Stormfly

When I saw news of the earthquake I instantly thought of the one in 2011 which was a 5.9 in Mineral VA.  We certainly DID feel that one!

Today's temblor southeast of Sparta was shallow and while most say the shaking lasted about 15 seconds or so wasn't present here in northern MD.  We have vibration sensors that would definitely register anything that I could feel and don't see anything logged around 0807 today.

I'm not a fan of something that can literally take out your home with no warning whatsoever.  Even though we don't expect these things, 2011 was a perfect example.  And just two days later we were tracking Irene which was a high impact event.  Unlike the weather which we can prepare for, seismic provides no such warning.

35 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

Amazing.  Imagine what that looked like coming down.  I remember hearing about the unbelievable rain that Maria dropped in this town in Puerto Rico, including 40 inches in 24 hours.

Hurricane Maria dropped 14 inches in one hour on Caguas, Puerto Rico

Yes I can!

I had an emergency due to severe flooding on July 14, 2000. This was just east of Baltimore.

The home's sump pump was overwhelmed (later found out it was due to "monkey balls" from those sycamore trees!)  In any case I was standing in ankle deep water in a large pit rigging a gas powered pump (3") to get rid of this water when out of nowhere I started getting pelted with spiky ping pong ball sized hail!  Man those hurt!  And the wind kicked up and their privacy fence was waving like a flag.  Thought that was it.  We got like 8" of rain in 45 minutes.  TINY cell right over our neighborhood.  My adrenaline was pumping almost as hard as that Hale pump!

Picked up another 1.6" in about 30 min here.
Roads that normally don't flood are flooded out.
EAS signal TWICE for FLOOD WARNING.

This is no joke if you're under these cells!

22 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said:

We call ourselves people here  But seriously sir, getting a thrill out of extreme weather is probably much more common here than elsewhere, I'll bet!

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!

12 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Reposting here. Enjoy  

As promised. Turn the volume up and play it in HD. Enjoy. 

This is tropical

 

Love the whistling wind sound.  Especially in overhead cables!

Security camera audio is awesome to listen to in evacuated office buildings when storms hit.  And the systems are well protected long after the power goes out.  And rarely does the cloud go down!

I do remember one client whom shall remain nameless, that had a lot of stuff in their datacenter go down in Sandy.  Their emergency diesel generators (EDG) were on the penthouse level (roof) so no worries about high water BUT the 20,000 gallon diesel tanks AND pumps were in the basement.  When the basement has 7' of water all that fuel is useless and the 300 gallon reserve on the roof didn't last very long.  Oops!  Fortunately they did have mirror DCs in Texas and San Francisco.

Nice red sky this AM!

.20 in so far.

Most exciting thing to happen was a backup feeder (7.2kV) faulted under our parking pad and shot fire out of an expansion joint.  Even though it was raining, the grass was on fire and I had to grab a CO2 extinguisher to put it out!  Not every day you see pink flames shooting (briefly) out of the ground! 

The bummer is that side did something to a 400A xfer switch and the main standby genny is offline.  So now the power probably WILL go out!

Another bucket of nothing today.

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:

Just now, Baltimorewx said:

I don’t know how accurate but Martin St airport in East Baltimore county is reporting a dew point of 81 making for a heat index of 106 on a 88 temp. It does feel more soupy out over the last hour or so 

Would not be surprised.  It's a sultry mess out there right now. Can we just skip to October already?

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.

1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

How miserable will it get if there is a major second wave (assuming we ever finish the 1st) in the fall/winter, the football season gets stopped, Thanksgiving then Christmas pretty much are ruined, and the long range guidance is correct and we get another non winter with no snow...because jokes aside all those events are probably odds on favorites to happen right now. 

Ever see that (ridiculous) movie Click?  Yeah the one with the remote control!  Well this pandemic would be a bona-fide event to use the skip button on!

1 hour ago, BlizzardNole said:

I did not hear a thing either.  Is there a way to look back at radar for several hours?

Radarscope archives for 30 days on Pro tier 2.

I got a lightning alert around 0340 and was surprised and saw action well to our south.  Caught a few flashes on the tower PTZ, pretty meh TBH.  But soaking rain for those under them!

High risk of bust here.

1 hour ago, poolz1 said:

Already 86 here...classic summer day on tap.  Already sweating just walking around the yard with my coffee.  Garden is loving the weather here recently....plenty of moisture, warm humid days and lots of sun.

Ugh!  This is NOT the weather to be using a clearing saw on the tree line.

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.

Over the hill!
Tomorrow will be three seconds shorter (yes shorter!) than today!

The journey has begun.

Little rain here, we're in a hole.  Picked up 0.291" in the past 24.

Some rumbles and CG strikes within the warn radius.  Had to close up and turn on AC due to increased dews.  I'd much rather have PC last week with mid 50 dews and breeze.  Got some tree line work done without drowning in perspiration!  Now it's feeling too tropical for us.

What a strange weather pattern we're in!

3 minutes ago, WeatherLovingDoc said:

Two years ago this June, we had a huge unstable storm. I still remember yelling out to my kids and their friends to "come in now" and they poured in. Before I knew it, our downstairs was filled up with high schoolers and early college students.

I want to leave you with one pertinent fact: after the deluge, while they were getting restless to leave and I said please not yet, there was a horrific lightning flash and boom that took down a tree next door. Always, always wait and check your local radar and weather people before dismissing. I am thankful to this day I stood my ground and when they heard that boom, the rooms went silent and they learned too. Kids!! I love em.

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.

First rumble heard inside here.  When lightning is detected within 20 miles of the sensor it points the PTZ in the direction and it's active.  Seeing nice flashes and can make the outline of the cb cloud nicely.

Ok who reported that? :-D

10 hours ago, r3w said:

All clear here in Calvert, seems to be just South of us across the water. Lightning was pretty wild.

Yeah what I meant was if I was outside watching that lightning and didn't have access to radarscope, I'd guess it was in Calvert!

That PTZ is about 25' off the ground on a tower.  I want to get it up higher.  It will bounce more in the wind but the view will be worth it.  It that point I should clear the trees and see TV hill.  Back in the 80s when these trees were either saplings or non existent we could see TV hill tower strobes at night just standing in the driveway.

And the video: