July ‘26 obs

[GaWx]

I’m here at Tybee Island with some friends in a severe thunderstorm that we just experienced! It was something else! We were inside and I watched it closely!

 Edit: However, nothing measurable fell at my home well to the W.

[NorthHillsWx]

Finished with 0.14” 

[Orange county]

15 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Finished with 0.14” 

No where near that in Garner   A few drops

[NorthHillsWx]

In good news the heaviest rain (1.5-2.5”) set up directly over falls lake AGAIN and the lake registered its biggest one day jump since the free fall started 

[cbmclean]

2 hours ago, eyewall said:

Yep the run ahead outflow killed us.

So technical question: I know that outflow from one cell can kill another.  But how does any cell manage to last any length of time and sometimes move 100+ miles without always chocking on its own outflow since that spreads out in every direction?

[Avdave]

Had a good thumping with the storms here today. Picked up 1.49" rain so far today. See if we can anything else this evening. 

[eyewall]

17 minutes ago, cbmclean said:

So technical question: I know that outflow from one cell can kill another.  But how does any cell manage to last any length of time and sometimes move 100+ miles without always chocking on its own outflow since that spreads out in every direction?

The short answer is shear. In simple terms, CAPE is a measure of the fuel in the atmosphere for storms and wind shear is what allows storms to organize and not choke themselves off so quickly (should be at least 25 knots but preferably more). Today there was not much shear present so it makes more of a pulse storm scenario where they pop up and die quickly.

[Orange county]

13 hours ago, Avdave said:

Had a good thumping with the storms here today. Picked up 1.49" rain so far today. See if we can anything else this evening. 

In Garner it was not measurable-sad 

[eyewall]

This graph shows the bump from yesterday's rain at Falls Lake before resuming the gradual drop:

[olafminesaw]

52 minutes ago, eyewall said:

This graph shows the bump from yesterday's rain at Falls Lake before resuming the gradual drop:

Today is again looking promising for downpours across the area 

[NorthHillsWx]

97 degrees with a heat index of 111… Today feels the most miserable of any days during this heatwave 

[yotaman]

Super humid this morning. My glasses fogged up as soon as I went outside. It was 85/80 at 8:30 am. High was 93 before the storms rolled in.Heavy thunderstorm right now. 

[marsman]

Was out for 3 hours this morning in this. Thankfully was able to wrap it up at 1pm. Currently 98 / 111. 

[Snowacane]

102 again today. I'm so f@#king done with this

[Frankpc]

We're in the Falls watershed near Laurel Creek (a couple of miles SW of the NC50/NC98 intersection) so we drain into Falls Lake.

We had  4.6" for the month of June. 

July was dry until yesterday, when we were pretty close to the bullseye. Most radar returns looked  close to 1.9" for this area, my rain gauge was actually at 2.1"

It's strange to see things greening up  in the landscape around here when  Falls Lake  looks like  it did back when they were building the dam.

 

[NorthHillsWx]

1 hour ago, Frankpc said:

We're in the Falls watershed near Laurel Creek (a couple of miles SW of the NC50/NC98 intersection) so we drain into Falls Lake.

We had  4.6" for the month of June. 

July was dry until yesterday, when we were pretty close to the bullseye. Most radar returns looked  close to 1.9" for this area, my rain gauge was actually at 2.1"

It's strange to see things greening up  in the landscape around here when  Falls Lake  looks like  it did back when they were building the dam.

 

Yall have had the most rain in the central part of NC and even though it’s been somewhat isolated it’s thankfully falling into the watershed. The lake would be probably close to a foot lower if not for the lucky bullseyes that have kept it in check overall the last 3 weeks