Dan Robinson
I've been in Raleigh for about 3 weeks now, and have been impressed at the near-daily passage of at least one strong outflow boundary. Most of them seem to come northward from sea breeze storms along the coast to the south and east. Others will move in from the northwest from the storms firing along the eastern mountain slopes. The outflow passages are distinct, sometimes with small gustnadoes in fields, wind audibly roaring in trees and lightweight items blowing and clanging around.
Many days, two opposite-moving boundaries will collide somewhere in and around the Raleigh metro. Last week, one such collision resulted in a small band of short-lived but intense storms - the radar loop being very cool to watch, as if the storms were 'squeezed' up from the surface.
Despite the outflow action, Raleigh itself seems to be in another true-to-life weather hole, being too far from the mountain storm triggers to the west and the sea breeze triggers to the east. Occasionally the outflows will initiate weak showers following along just behind them, but they rarely mature into storms.
Many days, two opposite-moving boundaries will collide somewhere in and around the Raleigh metro. Last week, one such collision resulted in a small band of short-lived but intense storms - the radar loop being very cool to watch, as if the storms were 'squeezed' up from the surface.
Despite the outflow action, Raleigh itself seems to be in another true-to-life weather hole, being too far from the mountain storm triggers to the west and the sea breeze triggers to the east. Occasionally the outflows will initiate weak showers following along just behind them, but they rarely mature into storms.
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