We have gone 13 days without a decent rainfall after receiving 2.5 inches the first three days of September we have been dry since. On the other side of the spectrum Florence has been dumping copious amounts of rain in the Carolinas – one 20 hour rainfall total south of Wilmington is 17.38 inches – the rain gauge was knocked over by the hurricane and had to be put back up. Yesterday Jacksonville received 11.5 inches, Elizabethtown 19.02, Mt. Olive 15.6 and Kinston 13.35. CoCoRaHS rain gauges hold 12 inches of rain so these observers had to go out and empty them twice in a 24 hour period before getting their official reading. The feature graphic is the storms rainfall totals.
The National Hurricane Center announced at 5 a.m. Sunday that Florence had weakened to a depression, but that it would keep dumping rain — another five to 10 inches in central and western North Carolina and southwest Virginia, leading to flash flooding, prolonged river flooding, and greater risk of landslides.
The storm has unloaded about 6 trillion gallons of rain so far, according to Ryan Maue, a meteorologist for weathermodels.com. By the time it exits the East Coast, he expects the number to rise to 18 trillion gallons, enough to cover Texas in four inches of water and fill the Chesapeake Bay. In other words, “we’re only about one-third of the way through this,” Maue said.
As the storm continued its creep, Greg Carbin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, warned on social media Saturday night that parts of the North Carolina Piedmont and mountains in the western part of the state were at great risk.
Over the next 36 hours or so, he warned, those areas “will experience devastating flash flooding unlike anything in recent memory. Roads and bridges will wash away and damage will be severe.”
We will remain in our stagnant pattern thanks in part to Florence holding up systems from moving through the Great Lakes though there is an outside chance of a shower north of Grand Rapids. Our next chance of showers comes Tuesday as a weak cold front attempts to make its presence known but will probably fade out as it comes through. Rain chances will be in the 20 to 30% range. Better chances are from Wednesday night through Saturday morning when we may see an inch of rain through that period. Temperatures will remain above normal this week with three or four 80 degree days. Next week appears to be fairly warm until the temps drop off late in the week. Normal temps should be in the low 70s and around 50 at night. Chances of 80° days are dwindling as our daylight wanes. Sunset is now around 7:50….
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SOL! The worst pro sports franchise in history! Even worse than the Browns!
It is pathetic, unbelievable, and rather humorous all at the same time. I think GR needs to get a NFL team so we can forget about them.
+1000
The worst flooding ever in N Carolina!
No so called mini ice ages coming anytime soon ! Lmao !!!
Here are some pictures from the Wilmington Star newspaper.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/photogallery/NC/20180916/NEWS/916009999/PH/1?start=2
It looks like a lot of trees are down and of course some flooding but no real indication of widespread wind damages to homes or other buildings.
Slim
Wilmington now has recorded 19.14” of rain from Hurricane Florence. For the month they are now at 19.15” the record for September at Wilmington is 23.41” is 1999 and in 2nd place is 22.72 in 2010 and 3rd place is 20.10” in 1877. This year could top all of them. As for the year 2018 had been a wet year before the storm and as of this morning Wilmington has had 81.69” of rain 2018 will be the wettest year on record at Wilmington as the record for a whole year is 83.65” set way back in 1877 with 73.49” in 2015 in 2nd place. For comparison the wettest September in Grand Rapids is 11.85” in 1986 and the wettest year is 48.80” in 2008.
Slim
Wow!!! Highs in the middle 80’s yesterday, today and tomorrow, with heat indexes close to 90 degrees!! INCREDIBLE WARMTH, this time of year!! With EL NINO coming up this winter, we are looking at another MILD winter with little snow!! BRING IT!!!
Nice post, MV. I’m sitting on the back deck, enjoying my coffee, and trying to get my head around how much water is being dropped by Flo. It is incredible.
It is clear and 64° here at my house. So far this September’s mean is 69.4°(+3.6°) at Grand Rapids, At Muskegon the mean so far is 68.9° (+3.9°) in the center of the state at Lansing the mean so far is 68.6° (+3.7°) on the east side of of the state Detroit the mean is 72.1°(+4.8°) Detroit has had 4 days of 90+ this month. At Flint the mean is 68.6° (+4.6°) At Saginaw the mean is also 68.6° (+4.5°) Up north at Alpena the mean is 65.2° (+4.8°) at Traverse City the mean is 66.6° and that is good for a +3.7° In the UP Sault Ste Marie their mean is 65.6° (+5.8°) at Marquette the mean is 62.9° (+4.1°) and at Houghton the mean is 63.9° and that is good for a departure of +5.4°. The first half of September has been much warmer than average across all of Michigan. I am sure we will be hearing more of this from Mookie in the days ahead.
Slim
What an extended stretch of well above average temps we are having again. Even our overnight lows are back to 10 plus degrees above average. At some point it seems this would change, but it’s going on 4 years now of this pattern. Off to the beach today!
Good idea!! Have fun!!