When it rains, it pours, alright, thanks to:
1) Fay's remnants and coinciding frontal boundary, and
2) understaffing issues
Matt Morano is out for the week, so I will take his Charlotte reins (and rains) for the rest of this week. The remnants of Fay are bringing critically important amounts of rainfall to northern GA and the SW NC mountains and foothils...good news for the drainage basins and lakes, problematic news for travelers and those situated in flood prone areas. Flash flood watches are posted for those regions, and for good reason. As I write some places therein have already received 5" to a few isolated 8" amounts.
(click on pics to enlarge)
Above is the QPF map (quantitative) for rain totals the next 5 days this week, which was produced 8am Monday. Below you will find the subsequent 5-day model run 12 hours later at 8pm Monday:
Either way, that's inches of water for most of the state, with the heavier amounts in the Piedmont and points west into the mountains. The cold front heading south and stalling will keep us mostly rain...but as it presses back north Wednesday's with the former Fay's low center pushing north through TN, we will see more thunderstorms and maybe an isolated weak tornado or two. Speaking of which, scroll down after this entry and look at the 3-D radar grabs of a tornadic cell I made Monday afternoon from a storm in central GA. They're in that unstable zone and continue to be for today.
Lest we not forget, checking the tropical page there is now the quickly strengthening Tropical Storm Gustav in the Caribbean, taking almost the identical route to Fay's early path...and it should be a hurricane very soon, which is not good news for Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, etc. A stronger storm moving slowly with torrential rains...there is a great deal of mountainous terrain there, which will create devastating issues with floods, mudslides, landslides, and the like.
For now, it may take 5 more days before Gustav crosses Cuba and enters the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This puppy bears watching.
Carpe diem, everybody!
1) Fay's remnants and coinciding frontal boundary, and
2) understaffing issues
Matt Morano is out for the week, so I will take his Charlotte reins (and rains) for the rest of this week. The remnants of Fay are bringing critically important amounts of rainfall to northern GA and the SW NC mountains and foothils...good news for the drainage basins and lakes, problematic news for travelers and those situated in flood prone areas. Flash flood watches are posted for those regions, and for good reason. As I write some places therein have already received 5" to a few isolated 8" amounts.
(click on pics to enlarge)
Above is the QPF map (quantitative) for rain totals the next 5 days this week, which was produced 8am Monday. Below you will find the subsequent 5-day model run 12 hours later at 8pm Monday:
Either way, that's inches of water for most of the state, with the heavier amounts in the Piedmont and points west into the mountains. The cold front heading south and stalling will keep us mostly rain...but as it presses back north Wednesday's with the former Fay's low center pushing north through TN, we will see more thunderstorms and maybe an isolated weak tornado or two. Speaking of which, scroll down after this entry and look at the 3-D radar grabs of a tornadic cell I made Monday afternoon from a storm in central GA. They're in that unstable zone and continue to be for today.
Lest we not forget, checking the tropical page there is now the quickly strengthening Tropical Storm Gustav in the Caribbean, taking almost the identical route to Fay's early path...and it should be a hurricane very soon, which is not good news for Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, etc. A stronger storm moving slowly with torrential rains...there is a great deal of mountainous terrain there, which will create devastating issues with floods, mudslides, landslides, and the like.
For now, it may take 5 more days before Gustav crosses Cuba and enters the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This puppy bears watching.Carpe diem, everybody!
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