Paleocene

HEAVY rain in the band ripping through DC right now.

Some more consistent rain in the last hour or so in my neck of the woods (northern inside the 495 beltway world).

Looks like a heavy but fast moving band is about to roll through silver spring, sprinkles have begun.

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?

Dry so far in Silver Spring but the skies have darkened after clearing around 12pm.

The always exactly 100% correct 12z NAM:

Breeze and some clouds making it slightly less awful today

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:

Nice (dry) evening at Dolly Sods. 70 ish

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!

Five minute shower in silver spring, maybe a tenth?

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.

This cell just dumped on silver spring for ten minutes. Headed NE. And a show at the end!

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?

On and off moderate to heavy rain since about 1pm here in Silver Spring.

Yeah, HRRR and 3k NAM look pretty weak for beltway-area DC :-(

Solar panels versus AC units... guess who will win today

Felt significantly muggier and grosser this morning during my 7am walk, probably because we got maybe 0.25" last night in the storm. Gonna run for 100+ for sure

Decent 15 minute or so rain, wind, and downpour ish in downtown silver spring. Enough to create some puddles in my very beat up old asphalt driveway.

My neighbor is mowing his lawn

Wasn't so bad at about 80 degrees with a light breeze at 730AM for a shady morning run in a local park. Several trees in the park that were planted in 2021 have totally browned out though :-(

Back home after 3 weeks in New England. Torched/blasted/cooked/fried/baked/smoked around here. But the crepe myrtles look nice.

We're at a privately owned/rented cabin that is off a side road which connects to Lily Bay road. Closer to Greenville. There was heavy rain overnight but nothing biblical. We have not ventured out yet but I will be surprised if there is road damage.

Not to gloat (jk I'm gloating) but I've been very glad to be in New England since June 24. We're not looking forward to coming back to the intense heat Sunday. Hope you all are hanging in there. Up here in Maine, "hot" days means mid 80s. Overheard some locals talking today about how the heat they're experiencing now doesn't usually come until August. I was on the Maine coast but now I'm way inland in the highlands on the shore of Moosehead lake. A gorgeous place and absolutely worth the trek. We've never been here but will be back. Pictured: Mt. Kineo from the shore and the view from the top. Flood watch tonight for the remnants of the hurricane... Hoping our gravel road washes out and we're stuck at this cabin!