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I was getting a bit worried about my well - wasn't sure how deep it is (it's not in county records), and also not sure how far down the water table is at my place. Found this good site which shows a method for measuring: https://sunshineworks.com/pages/measuring-your-static-water-level - both the water level and the depth of the well. Tried it and it worked great. Was quite relieved to find that the water level was at 68 feet, but the bottom of the well is at last 160 feet (ended up running out of fishing line before reaching the bottom).

Man I hope we get some more tonight and tomorrow night. Very disappointing with the clouds last night. fingers crossed.

Thanks. Yeah - went up to Point of Rocks and there was a fair amount.

Anyone live along the Potomac, and can report if there's ice on / in it or not? Was thinking about going up that way for Sunday drive later. Always neat to see that.

You can also get a really good deal parking at the Marriott nearby - did that for recent vacation. Shuttle runs every 30 mins IIRC. Parking much cheaper than DCA long-term. Not sure what service (booked by wife) - maybe Park N' Fly.

A bust here on SW side of Leesburg, even at 800' elevation. A white tinge on the ground, but generally rain. Oh well. Just came from a funeral service in town - at 400' car said 42 degrees; then went down to 32 degrees at 800'.

I'm up on Hogback mountain (SW of Leesburg). On Monday we got snow all afternoon (though no accumulation), whereas just 200' lower in elevation it was all rain. Never seen it so clearly demarcated like that. Will be curious if the same thing happens this weekend.

Virginia as of a few days ago: (will be getting worse)

That's a pretty cool data summary - where can I find that, if I may ask? I'm in LoCo, and indeed it's been super-dry, again, for the past month+. Thought we were going to get some relief about a month ago, but back to drought, with no significant rain in the 10-day. Not a good fall to try to plant some grass. Oh well.

Thanks!

Must be this one. https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2023/5012

Is there a good site to get water table readings? Thx.

OK - seems like then that the functionality I'm really looking for was in the WU-specific "radblast" tool? (that takes this data feed and makes the maps, adds the options, etc.) I've updated the OP to indicate.

Thanks for the tip. I find the radars on the NWS extremely klunky though. Really not much ability to customize view with pan and zoom. One of the things I liked about the old WU method was I could have a super-quick gif that was specific to my location - e.g. zoomed right in to the area just around my house, so I could tell practically down to the second when it was going to start raining from a storm. (RadarScope provides this, but only on phone, and it requires manual panning around - not a single quick click.) E.g. this was URL I used for the gif: https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=LWX&brand=wui&num=12&delay=15&type=NCR&frame=0&scale=0.125&noclutter=0&lat=39.15021336&lon=-77.48304690&label=Leesburg%2C+VA&showstorms=0&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=428&centery=280&transx=80&transy=80&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0 (lat/long changed to protect the innocent) All I had to do was tweak that as desired, and bookmark it, and it provided a great way to quickly see local hi-res radar; no app required and no web page to load other than just the one super-quick gif frame. IIRC there was a newer version that was created a couple of years ago, that provided higher resolution, and I'm guessing that has something to do with this. I'm guessing it's a licensing thing - like the people that put out the output charge more $ for it now, and WU wasn't willing to pay. Just a guess though. (Yeah I know NEXRAD was not a Wunderground thing; just that that was the one site that seemed to pipe it through directly, with the NEXRAD name).

Thanks. Downloaded. I see it has a free 5-day trial - I'll check that out next time we get some storms through (in a few days). Looks like it has some promise. Still though - it's a phone app; I'm hoping to find a web link, that I can use on PC or phone.

Query from a Wx enthusiast-but-not-professional - I brought this up last year when the NEXRAD feed showed up as "down for maintenance" on the Weather Underground site. It came back for a while but then went down again, and has been showing up as "down for maintenance" ever since then - 17 months ago. Is the NEXRAD radar radblast thing gone, as something directly-accessible on web page? I had some handy links to custom frames that pulled in the radar from the wunderground site, and loved that, but surprisingly for a popular website it's still there but still showing "down for maintenance" as of 3/2022. I bought the RadarScope app on phone - that's pretty good, though is a bit more heavyweight and klunky, and I'm not sure if is actually the nexrad radar, and it's also not as flexible in the options for display (e.g. Rain/Snow checkbox). There is a decent site done by College of DuPage as well - also a bit klunky, and seems odd that one would have to use a small college website to get to that. Might there be something on a NOAA/NWS site, or major commercial site, that has it? Thanks for any info.

OK thanks. Didn't realize that existed actually - I just have the Mid-Atlantic and SE forums bookmarked.

OK I'm a casual lurker to AmericanWx, but - what am I missing here? Why is there not a huge discussion about Idalia going on?

Speaking of that (chart two posts up) - the charts that used to be on Weather Underground site used to be *so* much better - they had the 20-minute granularity instead of the lame 1-hour granularity, and it had the dot-plots for the gusts, which were much easier to read and intuitive. Also if you scratched out the view to a week or a month, it still showed the gust data, which made it very interesting when looking back at storm events. I wish I had saved a screenshot to show - thought I did, but can't find one. Anyone know if there's any place to go to get those? Or am I stuck with manual data downloads and my own charting? TIA

Got gusts up to 54 mph yesterday -

Main surge is in Naples area - buoy: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=npsf1

Well dang - looks like they've stopped again, as of last week. Was working fine for a couple of months!

So - found out the deal - just change N0Q to NCR in the link, and voila:

(smacks forehead) OK so - the play button was just barely off the screen on the bottom - didn't see it, and the mouse scroll button didn't scroll down to it - it scrolls out not down when in that frame. If I move the mouse to the side and scroll down, it reveals the play button. Thanks.

Thanks, though the animation doesn't seem to work on that page. Tried in Chrome and Firefox. Maybe I'm missing something?