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Checking out radar tonight... is this going to be another classic 'Carolina Split'? It looked a lot more promising a couple hours ago, but now... *sigh*

Is their any explanation as to why this keeps happening? You have a wall of precip over 1,000 miles long and it splits right at the Carolinas and nowhere else.

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Is their any explanation as to why this keeps happening? You have a wall of precip over 1,000 miles long and it splits right at the Carolinas and nowhere else.

 

My guess are these systems  keep coming in oriented north to south and when they hit land in florida they rapidly dry up.  We need a 45 degree frontal zone or moisture thrown back from the Atlantic.

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My guess are these systems keep coming in oriented north to south and when they hit land in florida they rapidly dry up. We need a 45 degree frontal zone or moisture thrown back from the Atlantic.

Jim Cantore explained this morning that the storms will travel torwards the highest moisture in the atmosphere ( dp's) and he said this morning , despite what the short range models were showing , the storms would drift more torwards S AL, GA, and N FL, where the highest DP's were and they would cut off the moisture transfer to the North. Looks like he was right.
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Geez----now instead of a dry Saturday into Sunday night, my grid is showing a chance of rain/drizzle/showers from tonight through Monday 2:00PM?? Guess the 'front' is going to stall out closer to the coast instead of passing offshore?

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Enjoy it ---- up this way they're squashing any rain.

 

AS OF 831 PM FRIDAY...   INTERESTINGLY... RADAR DEPICTED COVERAGE OF LESS THAN 1 PERCENT OVEROUR NORTHERN PIEDMONT WITH THE COLD FRONT SLIPPING SOUTH THISEVENING. THE FRONT WAS CLEARLY VISIBLE VIA THE 0.5 REFLECTIVITY ONRADAR THIS EVENING TRACKING SOUTH INTO THE TRIAD AND TRIANGLE AREASAT MID-EVENING. A SHOWER WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN VA... BUT JUSTTHE VERY LIGHT ISOLATED VERY LIGHT RAIN SHOWER NOTED NORTHOF GSO WITH THE FRONT OVER NC. IT REALLY LOOKS AS THOUGH THE WINDOWOF OPPORTUNITY FOR SHOWERS IS CLOSING RAPIDLY WITH THE FROPA ITSELFAS RADAR TRENDS... OBSERVATIONAL DATA... AND THE HI-RES MODELSSUPPORT LITTLE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY. WE WILL DROP BACK POP FOR ANISOLATED SHOWER TO AROUND 15 PERCENT OVERNIGHT. IT ALSO APPEARS THATAT LEAST HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT INTHE SW FLOW ALOFT. WE WILL MAINTAIN THE MOSTLY CLOUDY FORECAST...BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY LATER IN THE NW. LOWS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER40S TO MID 50S WITH THE COOLER/DRIER LOW LEVEL AIR ARRIVAL DELAYEDUNTIL LATER TONIGHT.  
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Looks like RAH is feeling our pain... :D

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AS OF 345 PM SATURDAY...WELL IT REFUSES TO RAIN IN CENTRAL NC...YESTERDAY OR TODAY...BUTMODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW RAIN LATER THIS EVENING AND AT TIMES ONSUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT.
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Well the NWS JAX didn't say anything about why nothing made it anywhere over the FCST area. They just mention that a meso high dominated the FL peninsula which was well advertised by the NAM12. All the runs of the NAM12 also had a significant amount of precipitation over the area.

Apparently there are 45-55mph winds to our SW near the FL/GA border associated with stratiform light rain over the area.

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Love the wording RAH has been using lately. Good stuff...

ELSEWHERE... ONLY PATCHY LIGHT SHOWERSHAVE BEEN OBSERVED.RDU HAS REPORTED 0.02 OR JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE ALL THEVISIBLE YELLOW POLLEN COLLECTING ON EXPOSED SURFACES TURN TO PASTE!
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