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  1. Hank Scorpio
    Agreed, excellent sunset. Portions had an appearance almost like ripped paper, or like fire had just started to burn through a piece of paper. Were these the elusive lacunosus clouds? I'd never seen them before
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    First flakes of the year coming down now in Leesburg at a balmy 37 degrees
  3. Hank Scorpio
    Yeah! Seeing the spikes show up was so cool. Also amazing how much more color the phone camera will pick up...probably was only 5% as colorful with the naked eye.
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    Its about to head over the mountain. Wonder if it'll lift at all because of terrain and then plant again once it's on the other side of the river
  5. Hank Scorpio
    Everything yesterday and today has been just barely missing me to the north and west. There's a pws just half a mile to my west that's sitting at .25" so far today while I'm at 0.04". Crazy to continually be right on the edge of the convection. At least I'm hearing some good thunder!
  6. Hank Scorpio
    I finally put up a tempest over the weekend and it's showing 94.5 here in Leesburg. Likely will move it in a few weeks so that it's sitting a bit higher and a bit further from the house. Nice to have a weather station up and running though.
  7. Hank Scorpio
    No warning or anything on that storm in Poolesville, but it's starting to look interesting on radar with a bit of rotation ETA, got severe warned right after I posted
  8. Hank Scorpio
    Interesting, thank you for sharing. Since the start time of the Poolesville tornado was listed as 7:01, I went back and looked at the pictures and video I took again. Last picture before I headed home was taken at 7:01, and I think I can just barely make out the funnel. I was in Leesburg, a little over 7 miles away though, so things were looking a little grainy. I think I may have also caught a funnel as it was trying to produce at 6:59 in this timelapse. https://imgur.com/a/2mc4MH4
  9. Hank Scorpio
    Noooo! My yard was ground zero for them last year and they did a real number on my little birch tree. Guess we'll find out soon if the grub control I spread in the yard was able to make an impact on the larvae and grubs. Only use the trap/bag things if you've got a spot way far off from any plants you wanna keep alive. They work great to attract the beetles, but ultimately they work so well that you end up attracting beetles from the entire neighborhood into your yard. Also, a trap full of dead beetles smells horrendous.
  10. Hank Scorpio
    I went and checked out the damage path from the Wednesday tornado north of Leesburg. It took a route right through a neighborhood, but thankfully all of the damage I could see was limited to trees. Obvious damage in a couple of spots right next to the road, but there were some bigger trees down back way behind houses. Two things I found particularly interesting, first that it touched down almost immediately after getting over the catoctins. They aren't very high in that spot, but I do wonder if the terrain had any impact on timing. And second, how fast that thing must have been moving. NWS said it was only on unit ground for a minute, but the damage path was pretty darn long still. I also went back and looked at the pictures I took on Wednesday and then compared them to the radar loop, and what I was seeing makes a lot more sense now. The tornado north of Leesburg lifted just as I started taking pictures. And so what I was focused on instead was the new rotation that was just beginning and was what eventually produced the long track tornado that moved through Montgomery county.
  11. Hank Scorpio
    This site is a great resource for historical tornado tracks by state: https://data.newsleader.com/tornado-archive/maryland/ I've spent way too much time on that site. Obviously a low sample size, but it does seem like a lot of the longer track tornadoes in that area are more west -> east based.
  12. Hank Scorpio
    https://x.com/_FordR/status/1798493804963708978?s=19 This was my view of the rotation as it moved across Loudoun but before it hopped the Potomac
  13. Hank Scorpio
    I had a great sight line on the rotating meso as it moved across northern Loudoun. Was definitely rotating but I never saw it put anything down. Could have certainly been just out of my view though!
  14. Hank Scorpio
    And the location named in that tweet lines up pretty darn close to the best frame in the velocity scan from last night
  15. Hank Scorpio
    This frame was interesting too...seemed to tighten up for just a minute
  16. Hank Scorpio
    Interesting...tornado warning on that little line coming out of MD into WV. Doesn't look like a ton of rotation on radar, but doesn't take much sometimes
  17. Hank Scorpio
    Got massively lucky where I am in Texas. A big blobby low cloud moved in 10 minutes from totality but got out of the way with 1 minute to spare. Stole this from my brother, so cool to see the activity shooting up off the surface of the sun. Incredible stuff.
  18. Hank Scorpio
    I've never rooted harder for Canada haha. Is it the strength of the low or the position that's causing such a drastic difference in cloud cover forecast from the RGEM?
  19. Hank Scorpio
    Same. Glanced outside, happened to see a flash of lightning, and had to check radar to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. Sure does seem like we've had a lot more lightning and thunder so far this year as compared to a typical spring.
  20. Hank Scorpio
    This map will let you click anywhere and the little popup will tell you exactly how long totality will last in your location: https://nso.edu/for-public/eclipse-map-2024/ I'm taking my family to Texas for the same reason as many others...seemed like the best chance for sunny weather. We should be looking at about 3.5 minutes of totality in our location which will be a lot of fun. I was in upstate SC for the 2017 eclipse and traffic afterwards was a nightmare. I learned my lesson though and booked a spot right in the path this time, so no travel the day of will be required. Can't wait
  21. Hank Scorpio
    There's a little spot on the side of Sycolin Rd between leesburg and broadlands that was situated perfectly to build a massive drift after the second January snow. I've been keeping my eye on it and looks like it'll finally disappear today. 3 weeks of snow on the ground in that one spot...impressive. Also, I don't know if I've already started to adjust to warmer temps but the breeze today made 42° feel so cold.
  22. Hank Scorpio
    Got the whole family out sledding before the sun went down. Great way to wrap up the outside portion of a snowy day
  23. Hank Scorpio
    Streamer band was fun as it came through leesburg! Shoveled the driveway right before and it looks like that band added a quick 1/4"
  24. Hank Scorpio
    For no particular reason, I think I'll post this picture I took over the summer of the giant gas flare off tower they installed in Georgetown. Sure was a surprise they allowed it to be built there
  25. Hank Scorpio
    Shreve mill Rd just south of leesburg is closed due to flooding. Not too surprising, since that spot probably floods 5 times a year. Just down the road, goose creek was just about at the top of its banks. Guessing that'll overflow soon, but as far as I know it won't threaten any roads in the area. Still impressive to see how far it's come up in a relatively short amount of time today.
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