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  1. 09-10 analogy
    Some decent CG no wind or anything though. Pretty heavy rain ETA: Close one there!
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    Distant thunder and the western sky is gun metal color
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    Bears repeating ...
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    It's like the severe weather expy of Boxing Day. Not as traumatic, maybe, but ...
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    The 2012 derecho -- I know, it's annoying that gets brought up every time there's a severe threat, but there's a reason here -- wasn't, IIRC, supposed to be the main event. That was supposed to be the next day. Well, this is the reverse. The main event will be tomorrow for immediate metros, not today as was thought. That's sound meteorological reasoning for you there.
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    Trees do fall around here during severe weather and people have been killed. I'd WAG more people have died from straight line winds around here than from tornadoes, for instance. So it's not totally unwarranted to warn people of powerful thunderstorms ... probably has as much to do with how many trees we have (well, in NW DC at least, I'm as parochial as ever) than with the strength of the winds. Is today hype-worthy? Probably not, but we'll see. That question can only be answered in retrospect anyway. Anyway, plenty of sun right now. What I don't want is hail. Last time I went to the local auto body shop, I asked an innocuous question, and the p***k running the joint snapped at me for no discernable reason.
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    Moderate rain a hour or so ago, now nothing, but distant rolling thunder when it's cloudy, which for some reason I love. Seems like the goods might be on my doorstep but I'm used to the LWX radar and it's down and I'm not rich like the rest of you folks to be able to afford the fancy stuff. If it was a killer band of snow just off to my north and west with me getting nothing, I'd be tearing my hair out (of course I shave my head so that's kinda irrelevant) but with convection, I can still hear the thunder and like I said, distant thunder with cloudy, humid weather is a nice vibe for me.
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    Hard to get robust lapse rates and shear, and timing, all aligned together around here. But we don't get day 4 outlooked by SPC too often around here, either (not that northern parts of the sub are). EDIT: Not that it means anything, but this has been an aberrant June, what with all the tornadoes in the South (when their peak is usually well over by now) and then the tornadoes in Texas the other day. (I read somewhere that Texas hadn't had an (E)F4 after June 10th until this year, with Matador almost certainly being (E)F4 at least.)
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    Yeah looks like that one's wide left for me. Hearing the rolling thunder from it, though. Loud booms with CG close strikes are great, but sometimes just that low rumbling is soothing ... at least to me. And since it's a holiday, and cloudy and muggy out, there's not much activity -- vehicle or pedestrian -- on the streets, so it's quieter than a normal summer evening here. Relative silence a nice aural-point to the thunder.
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    Two rarities for this season today: humidity and the distant sound of thunder.
  11. 09-10 analogy
    Not good, right into the urban area. And during rush hour and holiday weekend traffic.
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    Oh I have no problem with it at all, I find them informative reading too. It just struck me as unusual. But maybe it happens more than I think.
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    There seems to be an awful lot of MDs out given there's no widespread severe outbreak going on. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/
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    An MSS (mesoscale smoke system)? I mean, it's not convection, but it's horizontal dimension seems > 50 miles, and it sure is persistent.
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    I'd say so. Even if there was some competition (which I can't think of, 2023 has to be the most boring year in recent memory up to this point), this is historically noxious air. (Even the fleeting Xmas cold wave was 2022.) Shame that's it coincided with such (otherwise) conventionally beautiful weather. This isn't exactly fun, but I'll probably remember it more than some 4-8" snowstorms (not that those occur anymore around here.) Kind of like the March 2018 long-term wind event: just very unique.
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    I was wondering about that too. Birds this morning were singing away as usual. Still, it's significantly better (at least in T-town) than it was earlier today.
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    There's your next month's chat opener.
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    "I love the smell of burning Canadian forests in the morning ... that burnt grilled food in a trash bag smell ... it smells of ... victory ... someday these forest fires will end, son."
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    Yeah, the smell doesn't really bring out the marshmallows over the old campfire vibe. Maybe we need a new thread: "The Great Haze Event of June 2023."
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    Add haze to fog, nonconvective wind, and heat to things we do well around here. Though I have to admit, the heat has been a welcome absence so far. I usually associate poor air quality with heat, so this little episode of Canadian Wildfire Visitation is somewhat dissociative, especially reading the 32 degree ob from West Va. EDIT: Opened my window and within 15 minutes my throat started feeling scratchy. I really need to go up to Fort Reno and see if I can see the skyline of Tysons like is normally visible.
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    Shouldn't be much of an impact locally. After all, there's no trees left and most of the construction in the DMV ought to be able to handle 140 mph straight-line winds. Outer Banks are gone for good, but, hey, things happen.
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    Some pretty heavy rain at times. Distant thunder
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    Mawar’s eastern sibling loves it some Chesapeake. I see they’ve got Ophelia lined up as a name for the Atlantic. So because they’re running short of “I” names (I mean, rilly, “Idalia”?), they ought to go full Bard and put “Iago” into the rotation.
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    Wow! Great going and welcome back to the DMV! Hope u can work some magic at WPC to improve our winters.
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