Eskimo Joe

9 minutes ago, George BM said:

That line approaching Charleston, WV means business. It has a tornado warning box the size of some of the STW boxes we get here. Lots of kinks in the line.

NWS Charleston is getting multiple reports of tornadoes so they are just warning the entire line. Makes sense.

Would place my money on Baltimore and NE having the better shot at flooding. They're quite saturated.

FYI, I wouldn't take much stock in the CAMs through 18z, given the national radar outage. They initialize pretty heavily based off radar data IIRC.

53 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Who ordered a wedge salad for tmrw? 3k nam is gross.

We do wedge well.

So, the HRRR at range for Wednesday loves Frederick, Carroll, and Baltimore counties it seems.

So we're back to a lot of rain Monday to Wednesday maybe?

2 hours ago, Kmlwx said:

I'm still not convinced DC/Baltimore will be in the game. VA seems like a better bet and even then who knows 

Agreed. This isn't our threat unless something changes big time.

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1015 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     1 NNE Belvedere Heights 39.07N  76.50W
03/30/2024  M43 mph          Anne Arundel       MD   Mesonet         
            A wind gust of 37 knots (43 MPH) was measured by a 
            Tempest station at Spriggs Pond Jetty adjacent to the 
            Chesapeake Bay.

48 minutes ago, paxpatriot said:

Some wicked thunder/lightning on the M/D right now, looks to be sinking SE-ward.

Classic elevated convection.

38 minutes ago, Kay said:

EJ, just curious are there plans to put stations in Harford, AA, Calvert, and Cecil? I am guessing so as the map says 52 (!) additional sites planned. Great project, thumbs up.

Yes there are. Every county in the state will get them. The three biggest challenges with this project are finding appropriate locations, coordinating the land use agreements with the owners, and getting good weather to prep the site and deploy the equipment. We just installed the first urban mesonet tower in Baltimore City last week and it was a tough process to get a site that had enough open space to capture the nearby environment appropriately. 

24 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

That being said - I would be happy even with a nice few claps of elevated thunder. The only way I'm okay with mosquito season is thunderstorms  - Not looking forward to sweating my butt off for months on end. 

I could stand a quiet spring to get more mesonet stations in the ground.

It's hard to be excited beyond a day or 30 hours out from the event. Unless you have some big Bermuda high set up with northwest flow, there are so many variables that can muck up severe weather this time of year.

2 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

What a washout of a week on tap starting late Sunday. 0z euro says 2-4” through the metro area.

Just give me April 4th clear so we can install a mesonet station in PG county.

Dewpoints really crashing fast behind this front. Tomorrow could be interesting.

2 hours ago, Interstate said:

You would think they could get the channel cleared for one way traffic quicker than that... I mean they should be working 24 hours a day on it.

Tides, weather, unexpected events popping up. That's a safe estimate. There's no way they're going to work at night.

I think the Orioles are good.

Sneaky wildfire risk west of I-81 this afternoon and tomorrow.

Both the HRRR and NAM nudged east overnight, and they may be a bit too far west based off recent radar and satellite trends. The surface winds on the ASOS and mesonet stations are all northwest, which would reinforce the belief the system is a bit east of the original forecast. It's probably going to be an iffy opening day, but the Orioles could get the game in.

M5.08" for the month. RSTM2 COOP.

1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

Pretty gross day.  I’d be fine if the slug of rain missed us east tomorrow.

Same. 

Yup. Mods don't care about the little guy. 

New site to bookmark as we approach hurricane season

9 hours ago, Kmlwx said:

I would think they will rebuild a bridge. Right now - that's a major way people go if they can't tolerate the tunnel (other interstate option would be all the way around the western side of 695. Obviously the decision probably won't factor in people's tunnel phobias...but I imagine due to the logistics of tunneling, they will keep it as a bridge when rebuilt. 

The bridge will be rebuilt. Hazmat can't navigate the harbor tunnel, so bulk carriers frequently used the FSK bridge. If this were converted to a tunnel, then it would cause even more of a choke point for logistical movement of hazmat commodities coming from Curtis Bay refineries and warehouses.