YetAnotherRDUGuy

Err. Technically it hasn't made landfall today at all. Help me out man. What are we arguing about?

You were certainly close. If only you had said cat 2... But keep your head up! Maybe you'll call the next one right.

This whole sharpie-Alabama-forecast thing. I swear, it's like reading an article straight from The Onion.

Can ya'll imagine if Greg Fishel made an account on here one day, and suddenly started posting on here with a met tag? Lord have mercy--some of us would just melt down and lose our minds. Greg--if you're lurking here, DO IT! PLEASE! IT WOULD BE SO EPIC! Course, some of ya'll would be skeptical that it's really him. But not me. I would believe.

Been focused on NC impacts for obvious reasons, but this Canada impact looks to be no joke. That's a Hurricane making landfall almost directly over Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then directly impacts Newfoundland thereafter. (as a post tropical, but still) I wonder how often Canada issues Hurricane Warnings.

Are you MAD?? It's still Summer. TOO EARLY TO BRING THE MOJO FOR A SNOWACANE. (even for you) Wait to bring that S#!& in Dec at least. Not NOW. This ain't Canada.

It's all your fault. All the cool kids were here until you showed up.

Ugh. Well I hope they've learned they're lesson since then..

me sowwy

I'd be more worried about Dorian if Florence hadn't came thru last year. I figured if anything survived Florence, it can handle this one. (in the Shallotte area) My mom's between OIB and Sunset. Her house backs into a creek that empties into the Intercoastal. She's staying with her sister in Little River that's about 3 miles inland that's got some slight elevation, and doesn't have much trees around. (which means I ain't too worried about wind impacts) When this thing clears out, I'm heading down to Mom's Fri night/Sat to help with any cleanup. I don't expect there will be too much because she's got oaks on her property that have been there for years, and survived a few Cat 2's (and Florence) without much damage. But I'll bring the chainsaw just in case.

I actually LOL'ed at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar We have ways of mapping terrain even when completely covered by clouds. Apparently they used the same thing when mapping out Venus, which is completely covered by clouds. Science is neat!

Nah sir. I was quoting SENC in an earlier post. I was kidding.

A whole can of worms opened up there. Some valid and some suspect. Too much to address in just one post. You're right about SENC being one big swamp. Part of the reason it's never really been developed too much. Well, until recent years.

Alright SENC, it's all starting to fit. Big time skepticism of flood maps. Some allusions to this storm only being a cat 3. Prior skepticism of Michael's intensity last year. And now a joking reference to storm chasing, and spouting the "False Hoax" of AGW. (which I had to look up, but apparently refers to global warming) How far down the rabbit hole does the conspiracy go?

Tracking right over your house. 6-7 days from now. That's enough time for it to trend away from you, and then trend back closer again..

Shazam! Dorian starting to look more like Matthew in track and intensity. FL understandably getting all the attention, but everyone near the coast of GA, SC, NC needs to keep both eyes peeled on the forecast. VA probably should as well. Cautiously optimistic major flooding potential doesn't extend to inland areas of Carolinas.

Yea, I grew up in a neighborhood off Skeet Club Rd. N High Point is pretty similar to the rest of Greensboro climo wise (from what I remember). We'll see what happens.. Weren't you in Tallahassee before? and now you're in Durham? That means you'll be in the game for at least half of the winter threats this year.

Ya'll might surpass 96 by Sunday if current trends hold.

Sooooooo, could be moving to Greensboro in August. Would be signing a 1 year lease if I take the opportunity. Can I change my name to YetAnotherGSOGuy?

I didn't mean it.

LOL@ having at least 50% chance of rain at RDU from 5am Wed morning until about 5pm Sat evening. 84 hours. Remember when we had to worry about droughts around here? I think the last one was back in the 90's, but I'm sure someone in here will post some data in the past 5 years to prove me wrong.

Rant begin: Right now is supposed to be the middle of winter which means in theory the coldest of the cold should be happening right now and I know we just had the polar vortex in the Midwest but it didn't really get down here and my NWS forecast shows 60's for highs for the next 7 days and I'm so depressed and when that happens I start not caring about run-on sentences and punctuation and how about I just turn off my heat for a week so I don't have a high power bill because we might as well have some damn benefit to this torch pattern and how about I start looking for job openings in FL if I wanted 60 F&%'in degrees in winter for a whole week. Rant ended (thank you for your time).

Yea, but just how accurate is the CMC at day 18??? I feel like it tends to dig too much at that range and we lose the storm around day 16. But that's just me. On the other hand, if it shows a storm at day 15, you might as well start the thread now.

The discussion thread just threw out a term I don't think I've ever heard/read before. What the heck does 'anafontal' mean?