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  2. Modfan2
    We brightened and dried a bit and heavy showers just popped here in E CT
  3. vortex95
    And memorable is relative. Short distances when it come st tstms can be huge. Ever happen to get a storm that just maxes out over your location w/ crazy CGs so close and relentless for like 5 min, and you are ducking for cover even indoors b/c the thunder so atypically loud and you are literally hearing electrical click/pops before or during every strike! And then after it is like, "whoa, best ever!" But is a very localized experience, esp. when it comes to close lightning strikes and how loud the thunder is. Still, when it happens, it is awesome! Gets the adrenaline pumping! I can never get enough of such experiences. Give me tons of LTG!
  4. wxmeddler
    For the record here is the 18z LWX Balloon. Really impressive thermodynamically. Not so impressive kinematically. Shear is lackluster for anything organized.
  5. BBasile
    Weak sauce. A couple rumbles of thunder and some light rain. Maybe something later? Hopefully? And KDIX broke... Again.
  6. CAPE
    Getting crushed here now. Frequent lightning, wind is picking up bigtime. Pouring. Hope it stays below severe criteria. I just want the rain.
  7. Stormchaserchuck1
    Really healthy look in the subsurface. Warm pool is extending much further west than 1997 at this time. This is a good El Nino to test everything against
  8. vortex95
    Storm coverage was better than fcst than either the HRRR or RRFS had ydy. Some supercell structures as well, but they had tough time sustaining for very long. Looking at the radar loop, things got messy very quickly w/ storms moving in various directions due to outflow and rotation, colliding w/ each other. This probably limited the svr wx b/c no one storm could sustain for long, so we got a lot of pulse svr storms, despite the decent wind shear and a lot of CAPE. Maybe if the smoke hung around thicker longer, that would have meant less storms, but any storm would have had a better chance to sustain and rotate? The balance when it comes to the mesoscale is tricky. Small differences can be huge as to storm mode, coverage, and severity, often you don't know it until it is happening. This unknown factor has it appeal. We are still "surprised" at times (June 5, 2024 being among the best recent example), and things can look exactly alike on paper for a setup on two days, but what actually happens as to sensible wx can be a lot different. You still get tstms and svr wx, but it goes far beyond that. Will the storms train/backbuild? How intense (frequency) will the CGs be? (that varies a lot it seems). Discrete cells, a SQLN, or clusters? And who exactly will get crushed? So localized in many cases!
  9. CAPE
    Its here. Sounds wicked. Got some cool shots while it was rolling in.
  10. Lava Rock
    Whole lotta meh. 0.06" Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk
  11. Itstrainingtime
    I thought the worst was coming after 8pm, no? (I sure hope you're right!)
  12. w1pf
    dewpoint dropping here in the Holyoke Highlands.. 69.6/66.9 0.45" today kinda doubt we'll get much out of the incoming..
  13. BlizzardNole
    I used to complain about Germantown being dry LOL. It's got nothing on the full-blown desert that is southern Calvert. Radar is now clear that no rain will fall here again today and it won't next week either. We won't get real rain here until late fall when we start getting those nino-fueled Gulf lows.
  14. weatherCCB
    Nothing but light shower here
  15. anotherman
    Basically nothing at my house today.
  16. SnowtoRain
    Looks like it is trying to build your way.
  17. arlwx12
    Really pouring down near DCA, visibiliity under 1/4 mile.
  18. vortex95
    I attached the VIS image at 1716z (13:15 EDT on the image is 1:15pm EDT, right?) Was this CG verified? Sometimes isolated strikes are misplotted when there is a lot of activity. No anvil overhead or close to Damascus, but +CGs has been known shoot out laterally up to 10 mi from a CB. And when a storm, esp. a supercell, has a thick anvil streaming well downwind (can be well over 100 mi when winds aloft are strong), you can get CGs out of the anvil 50+ miles away. Farthest I have seen reported and verified is 90 mi from the parent cell core out of the anvil (storms near Enid OK and in strikes far NW OKC)!
  19. CT Rain
    Meh
  20. Baroclinic Zone
    Brief period of showers. Nothing noteworthy. Temps are nice though. 70F
  21. vortex95
    Probably +CGs and the thunder was enhanced by the nocturnal inversion!
  22. Blizzard of 93
    Hopefully the showers & storms in western PA move east & provide beneficial rain later on for those that missed out earlier today.
  23. Blizzard of 93
    .66 of rain in Marysville today through 5 pm.
  24. vortex95
    GFS MOS had 93-94 and it got to 93 at DCA. And the GFS does not have smoke integrated into it, so apparent the smoke was not a factor for heating. The Td got to 77 and DCA and IAD. You get more bang for you buck per deg for Td than T when it comes to increasing CAPE. There is a sig difference between say 72 Td and 77 since moisture increase is not linear, and it really goes up fast once in the 70s!
  25. WxUSAF
    I missed the action in Columbia due to a funeral… but my son said it was “scary”. As @Herb@MAWS posted in the other thread, about 1” on the day now. Just heard thunder again.
  26. pazzo83
    i was on the verge of thinking it couldn't rain here anymore lol
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