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Seems like this line of storms started up North and moved down. DC/Arlington got them. They'll be in Dale city in an hour, lol.

Got. .65 from the first round of storms. Round 2 is here and giving me some decent rain with lightning diminished somewhat.

Rain cloud came by and dropped a quick .06" . Dropped the temps too.

1.28" overnight which (surprise!) correlates with what DCA got. Light to moderate rain. GFS nailed it. Euro had me getting around .5"

If you look out the window and the ground is moist, it probably DID rain.

In the summertime Sweet, sweet summertime...

Got woken up by thunder last night and one big boom. Sounded like I was driving by Ft Myer early in the morning pre-pandemic daze. Got .32" rain, too. It is a steambath out there now. 89 and dewpoint of 72. 2pm.

Pretty bad out in Leesburg. Worst part is that this front seems to be with us, maybe into Saturday morning. Thought it was gonna clear out by Friday afternoon. Seen this before here where a mass settles over an area and the sponge gets squeezed dumping water over an area. No wind just straight vertical rain.

Got my wake-up call from the weather gods. Picked up .59" in under an hour.

Picked up .81 in 30-45mins. Pretty good. Thunder still rolling along, too.

The DC/beltway rain dome is holding...nothing yet.

When I first got into my car, it was 104. This was the 2nd or 3rd stoplight.

Ended up getting 3.71" last night. Went to bed at about 3:30. Weird part about the this am outside is that water either ran off or was absorbed into the lawn. I have a drain right by my house whenever we get this kind of rain. Was not even running this am. Been too dry?

another cloud develops and now up to 1.65", roughly 1 hr later.

after avoiding me all afternoon/night, a nice cell dumps about .80 in 30-45mins.

No water yet, but looks like 7pm outside; not 3pm.

Substantial rain coming down in S. Arlington. Just perfectly vertical rain. No wind or anything. It's like tropical, monsoon like rain. May have picked up more than .5 inches in the last 30 minutes.

got .69" early tonight like 7 or 8pm. May get more but going to sleep.

.46 in rain since last night. One sunny day tomorrow and then back to the muck, right?

1.42 for this event last night.

The federal government is not some all-knowing monolith that is stifling all the that is great about this country. More than half of federal government spending is sending out social security checks and paying Medicare bills to health care companies/drug companies. Another quarter is defense spending. You know, to take care of all the troops we have all over the world. That last quarter is the "traditional" federal government. Stuff like national parks, immigration, NWS!, FBI, agriculture assistance, road building, etc. Did they stay home? Probably half, IDK. BTW, I would be perfectly fine if we would not build an aircraft carrier in a budget year so we could have an agency to track and intercept infectious diseases when they crop up. Kinda like what S. Korea did.

1.24" in s. arlington. Goldilocks rain: not too much; not too little.