Sounds like elevated convection. You see all the lightning but don't hear the thunder. It's like sitting on the bottom of a pool and looking up and everything moving but not hearing the sound.
Collards are almost ready for eating, shallots and garlic coming along nicely. Radishes and beets going in Saturday. Pepper, beans, squash and tomatoes are all started.
Thick cloud cover and this crapvection rolling into the I-81 corridor has probably nixed the afternoon risk of storms north of I-66. The 12z sounding out of IAD has a ConvT of 68° and the only place that really is exceeding that is from Warrenton south. Everywhere else is struggling to heat.
Here is the Twitter profile for a well respect pollution / aerosol earth scientist at NASA Goddard. I went to school with him and was always impressed with his knowledge of NOx and pollution mapping:
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx
My wife had to do the same thing when she was laid off for a 7 month period. We've learned more about the state's unemployment system than we care to know. PM me with any questions you may have.
Can we all make a pact to not look at or share the HRR or NAM past 24 hours? The MOD Risk bust in IL the other day should be a reinforcer to not trust meso models past HR 24.
We know of the lag in deaths after the number of cases stats to lax, but you wonder what this is doing to regions of the world right now in terms of knowledge and family lines of succession, etc.