Ensembles offer some hope. 18z operational is probably overly pessimistic for Northants as far as Friday's event goes, the mean and control show more precipitation here. On the negative side, it was an outlier for Monday. I'm just going to focus on the lovely yellow line even though its chances of coming off are incredibly tiny, as it shows me what I want to see...
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