Tropical Systems

We got rain from the “Barry” storm yesterday. Nothing “hard” but slight sprinkling to steady light rain over a period of time. It’s wet outside and that is so very nice. We truly need ANY rain we can get. We were not “forecasted” to get any of the “Barry” weather, btw. I don’t put huge stock in such things. We get the forecast and they say we will, and then we don’t. Or that we won’t, and then we will. Or that it’ll be big, and it is only slight. Or that it will be … on and on.

We live in an area that just either gets it or misses it, we are east, but not quite East Enough. Also we notice often that radar shows rain coming, any sort of rain from any system or non-system, and when it gets to our county, it skirts around it, for what it’s worth. It’s weird, something I’ve noted for awhile, dealing with the horrid drought conditions we’ve had in the past 10 or so years, especially the first few we’ve lived here.

I’ve been waiting for Hurricane Season to begin, and now it’s here. We need lots of rain in the South, and the tropical systems are what bring the needed relief. I do not wish, as I’ve stated in past years, for damaging storms per se, to the costal regions, but that is what a hurricane is, a big storm full of badness and goodness. People like to live on the coast and must pay the piper atimes. It’s what it is. Inward regions of land rely on the tropical systems to relieve drought, or to just supply the Summer rains that keep a deficit away. As well, wetlands are renewed.

The rain total for the last 24 hours at a distant enough away not to be what we experienced at our house weather reporting station says they got about .43 inches of precipitation. Less or more is what we had, no doubt, in any case. 🙂

So more than a smidgen, nearly 1/2 an inch is nothing to sneeze at. In fact, it does “clear the air”.

Beneficial Rain from Tropical Rainstorm Barry Remains

Barry became extratropical Saturday night, but it is still a strong storm system, centered over the South Carolina coast. It will continue to bring heavy rain to the Carolinas, mid-Atlantic and eventually the Northeast through Monday. As is usually the case with an extratropical low, much of the rain is falling in a band from Virginia, through the western Carolinas into eastern Georgia. The rainfall is mainly welcome across this region, as most places have received less than half of the normal year-to-date rainfall. The heavy downpours will provide relief to those fighting the wildfires across Florida, as well.