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August 2012 Obs/Discussion Thread


Marion_NC_WX

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Looks like its starting to dry up as I type, but several showers and storms breaking out ahead of the main line.....maybe we'll get lucky but I'm not holding my breath. Its been a really long time since I've seen a MCS make it all the way across the south including N. Ga.

CAE doesn't think it will make it this far

.NEAR TERM /TONIGHT/...

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WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA. CONVECTION

WELL TO OUR WEST NOT EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE MAJORITY OF THE AREA

AT THIS TIME. ACTIVITY PUSHING INTO DRIER AIR AND THIS SHOULD HELP

TO WEAKEN THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO CENTRAL GA. MAIN IMPACT

SHOULD BE AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS AFTER 00Z. GUIDANCE AND LOCAL

TEMPERATURES ARE VERY CLOSE AND WILL STAY NEAR CONSENSUS THROUGH

THE PERIOD.

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Here is GSP's explanation of said rainfall potential:

Thus, who knows? You might get lucky and see it hold together long enough. Time will tell...

4:30 update from GSP

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/...

AS OF 430 PM...A BROAD NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED LINE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER BETWEEN AL AND

GA. THE LINE IS PUSHING EAST INTO WEAKLY UNSTABLE AIR...WITH THE

LATEST CAPE ANALYSIS INDICATING ONLY 100 J/KG OF CAPE OVER THE

WESTERN NC MTNS. BASED ON THE RADAR TRENDS...LIGHTNING RATES...AND

RATE OF WARMING CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES...A BAND OF FADING CONVECTION

WILL REACH THE WESTERN NC MTNS BEFORE TOTALLY DISSIPATING DURING THE

LATE EVENING. I WILL INCREASE POPS TO CHC ACROSS THE WESTERN NC MTNS

AND HIGHLIGHT GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HWO. I WILL ALSO UPDATE

THE FORECAST TO ALIGN TEMPS AND DWPTS WITH OBSERVATIONS.

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Ha, those spoiled Atl. northward folks had to hope a system made it in from Ala., lol. I am having to hope that batch in Miss. makes it here :) I had rain pretty much 8 days running, and it couldn't add up to two inches, lol. Even when it rains everyday down here, it ain't much. T

Sometimes is feels like JustinTown down here, lol.

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*****..just think...5 degrees away from the 40's. Amazing.

Yeah it is pretty amazing and gets me all jacked up for fall. I was actually surprised we got that low.

Thanks to .04" of rain from that MCS and the skies clearing right at sunset, I'm already down to 59.1.

I lucked out and picked up .4" from the MCS. It is a comfortable 68 out no.

Lucky you. That thing just died as it got to my area. Only .04".

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.38" combined here

4.19" for the month to date

I want to give a shout out to tony also. Make sure to tell the moles to save some for winter!

Lol, that's why I pulled the mojo before they could conjure up something tropical for us. I just can't risk the potent juju being used up before Jan. and Feb. :) I've gotten .2 today, some early, and some more late. Pretty much a little bit every day since I put the starey eyed critter up as my avatar. Got scared and took it down, but still got a few tents today. I'm going to try for a huge, big, mega sleet storm this year. A six to ten inch dumping for the ages, and if that translates to a 14 to 20 inch snow for ya'll, all the better, lol.

I've been under two light blankets these last few nights, as the fan blows right on me, and it has been great sleeping!! This has been a hot, hot summer, but the breaks make is seem less so, to me, anyway. T

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Pretty pathetic when you're excited to report that a storm blew up 'almost' overtop of you and you managed to snag .08" from it before it moved on and really got going over towards Selma and Kenly. *sigh*. That pushes us over the 1" mark for the month, though!!! :thumbsup:

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Any thoughts on tomorrows storms? Slight risk for North Georgia and the Western Carolinas. Sounds like mainly a wind threat. 80% chance of rain according to FFC.

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First thought..... I hope we don't get shafted with the storms missing us to the north by 50 miles. I'll take a look tonight.

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Huge PV setting up over SE Canada over the next 3-5 days,if we had this setup in winter it would be pretty cold out.Also it looks like what's left of the tropical system in the gulf gets pulled up in about 5-6 days as well through the SE.

Interesting run today on the GFS.

With high school football season starting tonight I have been away from the weather scene most of this week. Noticed GSP mentioned in the discussion about a tropical low so I took the moment to scan through the models. Both 12z GFS and Euro shows something coming from the Western GOM sometime around Wednesday/Thursday of next week.

GFS has a more distinctive tropical feature just off the Texas coast and develops it somewhat. Comes ashore SE Lousiana and then travels through the deep south. A piece of the 850 vort shoots northeast into the Carolinas while another piece hangs back in Alabama Day 6...

Euro is a more strung out vort feaure from the very start that hangs around the South for multiple days...

All in all interesting and something to follow...however gut feeling and climo wants to be weary of any storm that forms in that general area, lot of times those tend to get caught up close enough to Texas to be more of an issue for them than it is anybody else.

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