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Thanks, Sir. We hiked down the Glen Falls trail last week with our daughter and future son-in-law. Just, gorgeous. And, I'm always pulling for the Miller A's !

About 6 miles. Just up the hill from the Scaly Mountain Outdoor Center tubing hill.

Good Friday afternoon, mountain-folk. I can, today, finally feel like I have some legitimacy posting in this sub-forum. My wife and I, although still firmly homesteaded in the barely-above-sea level, relative flatness of western Bibb County, Georgia, bought a little piece of altitudinal heaven yesterday. We closed on a little house outside of Highlands, down hwy 106 towards Scaly Mountain. Sits at 3,717ft, as best I can tell. Looking forward to hanging out there and will be setting up new weather station when my Starlink finally arrives.

Thankfully, the terribleness for my area has subsided. Our NWS-Tropical Storm-Warned, county endured nearly an INCH, (1) of precipitation, along with a howling sustained wind of hmmmm, (checks again).......11mph with catastrophic gusts to........wait for it,.........23mph.

Just now got upgraded to Tropical Storm Warning here in Macon(Bibb County) Thinking my friends to the south around Valdosta are going to get an (unfondly) memorable event.

75 and muggy this early morn. And, just now, my weather radio just went off to tell me that my county(Bibb) had been upgraded to a Tropical Storm Warning.

Hot. Again. 101deg at MCN. Makes three days in a row above the century mark.

Summery here in Macon. 90deg at my place. 88 for the official high at MCN.

64deg and sho' nuff foggy here in Macon. And, we had 5.4" of rain in about a 8 hour period ending yesterday at about 11:00. Possibly more upstream from us. Lake Tobesofkee flooded it's banks for the first time in my 18 years on it. Boathouse is a mess, of course, but the really interesting thing is sheer amount of debris in the water this morning. I went out at daybreak and I swear you could just about walk across the whole thing. Logs and sticks and lumber, Oh, My !

Impressive return(looks to be approaching 60dbz) north of downtown. I'm guessing this came from somewhere in that fun, little, bunch of mucho-moisture? Here in Macon, 70deg, and awaiting the midnight round of watches and warnings. EDIT: posted this and then I see a white spot in that return (60+dBZ). I'm guessing that's some roofer contractor's dream radar return.

That is awesome. I, too am jealous.

42 here in Macon for our low. Incidentally, does anyone know why NWS radars are not accessible for the last hour or so? Rather, why the returns disappear on the screen, across the country, all at about the same time?

Low of 28deg at MCN this morning. That's a bummer for our peach growers. Not sure of extent of damage yet.

69deg when I awoke this morning. Birds seemed abnormally vocal. Macon averaged 8.2deg above normal for the month of February and had 8 days at 80deg or higher, hitting 85deg on the 28th. Pollen kicked off here about two weeks ago.

Tony ! Where you been? I'm with ya' on the 100 year sleet storm. Disappointed in our immediate outlook, though, for anything of the such as the cold looks allergic to our latitude. Maybe the SSW will deliver us a Valentines Day sledding event. Off topic, but how'd you fare in last weeks breezy conditions around Griffin? I came through on Saturday and whoa, what a mess !

Under a Tornado Warning until a few minutes ago. 65 and rain now. Looks like the spin-ups have been brief.

So, is no one thinking the ZR potential for Thursday the 22nd has the potential to eventually affect more of the Carolinas CAD- prone areas? -Decent highs up north -Traditional underestimation by the models -etc. 12z GFS shows a decent amount in Southwest VA.

Hope everyone was able to fully contemplate the nature of today's proclamatory name. Stewards we are, Servants we be, Though, dominion given, Our thoughts are to Thee. Grateful for Sun, Thankful for Sea, Creation, your bounty, Was given to me.

Looking for Grit's thoughts. Always a good read.

Someone clue me in, please. I've seen this before. There's a disconnect from what I see as the so-called "strength" of the hurricane as reported in it's windspeed, i.e., "Category 4 storm with winds of 155mph" doesn't match what my layman's eyes see reported on the various weather sites. The eyewall looks to be at this moment(12:29pm) coming ashore at Captiva/Sanibel Island. The stations that I see reporting (at the eyewall) the highest sustained wind is St. Stephens at 71mph with a gust to 86mph. So, my question is, is the number that is given to us by the hurricane folks supposed to match actual ground windspeeds?

Unqualified HOT in Macon today. 106deg at MCN. That follows a low this morning of 64deg. Very unusual spread of 41 degrees. For June, got to be almost unheard of.

Wow. Just a great spring day here in Macon. At MCN they reported a Low of 34(yep) and High of 75. That's a nice spread.

Well, It was great ! I was a little disappointed as we didn't get the sleet, though. We started around 3:00am with a little freezing rain but it changed over to almost all snow within an hour or two. Only had a light glaze, less than 1/10th inch before the snow started. But the snow was great. Almost 4" fell on Wednesday and another 7" on Thursday with the second system. We were on the west side so we had a little more than reported at STL. And it was low density snow, and so nice. But it was such a low density that it was mostly impossible to make a snowman.

For days I've been watching the Mid-America storm that is brewing. Decided late last night head up to see my daughter in St. Louis today so I'll be trying to experience one of those late 70's-early 80's sleet fests that I remember from my childhood. We never hear from "Tony" in Griffin, GA anymore on the board. Not sure where he's been these last few years but I know he would share my enthusiasm for such an event. NAM advertising a light glaze before dawn tomorrow, then an all day sleet storm of 1-2" until about midnight, then 10-12" on snow on top from midnight until early afternoon on Thursday. A perfect winter birthday cake!

A nice surprise(if you like a super-slick porch) as our deck is now completely covered with sleet here on the west side of Macon. 34deg and 90% sleet/10%rain now..