Wet, wet, wet... ! (>9"/hour!)

[SLOweather]

This evening, here at SLOweather, we had a microcell almost too small to be seen on radar pass right over us. The rainfall was intense enough to knock out our Dish Network TV for 10 minutes or so. (Our old BUD never had a rain dropout, but the dish was so big that wind would cause problems at times.)

We had rains heavy enough to overtop the gutters, and hail the size of peas. On the Davis console, I saw a rain rate of 8.41"/hour ! That's about a tipper click every 14 seconds, or 4 a minute. Apparently, I missed the peak, as the graph shows something over 9"/hour!



I had a little trouble as I was trying to post this, as our cable Internet went out for a short while, so I tethered to my cell phone.

Here's a pic of the hail on the deck:

[DanS]

Think you may have those numbers flipped, more like a tip just over every 4 secs and 14 tips/minute (but math was never my forte).    Either way that's a heck of a lot of water in a short time.

[SlowModem]

We had rains heavy enough to overtop the gutters, and hail the size of peas. On the Davis console, I saw a rain rate of 8.41"/hour ! That's about a tipper click every 14 seconds, or 4 a minute. Apparently, I missed the peak, as the graph shows something over 9"/hour!

Keep this handy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark

[Aardvark]

we need rain

[wxman1952]

wow, some rain and rainfall rate out there. On the subject of rain, when looking to see how much rain is forecasted a persons area, what are some of the best websites or forecasting sites for rainfall in the next 24 or 48 hours?

[Cienega32]

That sounds like my type of Monsoon weather! Impressive numbers!

[Aardvark]

we were in Texas over spring break, down by Belton.  It rained 6 inches overnight.  The only thing I could think about, it would be cool to have my Davis outside recording that ..  it came down pretty strong with wind...