I thought by getting out of stephens city and the shadow of North Mountain I'd left this nonsense behind. But this place is even worse. Been here 2 summers and yet to see even 1 good thunder storm and real downpour (2"+ / hr). If we get a storm, we're always on the edge or it's dying on approach and strengthening on exit.
.05" here.
Absolutely unbelievable. Time after time every event misses us to the east. Even a God damn tropical storm tracking to our west puts us in a dry slot and drops the rain east of us.
Got .31" Friday afternoon and evening. .5" Monday night, and .3" yesterday afternoon.
Better than nothing, I suppose.
Brings the total since May 3 up to 5.51".
Some minor activity came at me from the south. Lined up right at me, then skipped 1/2 mile to my east as it arrived at my door step. Nearby PWS has. .35" and climbing. Sprinkles here. Then that cell skipped right back to the west the moment it was north of me. I swear you couldn't pilot it that well to do that. Its ****ing incredible. WTF.
And now that cell has exploded just to my north.
And the next cell slides just off to my west. I ****ing give up. I'm ****ing done.
Round #4 failure is especially comical, since this is an entirely new direction this week. If anyone needs a laugh, check the radar to see that swath of storms coming from the SW slam into the drought dome and vaporize.
Storms have been here for 2 hours. Got scraped by round 1 as a cell popped over top of me just south of the first cell that was missing me to the north. Picked up. 25" while on the verge of nothing....sun shone for most of that.
Round 2 did exactly what they normally do: pass by to the north and south then merge into a line once east of me. Not a drop from that one, meanwhile that line is now raging. Absolute continuous thunder. No doubt torrential rain.
Guess I'm good for the next 5 weeks.