SharonA Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Western Douglas County has been getting just brisk winds and loud roaring gusts all morning, and nary a break in the layer of low clouds zooming by. Last night's activity had weakened to a disorganized well-below-SVR by the time it started hitting here, thankfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Been following the Duke Energy outage map. Some of these storms, especially from I-85 West, are packing a punch, apparently. Outages have gone from 9,000 to almost 38,000 in the last 4 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Clearing out now. Breaks in the clouds. No winds to speak of - yet. .39" since 7:00AM. Another TOR warning off to our SE West of Wilmington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Western Douglas County has been getting just brisk winds and loud roaring gusts all morning, and nary a break in the layer of low clouds zooming by. Last night's activity had weakened to a disorganized well-below-SVR by the time it started hitting here, thankfully yep..once again the wedge destroyed any chance for severe here. As much as i love cad, it can be frustrating when it eats up severe thunderstorms. That said, did end up getting quite high winds at one point last night. There was a band of moderate to heavy rain moving through around 3am and as the end of the rain approached winds suddenly went from 5 to 6mph out of the east to east-southeast and sustained 25 to 30mph for about a half hour with quite a few gusts above 40 with a top gust of 45mph. It was so loud it woke me up..sure made a mess too..blew stuff all over the place. It was interesting in the fact though you could track it as it went across north ga...from atlanta to gainesville, athens, etc..as observations showed winds suddenly jumped into the 20 to 30mph range with higher gusts as this area of rain moved from west to east. Then they weakened considerably shortly there after as the rain pulled away, just like they did here. Reminded me quite a bit of the freakish high wind event here last year when south carolina had that huge rainfall event. Had sustained winds in the 35 to 45mph range with gusts as high as 63mph here. (no doubt it was higher at tree top level though..it was down right insane watching it.) What stood out was the fact that the edge of the precip shield was just east of here and each time the edge of the precip got a little closer there was a dramatic increase in winds and when it retreated back east they decreased dramatically as well...and this happened at least 4 or 5 times. The winds blew down numerous trees around here and caused quite a lot of power outages across a 2 or 3 county area..including here. It was one of the coolest wind events i've ever seen because it didn't involve any thunderstorms or frontal passage so it was completely unexpected. As for today, Had a top gust today of 38mph. Pretty rare to see gsp issue a high wind warning outside the mountains..mentioning gusts to 55mph..pretty damn impressive. i see anderson had a gust to 46mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Windy ! Finished the event with 2.08 total! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklecity Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Not sure of how much rain I got yet because all the PWS are offline. Power just came back on after being out since lunch. Lot's of limbs down. A few sections of the wooden fence are flopped over now and the wind also ripped the screws out of a trellis and blew it out. Edit: 1.83" total and the wind is really starting to pick back up again. Power went out again for a few seconds and now the cable is out. Flag pole got ripped out of the house as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 1.25" of rain yesterday puts me at 11.50" of rain for the month of Feb, looking dry the rest of the month and we need that badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isopycnic Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 0.86" 4.50" even for the month. Minor branches down here. Lots of trees down on homes all around our location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 .65" yesterday, 5.90" for the month...and that should be all for Feb. Lots of little debris branches and pine tips in the yard - mostly that broke off in the ice storm a month ago and were just hung up in the treetops. One dead pine back in the woods leaning precariously against another pine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lj0109 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Ummm, thankfully that this a major malfunction and not accurate: "HILTON_HEAD_(AWOS),SC (HXD) ASOS reports gust of 178.0 knots (204.9 mph) from NW @ 1450Z" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Finally drying out. Currently at 51/32. Looks like we will end up at 7.41" for the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Blue skies overhead. Currently at 68/36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isopycnic Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 0.00" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Looks like CAE will finish the month with temps approx +.2 and rainfall approx +1.08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isopycnic Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 Looks like CAE will finish the month with temps approx +.2 and rainfall approx +1.08 i think I finished at 4.50" even. :0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Currently 65! This winter was so great, I'm glad we got an extra day to enjoy all the snow and cold Feb. brought us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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