Sorry, Saddle Pals...just not in my normal 'groove' as far as blogging goes. The weather has not been helpful for 'stuff' I've needed to do, given the myriad afternoon storminess for several days in a row, now...and Tuesday was no exception. We need the rain...we don't need the 65mph wind gusts....or the 1.5" hail...or the tornado warnings that some areas have had...the radar grab below tells the story for the southern Piedmont short of 530p on Tuesday, which was but the start of a very stormy night:
Only a handful of minutes past that image I lost all cable, phone, internet, thus ending the day right on my schedule! Talk about bringing home the bacon...soggy, storm-tossed bacon, no less...click to enlarge the "storm total" radar image below. Understand that radar estimates are on the 'hot' side, having a tendency to over-estimate rainfall...but it's been a long time since I've seen imagery like this. To say the rains were intense would be an understatement:
I haven't even begun to add up all the severe storm reports from North Carolina alone, yesterday. There were humdingers all over the state, but especially over in the Raleigh market area and eastern NC. And yet, if you are a statistician and you go to the 'official' National Weather Service gauge for the Triad (at Piedmont Triad Airport), you'll see they picked up a mere 0.04" of rain through midnight. As they say in real estate, it's location, location, location.
Alas, it's summer in the Southeast, and we've had an unstable air mass overhead for almost a week, now. A slow-moving cold front should sink far enough south late Friday to take afternoon storms out of the forecast for this weekend - however, the rate things are going atmospherically, it won't take much for scattered storms to return to the afternoon forecasts this weekend.
FYI on Hurricane Bertha...still slated to slow and shift more north in its travel, grazing Bermuda to the east. There have been some wacky hurricane paths throughout our monitoring history...maybe I'll do a blog on some of those soon...like maybe tomorrow. Unless inspiration smacks me upside the head from another direction later today...!
Only a handful of minutes past that image I lost all cable, phone, internet, thus ending the day right on my schedule! Talk about bringing home the bacon...soggy, storm-tossed bacon, no less...click to enlarge the "storm total" radar image below. Understand that radar estimates are on the 'hot' side, having a tendency to over-estimate rainfall...but it's been a long time since I've seen imagery like this. To say the rains were intense would be an understatement:
I haven't even begun to add up all the severe storm reports from North Carolina alone, yesterday. There were humdingers all over the state, but especially over in the Raleigh market area and eastern NC. And yet, if you are a statistician and you go to the 'official' National Weather Service gauge for the Triad (at Piedmont Triad Airport), you'll see they picked up a mere 0.04" of rain through midnight. As they say in real estate, it's location, location, location. Alas, it's summer in the Southeast, and we've had an unstable air mass overhead for almost a week, now. A slow-moving cold front should sink far enough south late Friday to take afternoon storms out of the forecast for this weekend - however, the rate things are going atmospherically, it won't take much for scattered storms to return to the afternoon forecasts this weekend.
FYI on Hurricane Bertha...still slated to slow and shift more north in its travel, grazing Bermuda to the east. There have been some wacky hurricane paths throughout our monitoring history...maybe I'll do a blog on some of those soon...like maybe tomorrow. Unless inspiration smacks me upside the head from another direction later today...!
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