I recorded 3.92" during this time. Thankfully, the lush green vegetation surrounding my house now helped to capture and absorb the liquid before anything could invade my basement.
Other locations saw over 6.5" for the same time period, such as Barren county Mesonet near Glasgow. Casey county Mesonet also recorded over 6" for the event. Two to four inches were quite common across several areas of central and east Kentucky. At times, the rainfall was so intense, flash flooding occurred in not less than a few locations.
Hopefully, we can dry things out, get some much needed yard work done, and then do it all over again, this time not as much rainfall...hopefully.
Your geography bee for the week is...Sawyer KY in McCreary county, just north of Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, and Sault Saint Marie MI share a very close approximation in terms of longitude coordinates (the west to east coordinates). Of course, the latitude coordinates, or north-south coordinates are much different, approximately 9.5 degrees difference. When I would chase storms, I often used the Great Circle Formula to determine how far away storms were versus how much time would be needed to drive and intercept (storms don't use the highway most of the time). Using the formula, one can calculate the distance between the two locations(as the crow flies, not actual driving miles)....
Converting the latitude and longitude coordinates from degrees to radians for the two locations(E2 and E5 radians) and (F2 and F5 radians) respectively and using this sample formula from my Excel spreadsheet, here is the distance...
=6367*ACOS((SIN(E2)*SIN(E5))+(COS(E2)*COS(E5))*(COS(F2-F5)))/1.609
Distance is 663 miles
| from | lat | long | lat(rad)e2 | long(rad)f2 | |
| ssm | 46.4977 | -84.3476 | 0.811538 | -1.4721433 | |
| to | lat | long | lat(rad)e5 | long(rad)f5 | |
| sawyer | 36.9001 | -84.3516 | 0.6440282 | -1.4722131 | |
| 662.8555 | miles |
Have a good week.
MS
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