Worst summer ever confirmed
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Pattern August is the worst month of the year and it's not even close thread
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We picked up 7+inches per hour on the KNCERWIN28 station couple nights ago
69dbz and no severe thunderstorm warnings pretty wild. Didn’t expect to see this intensity today. Friend reported penny sized hail in this cell
BufordWX
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Incoming here!
What happened to Arid August???
Stone Cold Heel
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Another day and another busted forecast for storms here.
Sky86
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I was going back up to Cleveland from Gainesville, and the sky was the blackest I can remember seeing.
I’m finally connecting on one of these convective crawlers. They’ve been avoiding me all summer. Dumping 
JHS
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Despite the area wide rain here in the Pee Dee of SC the swamps are still mostly dry. Some pools but no flowing water in any swamp I've seen. Rivers have come up a bit with heavier rain upstream but not a lot.
Iceagewhereartthou
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Yeah, especially after your June 2012 and July 1993 predictions were right on the money! Don't worry, I'm sure Sept/Oct 2019 are incoming next.
Dude; you are just fine. Take a deep breath. You've had plenty of rain; your trees aren't dead, you're not about to die of thirst, and it hasn't been triple digits all summer.
I couldn’t tell you the last time it rained this hard after dark here but
I am not so sure on the amount of >=100F days in C/So. GA per year on average, but it's good to see that we didn't get hit with that. We did have an okay summer season for rain though, especially in June.
Drizzle Snizzle
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All that really matters is Heat Index, so the actual temps are irrelevant to me. If it's 93 and feels like 105, then it's 105. It's been 100+ plenty of days this summer in Georgia.
True, but I've had my fair share of supposedly 110F heat indexes while doing outdoor activities. I am a little used to extreme temps (and humidity) though, so forgive me on that department— H.I.'s are important
RDU is truly exceptional.
The record for 100 degree days in one year at RDU is twelve in 1999. We still have to get through August and September so the record for 100 degree days in a year could still be broken this year.
Definitely possible, although not seeing it in the near term, and climo starts to turn against the possibility as we get deeper into August, so I’d say the odds strongly lean against it. However, as 2019 showed, it can apparently hit triple digits here as late as early October.
I noticed that driving back last weekend from the the SC coastline. Took the country route through Horry, Brunswick, Columbus counties and have never seen the swamps so low. Also, lot of brown corn fields that looked like no matter what happens from now on, some crops are a total loss for the season. Soybeans/tobacco looked a little better though, but corn....ugh.
(BTW, I think they were soybeans. Coulda been peanuts--I couldn't tell at a quick glance.)
HEADS UP! MARGINAL RISK ISSUED!
Columbia, SC is getting smoked today
GeorgiaGirl
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I really don't know why there's only a flash flood warning on this storm that's been affecting my workplace. Lots of lightning and there seems to be wind. May have been a lightning strike in the parking lot.
I also chose today to crack my car window, knew things looked threatening a little over a half hour (ago at that point), and yet chose to do nothing.
I also chose today to crack my car window, knew things looked threatening a little over a half hour (ago at that point), and yet chose to do nothing.
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Stone Cold Heel
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The heat is back this weekend.
INCOMING!
Good un’
Thunderstorms doing their thing...rough evening for flying, delays galore everywhere.
What site is tgat from?
I went to RDU last night to pick up my wife after her delayed flight from Nashville. Thanks to her plane being delayed an hour and half I ended up getting home at 1:00 AM. Needless to say, I wasn't at peak efficiency at work today. I just can't go without sleep like I used to when I was young and dumb.
Rain like you wouldn’t believe IMBY tonight. Had to drive slow to keep from hydroplaning quite a bit. Limited visibility as well!
And yes, WNG 706 alerts for Wake and Durham. But not Chatham or Orange, unlike WXL 58.
The OFB over Avery Pond was very ominous too!
CAPE levels are FLYING THROUGH THE ROOF! 1000+ DCAPE, 4000+ SBCAPE. Possible upgrade to marginal?
Things have changed so much since I was young. Today we have our cell phones, computers, television and weather radio features on a variety of different devices. I have a Pro 53 eight channel crystal scanner from Radio Shack that was a Christmas present to me back in 1978. I remember listening to WXL-58 on it and thinking this was the best thing as far as weather information I had ever heard. There were no computer generated voices giving information then. The NWS used students from the Shaw University communications program to record the broadcasts that were used. My Pro 53 still works even though it is 48 years old and even though I have several more sophisticated weather radios and my cell phone now, I will still turn on that scanner on occasion and remember how things were and marvel at how things have changed.
Yet to hit 90F in August at GSP. Likely to change next week