MN Transplant

3 hours ago, 87storms said:

Today’s weather has been legendary status by April standards. Pollen is excited about it, too.

Spectacular, except this is the first day I've noticed bugs.

21 minutes ago, wxdude64 said:

How did that 0.23 manage to fall in the western VA deserts?

They got rain the day prior from the broader trough but not the low itself.

1 hour ago, frd said:

Still snowing to our North.    

 

 

 

Mostly unimpressive except for two locations and two individual events.  The early-season SE Colorado event and then the absurd Gulf Cost event.

Quite the gradient (2 day totals)

23 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

This would be a nasty snowstorm radar. I mean, I’d be happy, but lol. 

Yeah, I’m dancing on the edge right now.  0.38”

56 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Latest HRRR is more encouraging east of US 15.

12z HRRR looks great.  Even throws 0.5” back to Winchester.

44 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Look at that, another non-event for us western folks.

The problem is that this is a small low and the moisture availability is modest at best.  PWATs don’t even get close to 1”.  
 

Part of the reason why this looked like a region-wide soaker from several days back was that the two parts (wave then low) nicely hit different areas.  The wave part ended up being a dud for most of us except for up by Hagerstown.  I got a trace.

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

12z NAM appears to be less than 1.5" for everyone N&W of I-95. 

18z NAMs and HRRR look fine.  Most of us over an inch, and up to 2"+ in lucky spots.  The difference is that the HRRR centers the precip in the center and east of the DC/Balt region, while the NAMs favor spots W of 95.

Low of 30.0, which is impressive.  I didn’t think my spot had another freeze in it.  
 

Downtown DC and DCA avoided freeze, as did Annapolis.

34 this morning.  I’m skeptical of a freeze tomorrow in the warmer spots (DCA, local elevated areas), but the regular spots should get there.

The 4"+ on the Euro would be kind of fun.

37 minutes ago, Paleocene said:

Yeah, barely anything overnight but actual rain now in silver spring. Yellow pollen puddles everywhere 

The pollen puddles were unreal this morning.

About 0.4”

20 minutes ago, SLPressure said:

I have to lead an outdoor program this evening in the Mt. Vernon are of Fairfax county. With the waffling of the precipitation potential, what are thoughts on odds of steady, moderate, rain between 6 and 9 pm?

Hard to tell.  It looks mostly hit-and-miss showery until probably after your event when more sustained rain moves in.  But, of course, if you are in the "hit" area prior to that, you'll be wet.

Morning mesos don't have much for later today, pretty isolated and a better chance to the NW.  Most of our upcoming rain is going to happen behind the frontal boundary which comes through midday tomorrow.

That’s a temp trace you don’t see often

Kind of a cool effect here from my sky cam.  The first pic is the over saturated frame, and then the next frame with the lightning channel.  
 

3 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

You needed the jolt after the Twins start

Debacle.  Just completely lifeless.

0.50” and still coming down.  This was desperately needed.

This one made me jump

There we go, 80 for the third consecutive day.  Morch it is.

Another 80 and another +20 at DCA.  Going to end up between +6 and +7 on the month, so despite the wind it was a torch.

edit - and probably a record high minimum.

Making another run at 80 here.  78.3

1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

78.1.  High for the year.

First 80.

78.1.  High for the year.

Still dry.  12-month total of 30", about 15" below normal.  Lowest in my dozen year record.  2018-19 was 80" over that period!

49 minutes ago, Interstate said:

Big difference with the GFS and EURO/CMC on Saturday. Highs in the 40’s to highs in the 70/80s. 

I have a tee time mid-afternoon Saturday.  Damn near a 40 degree difference in the models.