Picked up 0.20” yesterday which brings us up to 0.73” for the month. Looking quite dry on models, may be a close call on hitting 1” for may. Low humidity this morning is noticeable, it had been quite humid past few days
Just picked my daughter up from daycare near creedmoor and millbrook and hit the storm on the way back. Worst storm I’ve been in a long time. Branches down and power went out while we were sitting at light. Looked like 50-60 mph wind
After a widespread frost tomorrow, looks like our next weather feature will be our first “death ridge” of the season and mid 80’s late this week and weekend
Good storm, nothing severe. Kinda trained over us. 1.19” in about 45 minutes. Might get another shower but that was probably the end of the heavy rain, cool outside now
Yea it’s the same in all the Carolina’s. NC has more issues with wedge fronts in the springtime and many times tornadoes set up along the wedge front which bolsters activity in the Triad area in some events though those are rarely strong tornadoes. Really I think the limiting factors are storm track is usually west of the mountains and a lot of energy is lost coming over terrain and we being further from the actual low centers then In the Deep South/Mississippi valley.
One of the wildest tornado videos in history was that Myrtle Beach tornado that developed along a sea breeze front and roared directly down the beach in front of the high rises for miles. I think that was EF-2. Coastal fronts 9 times out of 10 wreck havoc on storms as they approach the beach and almost always cause them to be undercut and become outflow dominant. However, violent tornadoes and outbreaks like yesterday are exceptionally rare and the setup for discrete super cells like we saw yesterday out in the clear rarely materializes in that area. Really was likely a historic day yesterday but thank the lord it hit some of the least populated areas in the southeast. A really really close call with Columbia as well.