July ‘26 obs

[Avdave]

Just now, eyewall said:

Looking toward North Hills:

Awesome shot Jeremy. Wow!!!

 

With this last bit of rain in the last 30 minutes or so, we are almost to half an inch here.  I'll gladly take it, though we are on the lower end of rainfall totals in the area. 

Let it keep rainin'

[Coach McGuirk]

Finally some rain.  Yay. 

[Droessl]

9 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Don’t think I need to water in morning. 2.89” here. Radar estimates show over 6” just east of my location. Maybe more to come overnight? 3.03” MTD

What site do you use for radar estimates?

[NorthHillsWx]

16 minutes ago, Droessl said:

What site do you use for radar estimates?

Radar Scope, it’s an app. If you don’t have it, get it, it’s the best radar app out there. 

[eyewall]

10 hours ago, Avdave said:

Awesome shot Jeremy. Wow!!!

 

With this last bit of rain in the last 30 minutes or so, we are almost to half an inch here.  I'll gladly take it, though we are on the lower end of rainfall totals in the area. 

Let it keep rainin'

Thank you! 

[NorthHillsWx]

Watered the front yard where it has most slope but it is very squishy in the lower flat spots from yesterdays event so skipped watering most of the yard. Looking at the rainfall map combined with the rain the day before it looks like part of the falls lake watershed has seen 4”+ over last two days. The lake has remained mostly steady longer term with minimal drops over the past 2 weeks after being in a free fall 

[eyewall]

Here is the latest Falls Lake level and it made up about half of what it lost during the peak of the most recent heatwave. 

[olafminesaw]

Feels like El nino has finally forced the pattern change, storms developing nicely again today. Going to have to mow the lawn for the third time this summer

[NorthHillsWx]

30 minutes ago, olafminesaw said:

Feels like El nino has finally forced the pattern change, storms developing nicely again today. Going to have to mow the lawn for the third time this summer

Just did mine and it’s thundering again now 

[eyewall]

Pouring here on the east side of downtown. Loving this!

[Frankpc]

22 hours 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.

 

Not quite the bullseye this storm, we received an additional 1.5" mostly overnight last night. 

Total July to date : 3.6"

Not too shabby but Falls River (err, Falls Lake) has a long way to go.

 

[Frankpc]

21 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

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

Yep, we've been lucky this June/July.  Odd, cause in the past this is one of the areas where the storms would seem to skirt around us.