Stormfly

17 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

yeah, that cell formed just south of balt city and moved due north between 3 and 5 - if you were not in it, nothing really fell. We got lucky in that small area. 

We were right under it, 0.69" with 1.5" /hr rates.  House shaking thunder for a good 30 minutes.  Our minpin is just about deaf and a good crash set him off in a barking frenzy just before 5AM here.

A little late to the party, but here is how the thunderstorm approached here on 04/01/2023.

Just catching up with things here, another nasty round of COVID-19 ripped through our household.
 

Some pretty squiggly looking bolts!

7 minutes ago, mappy said:

A whopping .03 at my house lol 

0.04 here.

Didn't expect much from this.  South and east cashed in as usual.

Sky looks a bit ominous to our west in Harford county.

On 4/3/2023 at 2:19 PM, Kmlwx said:

Powerful for this part of the country. Decent track length as well!

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

3 minutes ago, George BM said:

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.

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.

43 minutes ago, Amped said:

It wouldn't be a windstorm without garbage blowing around

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!

Roaring here!

Power flickering constantly here.

Going to manually switch over to backup power.  The contactors and beeping is driving me crazy!

11 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Im up in NJ at my parents house - we just got out of church and looked at the sky to the west which is dark as night - and we are now under a tornado warning. 

I see that.  Be careful!

Absolutely a nothingburger here!  Just heavy rain and a few flashes.  Got some nice bolts on high speed, very jagged and forky almost Tesla coil like.  Thunder rumbling was deep and really thought we would see severe wind but it never made it to the ground including the anemometer 70 feet AGL.

That cell in Cecil looks nasty.

Severe warned here.

Checked the PTZ and was impressed!

Raining bullets as I type this.

Breezy for a while, just getting gusts into the 30s.
Quite nice out!

Get out if you can, stay away from trees.

Lots of blue looking to the NW out my patio door right now.

Getting bright here, winds have died down considerably.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
I love the wind. Love the roar through the forest and the wind chimes going.  Which is the case right now with the southern-ish breeze.

Speaking of rarities with direction, strong winds out of the south will make the weather stripping on my front door buzz like a kazoo.  Very loudly once they hit 50 mph.  Isabel was quite the hoot, she played way past her welcome that day! Last time I heard a toot from the door was the morning of April 12, 2020. Prior to that would be Jan 25, 2010.  As you can see, rather rare indeed because the wind has to be primarily out of the south.

When I spent time at sea I always preferred a bit of rocking and rolling.  Of course when it's waves on top of waves and it's impossible to sleep and do other things that gets old fast!  As with most things we tend to get enjoyment out of there are always limits.

When the trees start cracking, skies lit up from faults, et al, then it's a bit much.  Multi day power outages are burdensome.  The diesel genny certainly eases the pain but the fuel cost is a splinter in the other foot.

Same thing with snow.  A foot even two perhaps is OK.  Anything more than that in one serving is just too much. (Yes I'm referring to Jan 23, 2016 where we had 37" here!)

21 minutes ago, RDM said:

The reference to Heathkit weather stations brings back memories.  Built my first weather station in 75, which measured 70+mph gusts during the blizzard of 78.  Hard to tell exactly how fast the wind was blowing because the anemometer was analog with a manual gust needle that measured "peek" readings.  

Yep, that would be the ID-1290 with the four dials.  No way to know peak unless you saw it.

Now we can just look at our phones LOL!

But I still like to watch the cups/blades spin on the anemometers even if it's by remote camera.

1 hour ago, VirgilCain said:

Not sure if it was the same meteorological set up, but I remember when this happened - it capsized a water taxi and killed 5 people in the harbor:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-remembering-the-baltimore-seaport-taxi-tragedy-of-2004-20170303-story.html

Yes often times conditions on the water deteriorate extremely rapidly and mariners in small craft are extremely vulnerable.  Just the other night there was an advisory for such conditions.  My Tempest that lives 70' AGL on a tower picked up some pretty strong bursts and I patrolled the PTZ across the higher spruces and they were dancing noticeably.  Would not want to be out on the water in a small ketch for sure.

13 minutes ago, George BM said:

I would ask whether it was the Nov. 20, 1989 low-dewpt derecho but I believe that may have been before your time(?)

Wow I do remember that one!

I was working graveyard shift and was awakened from my nap around dinner time by whistling winds and barking dogs.  Checked the Heathkit ID-4001 and it looked like a speedometer on the highway!  Sustained in the 40s and gusts in the upper 50s.  Lights were flickering and the sky was lighting up but knew it wasn't lightning as lighting isn't green!  That was a sneaky one for sure.

55 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

If the event ends up looking like the NAM above, we are going to see massive severe thunderstorm warning boxes accompanying that line for wind.

I've seen this happen many times before and during said gusty showers I've heard people asking "where's the lightning?"

But those sudden bursts of wind can be worrisome to downright lethal particularly to mariners.

Lots of deciduous, particularly oaks this time of the year will often become widow makers releasing a torrent of branches up to an inch or more in diameter which can cause nuisance outages in the country.

18 hours ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

The cumulus in the sky looks like July. July clouds. It's probably going to be a hot Summer. 

I hope so!

Not this mid 80s 75DP BS!

Give me mid upper 90s and 60DP any day!

Followed by a sharp cold front dropping highs into the upper 60s lower 70s for a few days with breezy conditions.  Miss those summers.

52 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

GFS is still most aggressive with Saturday's winds, with gusts well into the 50s and even some 60s.  The other models are not buying in.  The NWS point and click for me has a max gust of 47mph.

They rarely verify as true high wind warning events for our area.  I'm sure it will be breezy and the wind whiners will be whistling as usual!

Typical late March smell of freshly plowed fields here.  Definitely not smoke I can tell you that!

What boring ass weather!

^^^

We'll have wall to wall mesos and it will rain toads before that happens!