Hank Scorpio

3 hours ago, yoda said:

That storm in Loudoun looks mighty interesting 

I don't have great visuals to share, but in person it looked mighty interesting too. Lots and lots of motion all over the place

The storm moving across northern Loudoun right now looks awesome. Lots of lightning though, so I got outta my viewing spot pretty quickly

2 hours ago, Mrs.J said:

So wanted to check into the rain and lack of rain here. 

May 2025 monthly total was 10.04"

June 2025 monthly total was 5.36"

July 2025 to date total is 1.03” 

July last year the monthly total was 1.25” and then August I had 7.67”. I have currently started noticing the tree line behind my house and some leaves are turning yellow. So even with all that rain we got in May the lack of a decent deluge between June 28th and today is showing. I am hoping that the rest of July we at least get something and that August ramps back up again. Mind you this is in my area in SW Frederick Co. I know just recently the NE side of the county had that day where a cell sat and just dumped rain. But the measurable rain in my area is really lacking. 

Very similar story a handful of miles to your south in Leesburg.

9.42" in May

3.17" in June

1.34" so far in July

I know it'll turn around at some point, but it's been wild watching almost every storm blow up to our south and east over the past month. Even stuff that's looked good on approach from the west has died just before arriving and then ramped back up to my east.

Can't seem to buy a drop in Leesburg. We've seen 0.03" today. That makes for a total of 0.44" over the past two weeks.

I'm sure it'll balance out eventually though.

That cell in WV is looking really explosive...bubbling up like crazy

Just now, yoda said:

Both of them looking to be hooking... wouldn't be surprised to see TWs shortly 

Yep, good call

28 minutes ago, Ji said:

In Loudoun…if someone tears up on a field they close it. Zero effort

Yep, exactly. Last month they kicked my son's team off the field in the middle of a game. Apparently the decision to close the park happened late. Instead of just letting the little kids finish their soccer game, they insisted everyone leave the field immediately.

Oooof, 89 with a heat index of 95 according to my tempest.

Feels every bit that hot if you sit outside for a few minutes, too.

Little mini train setting up for those of us in Leesburg. Nothing compared to what's hitting the western part of the state, but padding stats for sure.

Up to 1.4" today and closing in on 5" for the month.

Picked up .33 in about 10 minutes from the edge of that cell that worked it's way through the middle of Loudoun.

Also looks like a house a couple of streets over got struck by lightning

1.5 yesterday and 1.03 today. Guessing that was my heaviest rain of the year that fell yesterday, since the 1.5 inches fell over a combined 162 minutes.

Also kinda crazy that I received about 25% of my yearly rain total over a span of 18 hours these past two days.

45 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

Dang. Haven't seen a hail signature like that in quite some time...

Wow, yeah, I think that spike coming off the cell at the 4 o clock position is a classic indicator of very large hail. 

Nice little storm moving through Loudoun. Bit of wind, some pea sized hail, heavy rain, and a few claps of thunder. 

Hopefully just the start of a stormy stretch for the area.

46 minutes ago, mdhokie said:

Add in 9am - 1pm Saturday. My kids have had 3 softball rain outs in the first two weeks. 

Yep, same for us with the soccer season. This will be week 5 and they've played 1 game.

Maybe the whole thing will keep slowing down and it'll stay dry until the evening. After that, bring on the deluge.

Beautiful out there this evening. The winds have died down and it feels perfect if you're out in the sun.

62° under clear skies currently.

2 hours ago, midatlanticweather said:

Crazy amounts of dust caused mud spots on cars this morning. 

Was just out on my deck and thinking it was way too early for so much pollen to be showing up. Now I know, it's all southwestern dust! Interesting, and annoying to clean off furniture out there haha

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Don't sleep on setups like this. We had a marginal risk for severe weather in February just before covid kicked off that yielded numerous wind reports and several tornadoes after just an hour or two of sun:

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20200207

Lots of damage photos on X from that day:

https://x.com/search?q=Leesburg tornado until%3A2020-02-10 since%3A2020-02-07&src=typed_query

3 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Here’s my final forecast. That’s it. I’m not saying another damn thing about it until 0z. 
 

ETA—apologies to everyone not in the purple.  My crayon ran dry.

Damn, fringed in Leesburg. Guess I could chase to Sterling...

1 hour ago, Wetbulbs88 said:

I spoke to him on the phone once when I was in college and considering meteorology. I'd reached out to the station requesting a conversation. He probably thought I was a special individual. I was a little starstruck and kind of blew my shot. Not sure what I wanted to get out of it anyway. Maybe more snow? 

When I was a kid, I emailed him what was a very basic weather question after seeing rain change to snow. Must have been shortly after we got access to the internet, so maybe 1997? He was nice enough to reply in detail, and that's how I learned about wet bulb, dew point, and evaporative cooling.

I had to come to the weather message boards to learn about storms making their own cold air though.

3 minutes ago, H2O said:

The darkness has let my temp drop from 44 to 34.  Behold the power of the darkness

Just don't forget to sweep your darkness board! My temp instantly dropped 2.2° once I remembered to sweep mine

Gotta love when you get instant street stickage. Nice light snow right now, would be prefect if this kept up all night long.

For some reason my tempest station is reporting a temperature of 36. Every other nearby tempest is sitting under 32, with a bunch reading 31.6

Guess I'd better find a better place to mount it. Only thing I can think is that it's picking up a bunch of heat radiating off my house.

Been lucky here in Leesburg with that band of moderate to heavy snow training over the area. Looks like an additional 1.5 inches or so from that...pretty fluffy stuff.

Nice to see instant stickage when the flakes finally started to fall.

Also great to see some yellows already marching steadily north into Loudoun.

Sleds and shovels have been moved out of storage and into the garage. Do I make my kids shovel before we go sledding in the morning or just get on the hills immediately?