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Naughty November

Really surprised no lake effect yet. Usually by now we've seen cold air crossing the lakes and creating it.
 
6.9” highest total in Wilkes I see with neighboring Alexander over 9” fell. In between those counties are the brushy mtns...where rain is squeezed out...but little to no observation sites.
 
Well I just got home and my rain gauge is at 7.25 inches. That is at total since overnight on Monday. It was 1.9 when I left for work this morning before the fire hose got here, so I had 5.35 inches in just over 3 hours. Definitely the heaviest rainfall I’ve seen since Florence.
 
Chazwin said:
Well I just got home and my rain gauge is at 7.25 inches. That is at total since overnight on Monday. It was 1.9 when I left for work this morning before the fire hose got here, so I had 5.35 inches in just over 3 hours. Definitely the heaviest rainfall I’ve seen since Florence.
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Just for the record because I like to keep track of things like this, how much of this incredible flooding event can be attributed to TS Eta? Another way to ask: if Eta had not been there and we just had the cold front coming into the same warm and high dewpoint airmass, would it have been nearly as wet?
 
GaWx said:
Just for the record because I like to keep track of things like this, how much of this incredible flooding event can be attributed to TS Eta? Another way to ask: if Eta had not been there and we just had the cold front coming into the same warm and high dewpoint airmass, would it have been nearly as wet?
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I can’t imagine the rain totals would have been anywhere close if Eta hadn’t been there. While none of the rainfall was directly from Eta’s circulation, it obviously helped push a very tropical airmass in place with PWAT’s at absolutely unheard levels for November.
 
WeatherNC said:
Going to end up with just under 7” event total, really over a 24hr period. 6.86” and about finished. Pretty wet out there.
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I came up the road from the speedway and by your neck of the woods. Couple places still had water on the roads especially near the curve by the overpass.
 
That 6-7 inches of rain today could have been 60-70 inches of white powder using 10-1 ratios. All we needed was about 30-40 degrees shaved off the mercury.
 
Webberweather53 said:
This pattern is teetering on the edge between a pure dumpster fire and a blockbuster. The west-based -NAO and Alaska/NW territory ridges are bridging over the top, but the trough off the west coast is trying to pump the heights over the east-central US. Warmth is more likely going to win out but we could hit it big pattern-wise if a couple dominoes magically fall in our corner.

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I’ll take the under on dumpster fire
 
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