SnowenOutThere

On 9/10/2025 at 10:34 PM, Rhino16 said:

Did it happen to be somewhat of a squall event type thing? I have images of a snow squall chase on the 21st of November, but that’s down on a mountaintop near Blacksburg, VA.

It was November 22nd and a more typical storm. Snow mixed in around nova for an hour or two before rain, I think the only places with real accumulations was Mount PSU (4in I think) and the catoctins (where I went ~6in). 

Found this research study (The Elevation-Dependence of Snowfall in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania) examining the impacts on elevation dependence snowfall and the types of conditions that influence events to either be low in snowfall range with elevation or high. Definitely found it to be an interesting read and I'm sure the mets (and @psuhoffman) would enjoy it too. Here is the link (http://nwafiles.nwas.org/jom/articles/2017/2017-JOM8/2017-JOM8.pdf), also if any met would like to chime in I remember a particularly elevation dependent snowfall in late November last year and wonder how those conditions line up with the studies findings. 

What’s up with all the radar returns going on right now? I know birds and other animals can cause reflections but I’ve never seen widespread yellow reflections from that.

2 hours ago, IronTy said:

Temps

2 hours ago, IronTy said:

Snow

Seems reasonable enough

32 minutes ago, CAPE said:

59 at 830

What month is this?

Nice pfp change to welcome the season!

Has been absolutely beautiful weather for the first week of college in Charlottesville. Praying the eventual October heatwave isn’t that rough. 

1 minute ago, WxUSAF said:

I’ll going to OBX on Saturday so I’d rather not do all this

 Same… are you staying northern obx or going more south.

2 hours ago, H2O said:

what a bust here for QPF.  0.45 

I can do you one better at .23 got brutally skipped by storms twice.

I plan to head on down to the point lookout beach (right on the cheasapeak) today or tomorrow to get sunset and Milky Way pictures. Any Mets have thoughts on which day would offer a good sunset and clear sky at night?

Some fun pictures of clouds from today! Got a cool shelf cloud from the storms that moved into FFX county along with a little cap cloud on some convection and then finished with a nice sunset. 

Absolute light show visible looking northwestwards from Franklin Farm

Lots of wind associated with the backside anvil of the storms south of Reston. It’s been light rain but strong wind. Almost seems microbursty or evaporative heat driven but far less intense.

54 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Dews aren’t low enough for me but it’s 70 degrees and a clear blue sky which is a win considering the last few weeks.

It is still a little humid out but might as well be the desert southwest after the month we’ve had.

Super cool to see the cold front moving south on radar with the north blowing wind behind it. 

5 minutes ago, yoda said:

Its also throwing out a large southward moving outflow boundary on Radarscope 

It just cleared my location and it was a nice break from the heat. Rain is beginning to form which doesn’t bode well for the end of swim season parry were supposed to have…

Flash flood emergency issued northwest of DC

Today is by far the worst it has felt being on the pool deck from 7-11am. Just dreadful. Current dew point is 79.3...

The LWX forecast discussion is a very good read for the flood threat today. 

I’ve watched the same storm try to fire just north of me in Reston for the past 4 hours and it keeps failing. It seems like we’re just missing some ingredient for now. 

Now the rain is winding down with around an inch total with temps knocked way down. Hoping that the storm entering louden is able to hold together enough to cancel my meet tonight. 

26 minutes ago, George BM said:

Wow IAD just gusted up to 60kts(69 mph)!

I’m around 5 miles east of the airport and for a little bit the wind shifted to be out of the west and got pretty intense. Had to be a microburst over the airport. 

I’ve been coaching everyday this week and so far this morning is by far the worst feeling. Not looking forward to the meet tonight. 

Without power and the generator went out so having to carry buckets to prevent the basement from flooding. Can any met chime in on how much more rain/rounds of storms we may get and when?

27 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Got my first pds alert ever 

Got missed with winds less than 40 gusts. Areas both north and south got slammed. For once I am happy I didn’t get the worst of it. 

Got my first pds alert ever