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Where to begin... The light rain started here around 7pm Sunday night, with mostly light showers and drizzle. By 9-10pm, it really wound up. The main shield of precip finally centered right over our area and we got trained by heavy downpours and thunderstorms. I saw 2 thunderstorms last night. The lightning was fairly intense, about 1 strike every 3 minutes. At about 10:30-11pm we had a downpour that registered a rainfall rate of 6.73" per hour! That heavy rain continued through to dawn, then mostly showers with some heavier stuff. This was a massive system, stretching from the Florida Keys to the tip of Maine!

The numbers:
Total for storm: 1.94"
Highest rainfall rate: 6.73"/hr
Lowest pressure: 1004.2mb
Pressure drop: 1029mb Sunday am to 1008mb by midnight
Highest wind gust: 14mph
Rain total for March: 5.04"
Yearly total liquid precip: 10.41"

Well, get ready for a big warmup with temps in the 80's this week!

5PM Update

5pm update. Radar is filing in fast as the system taps into the Gulf. Severe storms and heavy rain are being reported and head this way. Still saying 2.5" at least here.

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Today-Tonight-Tomorrow

Well, looks like a big rain maker is on our doorsteps. The system is swirling away to the east in Tenn. now. It should suck in Gulf moisture and wrap that up this way tonight. Embedded t-storms could cause locally heavy rain. 4 inches isn't out of the questions for some areas. We should get a good dumping tonight, 1"+, and 2" tomorrow. Keep an eye on the radar Radar

Forecasts:
Accuweather-3.32"
NWS-1.75 to 2.75"
TWC-1-3"
Me-2.25-2.75" for the metro

Radar update at 5pm