I can't remember a summer with this much cloudy, damp conditions. It's like winter but hot and humid instead of cold and damp. It's very frustrating for those of us that work outside and need dry conditions.
I'm not sure we need a flood watch today. Seems like the boy who cried wolf. Looks like the activity is winding down for the day. Not bad at all today. Nice breeze, cloudy and not that hot.
I'm sitting in the shade watching my weed plants grow in my garden. It's not bad. Nice breeze. My cannabis plants are dancing around in the breeze and hot sun as I type lol
37 minutes straight of extremely heavy rain and still dumping. 450 from Crofton to Annopoils is experiencing flash flooding capable of washing vehicles off the road. The South River Watershed is experiencing extreme rainfall and flash flooding. The rain is absolutely roaring.
This looks like what the HRRR had earlier. I watched this storm complex build from one lone cloud. It's engulfing the lowlands as I type. Super heavy tropical rain and increasing lightning.
My reverse psychology worked!! It feels pretty tropical out here now. Earlier it didn't feel to bad out. Hopefully we get an interesting evening again today. I'm off due to weather delays on the projects we're working on. I'm headed off on a hike. I kinda hope i get stuck in a storm deep in the woods lol.
I'm surprised we're not seeing headlines from Richmond this morning. It looks like storms sat over the same area all night.
The models today really like the lowlands. They suggest stationary cells develop and sit over the lowlands due to a sea breeze boundary. Than storms roll in over the same area from the west.
The line kinda died out but flared back up right at my doorstep. Their was suddenly a big increase in lighting strikes and loud thunder. The lowlands are getting rocked.
Upwelling from south winds can turn that heatwave into 60 degree chill fest overnight. The hottest summers sometimes have the coldest water temps. The bay is different. It gets hot.
That depends on wind direction. Your best bet for seeing warm clear coastal waters is a NE wind.
Models don't seem that impressed with big rain later. I did notice the HRRR seems to have juiced up a little bit.
I had a decent soaker in my yard. It looks like .80 from the tropical remnants as the skirted just south of the lowlands. The sun is out and the sky is a dark blue. It actually feels pretty nice out.
I have no clue what the weather is going to do this week. One model has crazy rain. The next has nothing. It's hard to schedule work when the forecast is so iffy.