Even in the UHI, this is noticeable. My part of Silver Spring is a lot of hills and stream valleys, and last night we noticed this when we walked down into the Sligo Creek valley (about 200ft ASL) from our house (which is about 330ft ASL).
Parts of my backyard became little ponds pretty quick. Clean gutters were overflowing... it was dumping. But we've had much worse in the last years I've been here.
EPS and GEFS both have interesting looking waves coming off Africa towards the Antilles in the next few days. Op runs show storms that curve north and avoid CONUS. Active period coming up?
This is a good look on the Euro. . Big story - how far east or west? Shenandoah looks nuked here
Edit - pretty far west for the big dump of rain:
Last image, 48-hour QPF:
80 degrees in Canaan heights WV at about 3000 feet. Overcast moving in, maybe some rain in a bit. The stretch to get out here on US-48 was pretty desolate. Dry as a bone!
Picked this weekend intentionally to head up to the Davis/Dolly Sods/Canaan area to beat the heat. Looks like we'll do that, with temps in the 80s... but no escape the dew points from the swamps of hell. Oh well, can't complain, I'm sick of 90s!
We've eked out around 1" in my area of Silver Spring in the last 4 days. perhaps enough for me to have to mow my lawn this weekend? haven't done that since mid-june. there are browned out trees all around this area which is a rare summer sight.
What's the best place to look for local rainfall totals? I have this bookmarked but I feel like it's not the best. https://www.weather.gov/marfc/SixHourPrecip
What's a good radar estimated totals site?