Friday afternoon...
>> Friday, February 25, 2011
It is quite breezy out there this afternoon. Sustained winds across much of the Piedmont are in the 15-30mph range with gusts to 30-40mph. Winds are even higher in the mountains with gusts over 60mph at times.
The band of rain overperformed a bit when you got up around the Triad to the VA border region. The Triad itself received about a half inch, but some spots a little north of there got closer to an inch.
In the southern Piedmont and much of the Triangle region, click here, then come back for the rest of the discussion.
Amounts were generally less than a tenth of an inch. Not what we needed, and nothing to even put a small chink in the drought's armor.
The weekend looks quiet with sunshine tomorrow and clouds rolling in Sunday.
The next system arrives later Monday and Monday evening. Another round of showers, and maybe a few storms, will arrive then. For the spots that missed out on any decent rain, I think the odds are that a little more rain will fall, but with the primary surface low tracking well north once again, don't look for drought-denting rains. We will watch the severe potential too....a little more instability to work with, plus a more favorable time of day for storms.
It was indeed an active severe weather day yesterday across the MS and TN Valley. Here is the compilation of storm reports.
