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^Just. Wow.

63.9 over 63. Amazing! Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

All the windows open! Love me some CAD!

Same here in Hickory. Amazing lightning show all around. Very vivid CTG lightning strikes between 4:30 - 5:00 PM.

An endless amount of concrete/asphalt with a dash of jet exhaust will do quite a number on a city's official temperature reporting station. It's hot on the tarmac! Who'd have thought that?!

Here's hoping the GFS is wrong, as it often is... On the other end of the spectrum, I got to visit the Wind River Range in Wyoming the week before last. The first morning I was there, my Kestrel read 37 F as the low temperature in the morning. Every other morning was in the low 40s. It's amazing what elevation and latitude can do when working together. Loved it! It would be hard to beat western Wyoming for summer weather. The high prairie is above 6000 feet everywhere, there are hardly any people around, and the mountains are spectacular. I got to backpack through several snow fields too. Christmas in July!

There you go. More words helped out a lot. Please continue to post but help us understand what you are saying by adding much more detail...as you just did. I had airplane head anyway when I wrote my first comment. Operating on 3 hours of sleep right now. Red-eye flights suck. So, maybe it was clearer to others and just not to me. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Something complex has become more abstract? I never understand your posts, calm_days. It's as if you are trying to be obtuse and revel in your successful attempts. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Get 'em, hailstorm! Crazy heat island effect. Who puts a temperature gauge in jet exhaust?! Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Heavy thunderstorms this afternoon here in Hickory. I picked up 1.98 inches of rainfall in about an hour. Dime-size hail too.

Latest update on Barry:

Not quite that intense. I think that would be hard to beat. =) We were up on a hilltop overlooking Kentucky Lake (Paris Landing State Park). The trees swayed back and forth as if they were fans. Left, right, swirling. It was very eerie and surreal. No rain fell as this was happening. Then it calmed down briefly before the rain hit us. Hard. The gust front, derecho, or whatever we want to call it was one of the most impressive and sustained that I have ever witnessed. We then left out this morning before the next MCS passed through. Raced it home all day until it caught up to us at about the NC/TN state line on I-40. Torrential rainfall on that curvy, walled interstate section is no fun at all. Looks like the third MCS will hit overnight.

I was in Paris, TN, northwest of Nashville, when it came through the state park there around 6:30 PM. Crazy amounts of wind ahead of the rain and small hail. I was in awe watching the trees sway back and forth with such ferocity.

This is one time when I wish you had been wrong, grit.

^Those are truly beautiful, eyewall! Thanks so much for sharing. Number 2 is my favorite, and then number 3. I just made that second picture my desktop background. It's beautiful!

Here comes the heat... Ugh.

Man, we really need this rain... /ducks for cover and grins sheepishly/ Up to 1.17 inches for the day already...

I'm at Lake Lure this weekend, but watched that radar signature closely. Fortunately, it weakened considerably before it passed over my house. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

We get it. You've got the weather all figured out, and we are stupid for even enjoying a chase that might not pan out. Come on, man. It's a weather board. And, more than that, it's a snow-lovers board. We are going to talk about what the models show and what might happen, and I won't apologize for that. If it doesn't snow, life will go on. If it does snow, I will enjoy it (just like the anticipation), even if it only falls from the sky and never actually accumulates.

The 06Z 12Z NAM was very friendly to upstate SC with a 7-inch lollipop of snowfall. We now have a HWO for up to one-half-inch of snowfall tomorrow morning. Crazy, but lovin' it! Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

The 00Z 12K NAM does not disappoint! A nice 6-inch swath of snowfall from Charlotte to Greensboro! Upstate SC gets 1-3 inches. Also, the afternoon discussion from GSP was priceless. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet. Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

Yeah, look at the classic LP placement on the 12Z ICON:

Congratulations, you forced me into a Google search this morning, and I just added a new word to my vocabulary. =) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

Oh, come on! =) You know everyone pulls for snow in their own backyards. It doesn't mean I hate people that live in eastern NC or anything. If you guys get snow out of this, I will enjoy seeing your pictures, just as I did when the posters from Jacksonville, NC, shared a few weeks back. I also think it's more likely (see earlier post) that you will see snow out of this than I will. Anyway, I pull for snow IMBY every month of the year -- January - December. Those of you pulling for spring to prevail now that we are in late March don't march to the beat of the same drum as do I. The advent of spring only means that summer (and the awful heat and humidity) will shortly be here. Ugh! Winter is coming...

True. There is that option. I don't think either one is likely, though -- westward trend or expansion of coverage. I think you stand the best chance of getting something in your backyard if you live to the north and east of Raleigh in this setup. But, who knows? We'll keep watching...