Herb@MAWS

32.8 imby at 2:00pm.

Drove Columbia =>IAD=>Columbia starting 2:15 Only took 3-3/4 hrs round-trip.

Pretty much a wet snow in Columbia, 38 IMBY. Heading out to IAD for a drop-off -- should be fun -- NOT!

And within 5 mins, mostly snow and temp 39.4

40.1 -- onset of drizzle with an isolated wet flake here and there on east side of Columbia.

29.7 IMBY at 6:30am Must go to IAD this afternoon at 3:30 == could be un-fun.

An isolated flake here and there, 36 degrees.

Distinct chill developing in the air now with N-NE low-level flow and a breeze. Late afternoon hi temp of 57 down to 44 @ 8:30.

Today’s temps IMBY east side of Columbia: Hi 27, low 17 (also the lowest for the ‘19-‘20 winter season) 22.3 currently @ 7:45 — ought to beat last night’s 17 easily I would think.

Haven't checked the stats, but it feels to me like it seems to have been that way for most of the summer, too.

Not much movement in temps past 2 days: 12/16 — 34/33 12/17 — 37/34

Temps have been rock-steady at 33 since I first checked at 6am. Rose from 33.1 to 33.8 currently.

33.1 current and low temp, on east side of Columbia. Eyeballing more than 1/2" and less than 1".

36 with flakes in Columbia at 12:15am

7:30 pm -- down to 37° in Columbia, east side. Nice temp drops, as others have reported. Skies mostly clear. The cold air arriving just in time, just ahead of the moisture .... for a change. I did notice on a live TV DC shot on (probably a cable news channel or maybe Redskins game), it looked like a few clouds were scattered around DC in late in the afternoon. For any one in DC: did those clouds clear up, or ..... ?? (trying to compute about how many more good hours in Columbia we may have for temps to keep falling before increasing clouds slow up the downward trend)

Time-sensitive but a nice blow-up of clouds early this evening just south of S-ern NC.

Columbia flurries beginning/trying to stick to car tops and deck. 34.2°

Columbia, 6:15pm: a few flurries, 34°

Some sky-brightening looking SW from Columbia.

Wow, that's pretty far away, relatively speaking.

Just wondering if my Columbia, Md. and vicinity brethren were startled around 8am Sunday, Aug 25th by a house-rattling explosion. It shook our house considerably and then it was over. Could've been anything from a transformer .... to an earthquake (just about the only house-rattling sounds I've experienced) to something crashing into the ground in the area. I went outside right after it happened and I saw some neighbors way up the street also outside, so it must've been heard in a fairly wide area, at least around east part of Columbia.

I was watching the lightning show from Columbia on Saturday evening, 9:00ish. It was flashing at a quick rate off to my W & SW, but storm traveled SE-ward toward N-ern part of DC. Nothing more here than a distant light show. Temps in MBY ranged from 78 to 96 on Saturday. Sunday morning low as of 6am is 79, pretty toasty for the 'burbs.

A little cell popped up to my south over the Fairland area on Tues evening about 8:00. Reached MBY on east side of Columbia just before 9:00. 15 mins of ground-watering rain, about 1/10". But a great lightning sky show as the storm verrrry slowly moved NE/ENE-ward from Laurel. It looked like the most intense part of the cell went over Laurel, Ft. Meade, Jessup and Savage .... and eventually MBY got clipped as a small "arm" from the cell grew NW-ward to over my 'hood from the main cell. It would not surprise me if the west side of Columbia and Ellicott City saw nada.

Best storm in years IMBY in terms of wind + rain. Started with a bit of T&L but then just pouring sheets of rain for a solid 30 minutes and quite windy for a solid 10-15 mins (it felt longer). Tropical storm-like during the 10-15 mins of strong winds. About 3/4"-1" rain. Temp dropped from 84 to 71 during storm.

I'm in Culebra, Puerto Rico (an island east of mainland) a few more days -- 75 at 7am AST, 81 in afternoons. Fresh east wind 15mph+ all day. Sunny. Probably will have a big storm since I'm missing it.