George BM

Helicopter leaf showers.

0.02" for a weekend total at IAD.

1 hour ago, MillvilleWx said:

Hey everyone! I have some pretty awesome news which will hopefully blossom into life changing news in the future...

I have an interview with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park to become a Forecaster on the QPF/Winter side of the house. The interview is April 25th. I am beyond excited to even have the opportunity to interview, so very grateful. 

I will keep everyone in the loop, but I could use your thoughts and prayers as this would be a major career move for me, and I'd be home again 

Fingers crossed! 

Wishing you the very best of luck on your interview!

1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

 

The temperature hit 93F at IAD that day. The earliest 90F day there.

2 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

we are nearing full leaf-out in NW DC in the 2nd week of April wtf

Leaf-out progress in my neighborhood appears to be where it was at the end of April/beginning of May 2020.

IAD tying the record of 87F so far.

3 hours ago, George BM said:

Wow. IAD was at 47F. Cold spots are going to experience quite the temperature leap this morning. 

Could potentially be a 40+F spread at IAD today.

Yeah. IAD with a causal 31F jump to 78F in 3 1/2 hours.

Don't roll your eyes at me TOO hard mattie g. Preserve your sight. 

2 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Holy inversion.  My low was 60.8.  I can feel the temperature dramatically changing on the morning dog walk.

Wow. IAD was at 47F. Cold spots are going to experience quite the temperature leap this morning. 

Could potentially be a 40+F spread at IAD today.

9 minutes ago, WiskWind said:

Just saw this strange radar loop for Jacksonville. Precipitation is moving both onshore and off. There is no low pressure in the area, at least according to the latest surface map. Source of radar loop is the MyRadar app, which claims it gets its data directly from radar sites. 
 

Radar loop

What you're seeing is low-topped convection under 10,000ft blowing from east to west in the easterly winds w/ precip in the higher levels of the atmosphere being blown from west to east in the mid/upper level westerlies. There is precip at many levels of the atmosphere because the surface to the upper-levels are moist enough to support it. That's a rough explaination of what's going on. Someone else can probably explain it in better detail than me. 

Let the April traces commence!

 Severe Thunderstorm warning for the N VA/ DC storm.

Just had a nice gusty downpour here in Herndon. Little/no lightning.

Severe thunderstorm Watch coming out east of the Blue Ridge. My NOAA weather radio alerted me before Yoda. 

8 minutes ago, Stormfly said:

Yes it is!
I had a call out that way a month ago.  Very flat area.

Indeed.

Also, the violent tornado on June 25, 2023 was the first in the immediate region since La Plata.

IAD up to 88F now.

11 minutes ago, George BM said:

IAD has tied todays record of 86F.

Aaaaaaaaaaand it's broken at 87F.

IAD has tied todays record of 86F.

Those dastardly grass-measuring slant sticking rookies. 

34 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Of interest only to me, but I thought I would share anyway.  This is a catalog of every 40mph+ gust that my weather station in Falls Church has recorded, with comparisons to IAD/DCA.  I have a pretty good mounting location above my roofline, but we are surrounded by 100' oaks so it does read low, especially after leaf-out.  Still bummed that I lost power in two of the bigger region-wide events (derecho and Mar. 2018).  As a note, the DCA/IAD readings are based on the hourly METARs and not the peak wind column, so that's why you see the lower numbers for the 4/1 event.  But in ensures consistency going backward.

The localized downburst in August 2021 caused much more damage in my neighborhood than any other event in the past decade-plus, derecho included.

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing!

Note: I'm assuming you're using a different criteria for comparing your max gusts with the airports as I know you know IAD gusted up to 68mph on 4/01/2023 with a 71mph gust on 3/02/2018? DCA gusting up to 62mph 3/02/2018.

7 hours ago, Stormfly said:

I lost a section of pool fence in 2008 due to wind.  Posts were rotted enough to snap off, bam!  About 40' of fence on the ground.

Yikes. Luckily for me it was only a 15-20 foot section of fence lost.

The strength of the wind gusts tonight probably tied March 2018 intensity-wise... legit.

2 minutes ago, Stormfly said:

The last wind event we had I was driving up a hill and a big gust rolled over what looked like a 96 gallon bin at the end of a driveway.  It had to have been filled to the brim with those foam peanuts because they got picked up and for a second it looked like a mini blizzard, snow globe style!  A guy across the road was grabbing his bin and just shook his head.

We definitely heard a tree fall around 2055 or so.  It was roaring and I checked and can't see but I'm in no hurry to walk around 100' trees to look for it!  Widowmaker danger in full force tonight!

Was in the kitchen cooking dinner listening to the vicious winds outside when I felt a small vibration in the ground accompanied by a thud like something had fallen. I went into my back and sure enough part of the fence has fallen.

IAD with a 52kt(60mph) gust.

Just now, high risk said:

confirmed TOR on that Delaware cell

With a debris ball.

1 minute ago, midatlanticweather said:

And- We got a warning!

There's definitely a tornado on the ground with that.