Eskimo Joe

zzzzzzzzzzz...a lot of these calls are vehicles stranded in high water less than 2ft...low lying areas and flood prone locations. Nothing earth shattering.

Eh, more like car stalled out in about 18" of water.

M3.66" Gaithersburg.

0.4" New Windsor...only light rain all day. Very ho hum.

0.3" storm total in New Windsor, Carroll County

Ellicott City 3.0 today...calling it.

I'll refine this a bit more by saying Baltimore east to Philly. That's my favored area.

East of I-95.

Never trust either really.

Never trust the NAM

Looks similar to what I posted...narrow corridor in VA and MD. I'll shut up in here and post less.

That's great and all, but again it was a narrow area in LWX forecast area. It was a much bigger deal for us in PA and NY. Rainfall map shows that narrow stripe better:

We can take it to the banter/ot thread since it's a past event but Lee wasn't a big deal for the immediate DC/Baltimore metro areas. Some isolated areas got big totals but the widespread heavy rains were confined to the mts. of VA, MD and PA.

Lee was weak sauce outside of the usual flood prone areas.

This thing is quickly trending away from any impact other than just some rain...bummer. This had potential a few days ago.

Very dry for a 4 day forecast. Enough to water the lawns and that's about it.

Double that and we're talking. My minimum rainfall is 7" in under 12 hours.

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Updated long term LWX AFD:

A west trend is good for us.

Agreed. I started in meteorology but transferred to Geography and then went through the MS, Emergency Management program at Millersville. It's lead to a decent career. Big message is that you have to be comfortable with moving a fair distance for your first job. You might have to move cross country for a 'meh' position to put your time in. If you're going to stick with meteorology that's great...seriously the field isn't all doom and gloom like some make it out to be. You just have to find what keeps your interest going and push through hard. Take internships, do research and don't forget about working started help desk positions for things like Raytheon (they make AWIPS) or Michael Baker. My RA in college started in the private sector and it boosted his career quickly once he got into NWS.

As of now, Monday afternoon through Wednesday midday is our best shot for a soaker before this thing heads offshore:

Looks like a classic heavy rain threat for anyone in CTP, PHI or BGM service area. Probably going to see some spot hit 7"+ of rain over the course of next week. Even with the recent dry spell that will cause flooding concerns.

We dumped Cable TV years ago and haven't looked back. What I am looking for however, is a company that could install a decent TV antenna on our house.

The trend with the Euro is to hold the heavy rain (4"+ into PA, NJ and NY). I fully expect the GFS and other guidance to trend that way.