Sometimes, You Just Need a Tropical Storm

The average peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is considered to be around September 10.  After that point, the chances for tropical systems will start a slow decline.  To this point, the Atlantic season has been relatively uneventful (wood knocking sound here).

In a seemingly unrelated bit of news, on Wednesday, Sept. 2 the South Carolina Drought Response Committee put our area back under the drought designation.  After we got out of a drought with our spring rainfall, a rather dry July and August has set us back again.

This time of year, our part of the Southeast often relies on moisture from tropical systems to bring us rain…in this case, needed rain.  Certainly, we don’t want a large, powerful storm to affect us, but…as far as rainfall is concerned…a brush with a tropical depression or a tropical storm could be very beneficial in the short-term.

Of course, hurricane season runs through the end of November, so we still have a few months during which an extra burst of tropical moisture might wander our way.