2026 Spring/Summer Mountain Thread

[GaWx]

1 hour ago, Maggie Valley Steve said:

Hey Larry. I am aware of the Main Tropical thread, but personally I don't post or get involved in those board wide threads anymore. My focus is purely local and regional and I was wondering if there's interest with any other like minded folks in the SE Region. 

 Steve, I understand your focus. There’s nothing stopping you from creating it. But,

 1. The local/regional specifics have been taken care of by SE individual storm threads and even then participation wasn’t better than the main indiv. storm thread. Even SE folks often posted more in the main trop. indiv. storm threads. For example, the Milton SE thread here (link below) had barely any posts other than Kayman’s many tornado posts due to lack of enough interest despite its major effects on FL while the main Milton thread had over 2K posts:

2. Even without a specific storm, you, me, and others can already post about the tropics’ potential effects on the SE within the SE Mid-long range discussion threads as I’ve done before. At this time of year with not as much interest in those threads vs winter, the mid-long range threads can use more posts.

3. I don’t think it’s good to create more threads than necessary because it makes the already existing threads quieter. This BB used to thrive on general threads that all would feel welcome to post in. Now it’s become much more regional. But there still is one general thread per year (titled with ENSO) and one general ATL tropical thread that both welcome all to post in.

[ncjoaquin]

Almost made it to 3 inches for the 3 days. Just need a tenth more. Amazing how much rain there has been after being so dry for so long. 

 

[Maggie Valley Steve]

I picked up another .90 today making my total so of 1.65 inches. Very grateful for the rain!

[Rainforrest]

4.23” last 3 days. 

[buckeyefan1]

5 hours ago, Maggie Valley Steve said:

Hey Larry. I am aware of the Main Tropical thread, but personally I don't post or get involved in those board wide threads anymore. My focus is purely local and regional and I was wondering if there's interest with any other like minded folks in the SE Region. 

I don't think anyone would have a problem with our own here. Storm PTSD is real for a lot of good people after Helene and it would be nice not to have all the weenie posts to scroll past. I've got my fingers crossed for a slow season, but as we know all too well, it only takes one 

 

[Maggie Valley Steve]

2 hours ago, buckeyefan1 said:

I don't think anyone would have a problem with our own here. Storm PTSD is real for a lot of good people after Helene and it would be nice not to have all the weenie posts to scroll past. I've got my fingers crossed for a slow season, but as we know all too well, it only takes one 

 

Thank you Shell. What prompted my post was seeing our neighbors just last week talking of their own experience with PTSD. Ike and Harvey exposed my own battles. But knowledge and preparation eases the stress.

[Met1985]

This is a big surprise.

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[Met1985]

This is spectacular.

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[Rainforrest]

5.25” this week. Definitely putting a dent in the drought. 

[Met1985]

Looks like heavy rain and storms coming in this evening. 

[Met1985]

41 minutes ago, Rainforrest said:

5.25” this week. Definitely putting a dent in the drought. 

Yes sir! And a lot more to come.

[Met1985]

This looks amazing from the Euro. Keep that moisture transport coming.

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[Maggie Valley Steve]

The models are suggesting a rather sharp trough axis will develop in Texas and extend down to the Yucatan later this week into next weekend. It's not unusual this time of year to see a broad area of low pressure to fester near the Western Caribbean and Western to Central Gulf in such a setup. I wouldn't be surprised to see copious deep tropical moisture setup over all the SE including the Mountains. We'll need to monitor early this week for any potential tropical mischief attempting to organize W of Florida later this week.

[Met1985]

5 minutes ago, Maggie Valley Steve said:

The models are suggesting a rather sharp trough axis will develop in Texas and extend down to the Yucatan later this week into next weekend. It's not unusual this time of year to see a broad area of low pressure to fester near the Western Caribbean and Western to Central Gulf in such a setup. I wouldn't be surprised to see copious deep tropical moisture setup over all the SE including the Mountains. We'll need to monitor early this week for any potential tropical mischief attempting to organize W of Florida later this week.

If that happens then we COULD go from drought to excessive rainfall in just a few weeks.