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Seems like convection never really got going today.

Very frustrating day for me rain wise.  A very nice cell blew up in Wilson.  Poured at work for a while.  Looking on the radar you could see a little refuge of light rain/drizzle amongst all that red and it was right over my house!!.  Only picked picked up 0.06".  Grumble grumble.

Well darn it my rain gauge has malfunctioned.  Wilson city reporting 1.11".  That feels about right.

Man, that was disappointing.  Line of storms just missed to my north.  Then after it passed to my west, the line extended south.

To add insult to injury, it stabilized the atmosphere.  The previous 60% chance of rain is now 20%.

0.64" yesterday,

0.34" today.

1.21" overall since Thursday

Would have liked to get under one of those downpours that were attracted to Greensboro or Raleigh, but overall not too bad.

20 hours ago, NC_hailstorm said:

1st day of the month and here we go again with temps.

GSP  0.0

HKY  +0.5

AVL  -1.0

RDU  -1.0

GSO  -0.5

CAE  -0.5

AND

CLT  +2.5

 

Really makes you wonder about site location of the station.

1 hour ago, Solak said:

Officially a "T" --- there was evidence of few raindrops on the trash can lid this morning.

Today's former 70% chance is down to 30%.

Yeah noticed that as well.  When that happens I wish the AFD would discuss in more detail what has changed in their thinking.

23 hours ago, WxBlue said:

After witnessing over 160 inches of snow last two winters, adjusting back to North Carolina winters will be very difficult. Not thrilled about living in area with 6"/year snowfall average rather than 60"/year. I'll miss having snow depth of over 6" for three months straight.

Where were you located?

A welcome 0.24" here today.  Hoping for more over the next few days.

Ahhhhhhhhhh.  2.25" of much needed rain today.  4.04" for the month.

One thing has me perturbed.  A few days ago it looked as if the front was going to stall and we would get several days of elevated rain chances.  Now it's going to barrel through in one day.  If I miss out on Tuesday, it's dry for another week.  I'll be anxious all day.

1 hour ago, Queencitywx said:

97 in Burlington. 95 in Greensboro. 94 in Winston. 95 in Raleigh. Where was the bust? 

I wouldn't call it a bust but overall I would say that at least it didn't over-perform.

I would re

32 minutes ago, WinstonSalemArlington said:

BWI 100

IAD 98

DCA 97

I really would to understand how ridges work better.  How did it occur that that Boston (Logan) got hotter than RDU today (96 vs 95)?

Don't look over in the MA forum.  They have a thread already cancelling this upcoming winter.

1 hour ago, kvegas-wx said:

And once again the hammer is getting dropped on Forsyth County.  I've been trying to mow my yard for 4 days now.  Non-moving thunderstorm blowing up overhead as we speak.  Deluge inbound.

Must be nice.  Currently sitting on 0.09" for the week.

2 minutes ago, LithiaWx said:

Lol at the “heat wave” up north.  They are dealing with two days of heat. We get it day after day in July and August.  

 

I guess it’s like how how they laugh at us getting riled up about 3” of snow. 

In their defense, many homes up there lack air conditioning.  Upstairs bedrooms are unpleasant.

3 minutes ago, goldsborosnow said:

I finally got a piece of one this evening. My weather station gusted to 30mph and recorded .30" of rain, but there is a tree that may have obscured some of the rain since it was lined up with the wind direction. Plenty of lightning too.

Yeah, it lightning and thundered for like two straight hours, but we only got .02 out of it.  Definitely in a slump right now.

Just can't win.  Another near miss tonight.

7 minutes ago, goldsborosnow said:

Same luck here. It missed me by a mile. There were some close cloud  to ground strikes, but that's about it for me.

And as if on queue, the cell is collapsing.  Sigh.

1 minute ago, goldsborosnow said:

It looks like you have one incoming to Wilson. It should stay just north of me here in Pikeville. Plenty of lightning to my north with it.

Yeah it is a laser light show to the southwest.  Very pretty.  Radar looking good now, but that is usually when the cell starts to weaken or make a zigzag.

3 hours ago, downeastnc said:

Once again it died right on my doorstep

Man, I hate it when that happens.

Another day, another whiff for northern Wilson county.  Looks like Greenville about to get hit.

8 minutes ago, yotaman said:

I watched that on radar and it looked like parts of Greenville got slammed with torrential rain.

I can confirm the ground truth of that.

Hey Downeast, I was in your neck of the woods to day getting my Subaru serviced at Capital Subaru.  Got caught in some torrential rain.  Hoping you got something.

Nothing back here in Wilson.

0.63" from the storm today.  Meh.  Better than nothing though.  1.44" for the week, hoping for some more tomorrow.