Tropical Storm Barry’s remnants, currently buffeting Charleston with a surprisingly rough dose of wind and rain, have impressed me. I went to Norm’s to grab my usual Italian Combo, fully loaded, and encountered some real impressive rain and wind. Ashley is underwater, and Ogier was headed that way (that was a couple hours or so ago). I even lost power briefly at the house. Ale lost power at his place in Mt. P and then was almost blown off one of the bridges on 526 — sounds like that wind is coming in real well, around 35 to 45 miles per hour. There’s a pretty rough pressure gradient forming that’s bringing a lot of the wind (no, it’s not Barry itself, per se).
Barry’s center of low pressure is pretty deep and seems to be pretty close. My weather station is reporting a barometric pressure of 29.52″. It was as low as 29.50″ at one point. These readings are from the console because I’m having some server trouble right now, so there’s currently no reporting to Weather Underground. I’m currently working on this. I’ve also had little luck with the rain reporting today — the wind blew the rain gauge off kilter earlier, so it wasn’t getting much of a reading at all.
Be careful out there — don’t get flooded out, and don’t get blown over!
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I’m showing almost 1.5″ in my analog gauge out in the front yard. It has actually been a mildly interesting day. The rain is much needed, and we needed it to be a slow soak. Definitely got that.
The NEXRAD storm totals would be in agreement with that — the soak was awesome today, except for the leak I seem to have developed around the window next to my bed. Nothing too major, but enough to be a concern.