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  1. Kmlwx
    CSU-MLP for wind threat now has a small purple area showing up W of the area for tomorrow.
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    *fingers crossed* - Found a really well ranked HVAC company to schedule me for today 2-4pm for the AC repair/evaluation. July 11th was the prior company.
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    It looks like the long range 6z GFS sets up a big heat dome to the west which puts us in an area that could be at risk for southward diving MCS-type things. Way too far out though for any clarity. At least something to watch if Wednesday fails.
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    That's my vote too. Honestly this house's duct work is bad too...central air barely gets to the 2nd floor. Am kind of hoping to start fresh with a new system and better ducting
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    RRFS A 12z run (at range) is solid for Wednesday PM.
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    CSU-MLP is honking for Wednesday for damaging wind. LARGE area of red on the map.
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    12z NAM nest has a heck of a bow echo going through Maryland for Wed evening.
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    I'm hoping the house can "recover" a bit today. Seems like my Midea 50-pint may be on the fritz as well. It used to drain loads of water to the bucket and now it's barely anything. Those things fail every few years though - and this one is on its 3rd year I think. Lower humidity and 80s will be welcome today. There were two rooms upstairs that were clocking in at 86-88 degrees the past few nights!
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    Let's hope so...I need some heavy thunderstorms to cool the house. Doesn't even have to be severe... Our preferred HVAC company can't come out until July 11th and the AC has essentially now stopped cooling at all. Have some other recommendations I may go with instead.
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    My money is on the NAM...if we have mid 50s dewpoints that would be downright comfortable.
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    94 at the house right now.
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    Good. Because this heat wave isn't even to its worst and I already can't stand days on days of sunny heat waves. I swore off my window AC unit last year because no matter how well it was sealed - wasps were getting in. Regretting that now...bedroom didn't drop below 80 until after 7am this morning. If it's going to be this hot - I need severe to ramp up.
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    As long as dews and temps drop to tolerable levels...
  14. Kmlwx
    Since CIPS is dead in the water (site has been down for weeks) - we only get CSU MLP. Signal for Sunday has increased again in today's guidance.
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    That being said...CSU MLP has increased the threat level a bit for Sunday -
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    For a completely un-scientific reason...I thought maybe things would turn around after that tornado day. Anecdotally we have gone on "heaters" that often start off with a major area-wide event. Weather hasn't been a hugely exciting hobby locally recently. I mean sure - there have been a few things here and there - but certainly no sustained tracking of any sort.
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    Microburst/downburst season I suppose. But yes...localized areas can absolutely get wrecked in July. I think we are still "OK" into late June - especially if we can get some NW flow action. Save for the big no-watch tornado day it's been a real quiet season locally.
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    For Friday - I'd expect our usual isolated storm/isolated severe style event. Maybe a marginal or lower end slight if we are lucky. I am very doubtful it will be any sort of widespread of heavily damaging event.
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    The other explanation is that it's just chance occurrences...the front was probably the main driver during this event. La Plata is definitely the river wind enhancement as storms cross from the Quantico area to the Maryland side. The river is a lot less wide up in western MoCo...but I'm sure there's still some microscale stuff that could be just enough for added helicity or something. I mean hell...270 is so busy that we can't even discount the actual highways adding heat to impact smaller scale wind direction and stuff. MoCo is kind of cool in that we have the Potomac on one border, huge interstate through the center, and then the Patuxent and big reservoirs on the northern border. All sorts of little interactions that might be a factor.
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    @Eskimo Joe - I think maybe it was a bit north of the one I'm going to reference - but I seem to remember that 2013 long track MoCo tornado taking a very similar path to the one the other day. I know my mom worked at Stonegate ES at the time and it went right through there. We've always mentioned the little "tornado alleys" locally. Obviously a sample size of 2 is not nearly enough - but might be inclined to add the MoCo corridor running from Poolesville east along roughly the ICC and then cutting up towards Columbia as a mini alley. The La Plata one is the most famous - definitely the river wind component. I think people have mentioned one up closer to Frederick as well?
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    Brain vomiting now...but what about some sort of meso/microscale balloon program where a mobile launcher like on a truck could carry balloon launching equipment to spots where supplemental launches are needed? Imagine getting a decent collection of sondes in a region right before a severe weather day. Example could be the normal LWX/IAD balloon, but supplemented by a launch near Westminster, Fredericksburg, somewhere out west in the mountains, over/near the bay, Southern Maryland.
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    Imagine the better data across the board if they got funding/approval for either 4x daily balloon launches at all sites and/or added more dense balloon release locations. The cost cannot be that high compared to some of the other stuff our country spends on. Somebody should sneak it into part of the defense budget...it would have benefits for the military as well for all sorts of applications. Between balloons and phased-array radars...gotta get smart with dual/multi-use of stuff like this. Weather impacts everyone and everything...
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    I am not sure I would go that far at all. They were warning the storms left and right. SPC didn't coordinate a Tornado Watch due to expected overall low coverage. However, given the risk, the smarter move could have been to issue a small watch given the major metro area. HOWEVER, flip side is that if they issued a watch and no storms formed or only weak ones...false alarm fatigue. I would hope that the warnings did their job. Wouldn't call it a "huge fail" by the weather service but that's just my two cents. Very easy to judge after the fact.
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    The answer that is likely going to come from this is going to be low spatial coverage overall. High impact because of the location it went through (major metropolitan region) - but overall coverage was why they didn't issue a watch. Whether it's right or wrong - that's the reasoning. Consider the STW just a handful of days ago when almost no storm activity occurred at all. Tough job to be an SPC/NWS forecaster.
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    There were hints of this on some runs of the NAM nest yesterday as well. I should not have written off some of the model soundings that popped on a few runs as early as yesterday. Wow.
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