Zero Rain but a Heck of a Storm in Charlotte
Blog reader Darryl dropped me an email this morning to say:
Darryl, I'm not sure why, and this is an AccuWeather client, so I've opened a ticket with our support staff to iron the problem out (any of you readers can do that too if you see a problem on AccuWeather.com or one of our client's websites).
My first thought, not knowing the weather situation, was that maybe the instrument that the Charlotte Observer used was in a different spot than Darryl's house - thunderstorms can drop heavy rain on parts of a county or even city while leaving others dry (and notice how far out of town the airport is on the map above). But then I looked at the Storm Total Precipitation image from AccuWeather.com RadarPlus and realized it was nearly impossible for any spot close to Charlotte (near where I was born, by the way) to have received 0.00" of rain yesterday (amounts did range from near zero to over 4 inches in the entirety of Mecklenburg County, however). The NWS Gauge-Adjusted Doppler-Precip Site told a similar story. A quick check of MESOWEST (The Government Mesonet) showed these amounts from actual rain gauges yesterday (it's likely, based on the map above, that the reading of "0" indicates a broken gauge):
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