Stormfly

Stupid ass wind, going to make putting up inflatables a PIA for sure!

Good!  Especially western Europe with the current events happening.

3 hours ago, Weather Will said:

I alway consider November 11 the period where we can start watching for snow….took 4 hours to travel from University of MD College Park to Greenbelt that day when surprise snowstorm hit….cars were abandoned all along my route home….thunder snow fell fast and furious.  One of the most memorable storms of my life so far…

 

Also on this day in 1995 a very wicked front blew through, temps dropped from 60s to 30s.  Frequent TS gusts near 70 in many places.

1 hour ago, notvirga! said:

Hopefully it gets rid of all the leaves remaining on the trees 

Yesterday's breeze did that already here.  Even the stubborn pin oaks have shed.  Hopefully Sat afternoon is dry enough for a final cleanup.

Good grief, didn't they just have major maintenance and downtime in the past year?  Bull gear replacement?

Yes better have some heads up and TBH the effects from Ian up here were more than expected.

At least it won't be raw, 35 mph wind gusts at 40F with rain showers goes right through you!  This may be similar to Christmas eve 2020.  That rain was driving almost tropical like here.

2 hours ago, mappy said:

Ava showed graphics of the wind field during her morning weather hits. I like that, make people aware that yes, it's going to be rainy but gusty too

 

Looks legit, but being Maryland I fear that Nicole will be working the drive-in Friday night serving the most popular item - nothingburgers!

Track looks good for us in NE MD for rain/wind Fri night.

Katydids' chorus sounds more like early Sept than first week of November.

48 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

What's the wind criteria for a leaf blizzard warning? 

The spruce forest to our west funnels the winds down to the ground much like what happens in cities.  The result is we wind up with legit "leafnadoes" or "leaf devils" spinning through the pasture.  The winds today are strong enough but are from the wrong direction.  They are doing a nice job of getting the leaves off the stubborn pin oaks, however.

Crazy nice, windows open fresh breeze.  Lights flickered a few min ago.  Didn't hear anything but don't have AppleTV plugged into uninterruptible recep, wife pissed because she was watching a movie.  Oh well.

8 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I’m using the heat pumps as long as possible this year. I’ll fire up the oil furnace only when it’s below 40 consistently.

Mine locks out at 32F and the burner has run a few times this season already.  The sensor is too close to ground and tends to read low, perhaps it's time to drop the temp to 25F.

7 hours ago, WeatherShak said:

I just spent 10k converting to natural gas. Figured about a third of that will hopefully be saved in the cost I would have spent on oil this winter.

Went from 70 percent efficient furnace to 96.


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I wish we could get natural gas here!  Of course where things are going it too, could be heading very high.

Next system will probably be a combination of geothermal and minisplit as I know many in the trade and can get deals that would make ROI shorter.

~30 cords here but I'm not as thrilled about heating with wood entirely as I was 40 years ago!

$5.77/gal for heating oil???!

It can stay in the mid 50s all winter long as far as I'm concerned!

Thundering in Bel air!

13 hours ago, snowfan said:

Great weather for some carrot cake.

Might as well be raining eggplant!

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

We have epic blocking setting up. Winter is gonna be lit  

Can't wait for 33 and rain to wash away six inches of sleet while there are three loaves of carrot cake baking on top of the woodstove!

1 hour ago, mappy said:

Realistic rainfall amounts? Landscapers did a poor job reconfiguring draining off our house and until it’s fixed we have a basement to keep an eye on

Do you have a good sump pump?

Short pump getting pumped!

Love the tranquility once the bad weather is far east of us!

1 hour ago, 09-10 analogy said:

Yeah I worded that poorly; Ivan spawned 40 tornadoes in VA. At least according to St. Wiki. 

Irene was every bit the storm Isabel was in my neck of the woods, as I recall. But I don't think its effects along the Bay, for instance, were like Isabel's. 

Same here.  Not a fan of night time tropical.  At least Sandy, well most of it, was during daylight hours.

Isaias will only be a memory for us because a power fault set the asphalt on fire a mere few feet from my work truck and I had to break out the CO2 extinguisher after the power was cut even in the rain!

Oh and a junk tree into a 13kV overhead dumping a phase down the road.  Breezy rain.  Nothing compared to Isabel or Irene.  Isabel had some serious sustained winds, front door weatherstripping playing the kazoo all night long!

2 hours ago, Weather Will said:

Brief shower about 1:30 but squall line approaching.

heavy rain now but no wind.  Lame severe thunderstorm.

Def no severe even though we were warned.  Nice rolling thunder and heavy rain.  Quite soothing while watching football.  I'm OK with it.

8 minutes ago, arlwx said:

LWX radio just declared a severe thunderstorm watch.

 

Yep, until 1800 for us.

Could be some hailers too.  Fall storms usually don't give us golf balls (thank goodness!) but peas and corn! 

Blue Jays and Crows quarreling this AM is maddening!