Should be an interesting evening Friday.
I thought you were much further south Boyd. I was thinking west of Woodbine. Here is where a giant dropped napkins on the hidden creek golf club.Missed it by about that much!
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The yellow outline from Port Republic to Waretown is the severe thunderstorm warning area (radarscope app). Heading back out to continue my walk, we didn't get a drop here, sun is shining again now.
Yes, ABC news does that every night."...we are monitoring deadly weather that could affect 40 million Americans!!!...".
That is interesting. I would say that the core barrens has gotten some water levels back up. I was over at goodwater and compared to last year this time the water levels looked ok. In my area many of the storms that came thru hit us. It seems some wetlands that get overflow from streams are still quite dry. Boyd your area got more rain beginning of year and last year when the core barrens was getting very little. Now it’s kinda the opposite. The storms here have been quite variably with some areas getting dumped on and others nothing.Here's another severe weather outlook that seems somewhat at odds with the local forecast. These are coming from a prediction center in Oklahoma (IIRC) and not the local NWS office in Mount Holly. I don't know if the weather is getting harder to predict or maybe it's just my perception, but seems like recent forecasts have been less accurate. With news reports of staff cuts and buy-outs as high as 20% at NOAA, I have to wonder if this is one of the results....
Whatever. But it's getting really dry down here, the driest it has been since this thread was started in 2023. I have seen worse here, but not for awhile. Hopefully we get some rain before too long.
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