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Only area the NHC highlighted today.
Always something to watch tho...
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Fairly quiet in the Atlantic. The remnants of Chantal are moving up through Virginia on their way to Baltimore and DC. There's a wave moving off of Africa. The EPAC is going quiet and that's a signal the Atlantic will wake up soon. There's a tropical wave that's wandered West from Africa and keeps getting pushed to the South to the North of Hispaniola that I've talked about for what seems like forever. It's tenacious. And, there's rain in the NE Gulf near the Big Bend of Florida which is fairly common for this time of year and an area that could eventually develop.
I wrote this in an earlier blog..
....about Chantal and NC flooding.
Regarding Chantal I knew there would be flooding somewhere in North Carolina up the way from Raleigh and to the West of here. Not that Raleigh doesn't flood in some places, but in general Durham, Chapel Hill and cute little towns like Pittsboro further inland at a higher elevation where water is even more prone to run off! For a while on I was worried that if I mention the flooding possibility so much and it doesn't flood people will not trust me with the next storm that does cause flooding. But it was impossible to think that somewhere in NC it would not flood from Chantal.
It doesn't have to be a Hurricane. It doesn't have to be a Major Hurricane. It can be a Tropical Storm or a Depression but if it carries huge amounts of tropical moisture inland, uphill where the terrain has elevation as well as dips in the rood somewhere ...it's gonna flood. Rarely does a named storm get into inland parts of the Piedmont and historically when it does the rivers rise and hit flood stage. Currently this event is 3rd behind Fran that also made it inland into the Raleigh-Durham area. Chapel Hill is called Chapel HILL literally because there are hills and one big one! I always watch the MIMIC to see how much moisture a storm has and obviously Chantal had quite a bit. Again she made landfall in SC 15 MPH short of Hurricane status.
And, not to throw the local media under the bus, but yesterday on Sunday Morning the news was all about what happened at the local fireworks displays, parades and very little about Chantal. I was in shock Chantal was not the LEAD STORY but no they all did stories on some problem at Brier Creek Fireworks display where some kids shot off fireworks in the crowd and people got scared thinking it was a shooting and well you get the idea. Then they handed off to the Weather part of the news and they talked on downgraded but spinning Chantal in the area. Flooding was mentioned, but it was not harped on and again locals and old timers know which areas flood. Chantal should have been the lead story. I'm sorry that's how we do it in Miami and I've grown up with hurricanes. In fact when there was flooding going on and there were live rescues going on the news did not break in and go live. That upset me as many would stay off the road if they heard from a friend about the flooding and not driven into dips in the road and had their car stall out and need to be rescued. This "it's not news until after it happens" needs to end if we want people to take the proper precautions. I am not saying every weather person for the last few days did add that flooding could be a potential problem, yet many who are not obsessing on the weather go to the bathroom when the weather comes on. And, now days few watch the news vs looking for news stories on their social media feed. Until it bleeds it does not lead as we say in the news business so there's less precautionary info about possible flooding. And, parts of NC always get flood warnings the way Texas does and often they get lucky and there's no flood so they begin to ignore the warnings And, then there's a flash flood or a flooding event. Spectrum News covered it giving information and I will give them credit as the weather person in charge that night continually updated the height of the river flooding along the Tar and the Eno.
So once again I post this.
Every hurricane.
Every big storm.
Every time it floods.
We live in a river valley.
Each town has it's own river.
Towns were built along rivers.
As you move up inland...
..as we say.
Elevation begins.
Rain + Terrain = Pain.
Where the lighter green begins... there's elevation.
where the yellow is there's elevation.
Orange and rusty brownish red... mountains.
A close up of the Raleigh Durham area.
Any elevation matters when water runs downhill.
And even areas in Raleigh have hills and dips.
Crabtree Valley Mall... not far from where I live.
Is built in a valley it's in the name.
Water flooded up to the 2nd floor in places.
Crabtree Creek runs along the side of the Mall.
There's a big, pretty large hill nearby.
This was Hurricane Fran.
That's it.
Sorry my blog today is not so fun to read.
It's not sexy or cute or playful.
It's informative and I'll link to it again...
..the next time a storm moves inland.
Inland to Raleigh like Fran.
Inland to Durham like Chantal.
Inland like Hugo and Charlotte.
History of flooding in North Carolina...
..especially from dying tropical systems inland.
Study it.
Learn from it.
This is not about politics. NC flooded in hurricanes under Democrats and Republicans. This is not simply checked off as global warming event as it's been flooding since the first settlers lost family that were washed away in a flood and people either stayed or moved on. We still don't know what happened to the early settlers at Roanoke Island or what happened to Virgnia Dare but I'd bet money a hurricane storm surge washed them away and whoever may have survived move inland figuring they'd be safer. Who knows. This is not about aliens and if you want to go down other rabbit holes go for it but this is a story as old as time. And, research is always good. Here in my blog I'm talking on Hurricane History and that's what I am writing about.
Next time a hurricane or tropical storm gets inland into Raleigh or Durham or Chapel Hill or Pittsboro I surely hope people will remember and stay home and not drive into areas that are prone to flooding, especially not at night when it's dark. When my parents moved to Miami Beach in 1973 my mother had a friend who lived on a little street named Monad Terrace that backed up to Biscayne Bay and every full moon and especially King Tides this family took their valuables and put them up on tables and kitchen counters because the water would seep in and flood up to their knees often. Growing up in Miami and new to Miami Beach this sounded crazy, but it was just part of life on Monad Terrace where the bay curves in such a way that the water tended to funnel in and flood. Now there's huge luxury condos built there with awesome views and supposedly they have solved the flooding problem there.
Learn from history. When you move into a new area or a new state find out what the local dangers are and what you need to know.
It's that simple.
More on tropical possibilities tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be more playful and the blog won't go long, but this is a blog that needed to be written. And, again I'll use it again in the future as a reference when a tropical system approaches this area or any area inland including Western NC that I wrote and warned would flood and then horrifyingly watched it flood and realized many just didn't think it could or would to that and yet it did as it had done in the past.
This was no where near the tragedy of Texas flooding but if it was your store in Carrborro that flooded out with all it's inventory or your home that was flooded or your car that was underwater it was historic for you.
Be Safe
BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on X where it's mostly weather and elsewhere...weather and whatever.
Ps more rain is on the way this week and the rivers are still rising so there will be more localized flooding.
Oh and we had a few tornadoes touch down and 2 small dams gave way flooding neighborhoods in Moore NC. In my part of Raleigh it was rain, fun to see and a beautiful day with cooler temperatures but I was worried on some areas up the road and my fears sadly were realized.
With prayers for Texas....
...and some in NC.
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