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Kmlwx

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  1. Decent amount of lightning with this morning activity. My PWS lightning sensor is showing 22 strikes detected in the last hour or so.
  2. Think I saw some loaded gun type soundings when I peeked earlier. Some inhibition to deal with it seems though
  3. Decent amount of large hail analog dates showing up on SARS for the NAM/NAM nest 18z run soundings. Thur and Fri are where my attention is at the moment.
  4. NAM nest (18z) disagrees but pushes a nice line through Thur PM - decent UH signature right through the metro as well. But we all know that this far out it doesn't mean much.
  5. How dare you deb. GTFO of the subforum and go make a micro sub-forum for yourself. SO DONE WITH THIS PLACE. I GUESS I CAN'T POST BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE ARE SO SENSITIVE. *cries in corner*
  6. 12z NAM nest looked potentially fun at the end of its run for Thur night. Timing wouldn't be the best for us - but sure better than last night's event
  7. I think your timeframe is probably more accurate - takes a good pattern (potentially like we are seeing) to extend the good severe season further. I also will add that I am not downplaying those pulse-severe days. Those can certainly be the days where you get one or two rogue cells that go bonkers for a little while before gusting out and spawning a few outflow boundary storms that are less severe. Being that severe weather is pretty small scale weather...individual memories of various severe events can vary widely. A person who gets under a ridiculous (but isolated) pulse storm might remember a day as being "the worst severe storm" they ever saw...while that cell may have only produced 2-5 severe reports and is a snoozer for the rest of us. The rare 2012s, 2008s and Ivan events are the kind of ones that stick in ALL our minds as being area-wide impactors. My "gut feeling" which admittedly is worth very little says that we get 1-2 area-wide "decent to significant' severe events before our climo dies off for the summer. Prepared to be ridiculed when we fail miserably.
  8. We likely still have a few more weeks before we get into the climo period of the year when things shift over to high CAPE and extremely meager shear days. June is still meaty in the sense that we can get good shear with good CAPE to overlap. Exceptions of course can exist with potent systems and of course any tropical systems can throw more wildcards in...but past early July things get much more "pulsey"
  9. Isn't this place so pleasant in the non-winter months - great discussion/analysis from everyone and none of the bickering. Refreshing!
  10. The ensembles do continue to support a pattern that could sustain NW flow-style chances into the long range. So we should still have potential severe days. I keep wondering if there are parallels to winter forecasting...this was sort of the entry to the pattern and we mostly missed. The more the pattern flexes and sustains, we should score a decent severe day or two if it really has staying power. The obvious caveats are the exact configuration of the ridge/ridge axis, energy cresting the top and coming our way, EML involvement and of course time of day (as we saw last night). Like I said about my best friend CIPS - it's pretty quiet...but am assuming it will light up from time to time if this pattern sets in and sticks.
  11. Yeah - I should have been more clear on my model solution statement - I was more referring to the fact that almost all models pushed some sort of activity through the whole area - intensity ignored and also which complex would be "ours" - just the general idea of some semblance of a big complex (even if elevated, pushing through). I woke up around 4am and was stuck at how anemic (other than N MD) everything looked. Was expecting a solid line of rain but sub-severe. I'm not sure I got any meaningful precip here in eastern MoCo. I think we all have to remember that the models have trouble with big lumbering winter storms that span hundreds of miles...why would they perform admirably in situations where small-scale storms and differences in tens of miles mean huge differences in the end result? We are a long way off from having reliably good predictions of "events" like this. I will say that I think SPC did a pretty good job - glad they didn't expand the enhanced into our area (and we were even mostly outside the slight yesterday as well). It was a good forecast. I know we all make fun of how "in the moment updating" they were in 2012...but THIS is exactly why you don't broad brush a moderate risk along the entire "potential" track of an MCS. It just isn't high enough confidence. It seemed like last night they were taking the same approach (even with the late introduction of the moderate risk) and this time their conservative forecast panned out really well. Imagine if they had painted us all in ENH or MOD only to have this end result this morning.
  12. 11z HRRR has no additional precip for the remainder of the day. The fat lady has sung.
  13. Just goes to show you that no matter how consistent the models are on something coming through - these MCS-type events are never, ever, ever a guarantee. Add to that the stable overnight hours...it came through at really the worst time for instability...this is what you get. And honestly the NAM/NAM nest are pretty much nada for the remainder of the day as well. CIPS looks as quiet as it has looked in a while through the entire run timeframe. But yes - maybe some iso severe later this week.
  14. Very much meh-worthy IMBY. Maybe the MCV can churn something up.
  15. Looks like almost all of the warnings on the complex are "considerable" wording now. Impressive. At least from short term radar trends, the more south solutions seem to be valid. But these things can change on a dime.
  16. 00z HRRR (running now) strongly favors Virginia for the morning MCS.
  17. MCSes are really hard to predict. But yes, the models seem to have the cluster I mentioned for us tomorrow AM. Would think that complex into WV will head too far south for most of us.
  18. It's a real wait and see kind of thing. Really nice storms up there in IN/OH/MI
  19. Areas south are generally more favored to be warmer/more humid simply by being farther south. Humidity and heat are pretty crucial ingredients for severe weather and storms in general. Though every event is different - the climo for storms is higher south.
  20. Cappucci thinks it misses Maryland to the south and west it seems.
  21. Biggest thing I'm watching for now is timing. It's entirely possible we start to see the arrival time moved up as the storms unfold
  22. Yep. Not even close to having the same fuel available.
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