SnowenOutThere

16 minutes ago, Sportybx said:

What would cause the Hurricane hunters not being able to fly through the eye wall last night , saying it was too dangerous?!? 

Aliens 

Just had the most intense thunderstorm of the season come through, heavy rain/wind with a pretty good amount of hail.

Best severe weather day of the season with the latest storm, got a decent amount of pea size hail and some pretty intense gusts with it. Think it was a somewhat localized microburst overhead, either way the rain was needed. 

12 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

Imagine being in Reston and watching a wall of water a couple miles to your west on consecutive days.

As someone who lives 3 miles from Dulles airport and has gotten 0.00 inches of rain for the month it’s been a pretty disappointing but very loud couple of days. 

10 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Easily. Unreal. 

It looked like this just last night, insane how much its strengthened in a day.

42 minutes ago, MANDA said:

As well as every climate alarmist.

If it happens is it really alarmist to point out that it’s strength is at least partially based on the anomalous warm ssts it’s using?

6 minutes ago, WxSynopsisDavid said:

That link is for TS Franklin, not TS Idalia.

I’m aware but same principle for both. Franklin was just a good recent example.

For something more on topic I wonder if the recent convective blowup over the core could be an actual indicator of strengthening or just arrested development. Heres a tweet and link to an article on arrested development. IF this isnt arrested development then things could get pretty interesting tonight

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/127/1/1520-0493_1999_127_0132_atcwae_2.0.co_2.xml

11 minutes ago, Prospero said:

Nice sunset right now on Cozumel:

 

Sorta off topic but that is an amazing sunset on the live stream right now. 

18 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Look at that pressure fall. These quick spin ups are always fascinating. 

 

Imagine if it had more time over water, we are going to pay for all of those underwater volcanos building those ssts.

11 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

If it snows a lot I get to enjoy the winter. If it’s another torch snowless winter the “it’s not actually snowing less, your eyes don’t work and you can’t math” crew have to shut up. Win either way. 

I would honestly take a failure of this winter if it meant the it’s actually not snowing crew  stopped posting. 

13 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

There's a reason why SPC talks about "within 25 miles".  There just aren't many events that pan out other than in very localized places.  We're seeing it here with Westminster and others.  In Fairfax County, we are going to see a small stripe of damage from Manassas to the east, but nothing else.  I also gusted in the 20s and the rain is actually not impressive for how the radar looks.  Big drop bias.

Thought today would be a little more like one of those rare less localized events with the moderate risk but it still probably verified for MD and can’t really complain about not losing power.

Got a max wind gust of … 14.8 mph so uh that counts for something. 

Was at the pool from around 3:30-4:15 and could see how dynamic the atmosphere is as clouds started to build up, its go time. 

Just set up an actual ambient weather station yesterday and its apparent how partial clearing is already starting to hike up instability

9 minutes ago, yoda said:

 

 

Just watched the cells over Reston and chantilly pop up as the outflow crossed over. Unfortunately it also canceled the swim lesson I was giving with a crack of thunder.  

Have been under the tip of the cell over Reston for the past 50 minutes, lots of thunder and tropical rain rates but blue sky has been visible to my south for half of the time it’s been raining. It also finally gusted out a bit so it’s probably going to die somewhat soon unless it redevelops again. 

57 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

New towers shot up past IAD pretty quick.

Drone pictures of storms firing west of IAD. 

New towers shot up past IAD pretty quick.

Clouds have broken and the sun has been out for a bit in fairfax.

And I’ll be driving right into them coming back from a trip do it’s gonna be a fun time 

Just now, yoda said:

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings coming out quickly for the storms firing out west

Looks like a bit of rotation on those cells too. 

18 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Personally, as much a time-suck year-round club swimming could be, it was all worth it for the more "casual" summer swim season

Cannot wait for him to discover high school swim season, its honestly the highlight of both my school year and year in general. It combines the team building of summer with the competition of club and takes the best aspects of both.