before midnight. Maybe another 10 inch month on the way.
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    1.1 inches of rain so far today. I'm going to have to weed eat or bush hog my entire yard because the grass just stays too wet to mow.
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    Managed 48 hours with no rain, but just had a heavy shower working through. Bound to hit an extended dry spell eventually. Last year it hit in September into early October.
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    Had .33 between 12 and 1:30am, but this evening it was mostly sunny. First time in 3 weeks. It didn't even rain during the daylight hours for a change.
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    Wasn't supposed to rain tonight, so of course it's pouring.
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    Had .55 so far today. Heard some thunder in the south and it appears the evening round of storms has developed south of me for a change.
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    More downpours this morning. Lots of thunder with these.
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    Ended up with .50 for the day. 1.85 through the first 5 days of August.
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    I feel more like Forrest Gump when he said "and one day it started raining.."
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