Stormfly

Going on 11 years, and 2-3 year frequency would be fine. I know I'm about 500 miles too far south and east but still... It's been nearly 27 years since we had ice over snow so thick it could be driven on... Those are fun, countless hours of donuts @WOT on the four wheelers without risk of dying (most winters ponds freeze solid but only a handful get thick enough to assure breakthrough risk is nearly non existent).

Anyone recall October 01, 1986? I spent that day moving radio transmitter hardware from Severn MD to White Hall, it was near 90°F and could feel the change coming by dinner time. Nice line of storms rolled through. Power knocked out and tower for our 2M repeater in Phoenix took a hit. Next day was cooler thank goodness. Also, two years ago to this day we had nice storms roll through. A close hit to an overhead across the street knocked out power momentarily and the thunder set off a howling wolf on our porch.

Surprises are the best. A redux of 2010, OTOH, as much as I didn't enjoy plowing that much snow off the lane, I have to say I could go for that! This is one of my favorite shots. I took this looking back up towards the house after making a few passes. The piles of snow were close to 14' high!

82-83 would be OK with me! Cold December with snow, record Jan warmth and Blockbuster storm in Feb. Summer of '83 also featured high severe level events. Some expecting quarterly snowpack need to move. Just a few hour drive northwesterly should do. Otherwise Labrador or Longyearbyen will have to suffice!

Total bust for us as expected. Not even a quarter inch of rain. Yesterday's activity was much better. And even that was lackluster. Looking forward to possibly the best Labor Day Weekend weather in a while, however.

#eventcancel

In this region replace ironic with typical. These outlooks bust more often then winter events in this area. Which is good and bad. Bad being that (non weather) peeps are so accustomed to warnings that when a legitimate warning (and absolutely necessary action to protect life/property) occurs, no one will take it seriously. Boy meet wolf. I wouldn't be surprised if there is less activity today then yesterday. Does it mean we should let our guard down? NEVER! No doubt with soundings someone will score today, just don't expect it to be a widespread outbreak. EDIT: 10% TOR, especially our area, is nothing to sneeze at! Don't forget to wear a mask!

404, severe not found. We were in a yellow box. Torrential downpours, max wind 18 mph, some lightning and thunder. Heavy thundershower is what we call it. Tomorrow is the 3rd ENH for this area so far this year? Can you call drizzle and fog enhanced? Oh the moss is growing on three sides of our barn. Now that is definitely enhanced!

Here's my contribution! And look at that, some showers showing up now with maybe a bit of Zeus'ing going on! Speaking of fans, we do have a bigass fan, 18' in the main hangar. Had to run it nearly WOT due to humidity!

That's a lot of flyswatters!

Just got power back. It was a ridiculously weak storm to knock out power for over six hours but there it is. Another 17 gallons of diesel. Peak wind speed 42.9 mph. Meh indeed! This is probably a fire drill for what is to come tropical wise. About six minutes before power went out...

Hmmm, may actually get more than thundershower out of this! EDIT: Racquetballs in Cecil!

Figured as much. We get about two ENH a year and this is our second. All they'd have to do is move MD down to the gulf, Laura would fall apart faster than a Harbor Freight vacuum cleaner!

Typical MD "severe". The best ones come out of nowhere, lots of times we're not even marginal risk LOL.

And that's a GOOD thing! Being in a storm heading to shelter while your house is coming apart is terrifying. And going in the attic afterward and it looks like you have a dozen skylights but they are holes from giant hail... Granted I was 12 when that happened but I remember it well. All the insurance adjusters, contractors, et al. And my parents complaining about higher insurance premiums! Now they live in FL and (still) complain when it goes up. LOL In these parts it seems we do get legit severe but you have to be in the bullseye.

Did someone say Jonas? I enjoyed that storm, earliest lock in memory and it just snowed its ass off! I'd rank it only behind 1996 because of the second storm after that overperformed. Of course overall, best winter by far was 09-10. Just don't see that around this area. Have to head up to the lakes for that.

This expected warmth and expectation of a snow less winter may be just what snow lovers want. After all, it seems when we expect the worst (or the best) the exact opposite occurs. In any case, our plows and blowers are always ready for whatever may come this way.

Another 1995 or 2005 with record US landfalls is going to make insurance go through the roof for everyone! Hopefully there won't be another China [sheetrock] syndrome!

What a great light show last night! And a soaking rain. The video below shows the lightning from the cluster over Cecil Co. and western DE. The red dot in this radarscope screen capture is where the camera is:

No SVR but 2.36", nice T&L and some breezes. Interestingly enough, yesterday's was nothing in comparison here, just .11" and two cracks of thunder but more gusty. (31 mph peak today vs. yesterday's 42 mph peak) I was driving through this around 16:45 and passed some serious streams running through the edge of fields. The ground is so dry here that those deluges unfortunately are running off instead of soaking in. The backside had a nice round of lighter rains that did give a decent soaking. 1" hail today not 1/4 mile from here. That's OK, even though 1" isn't too much prefer not to have it. Nothing tops the five minutes of tennis ball stones and 109mph gust on June 15, 1980 for us. That's real severe usually more common in the plains... So far in 2020 this has been the best round of heavier thunderstorms for us.

High risk of bust here.

All bark, no bite here as usual. I have to wonder where the actual severe weather was as we were in a yellow for nearly an hour. Barely qualifies as a thundershower. Meh

Looking a bit ominous to the west from the tower cam here!

I expect the storms to dissipate within minutes now seeing that yellow circle which we are in the middle of, pop up! Yes, another slight. As in slight push closer to the edge of (fill in the blank!) Seriously though, it looks like it could be a busy evening.

Yup, getting hammered here. Like Friday's storm, heavy rain and better lightning. Just hope no more trees get hit. Just got finished up cleaning up the mess. Balsams suck when they get hit although the smell is nice.