09-10 analogy

Cell just SW of Alexandria seems to be taking on a look. Meanwhile a bit of a downpour in up nw

Breezy in nw but still socked in with clouds

I don’t remember there being much sun before the Ivan outbreak, but that was a long time ago so memory may not be reliable. Last night’s storm was IMBY frankly the most impressive nighttime thunderstorm since … well, the derecho, probably. I slept through the one that caused the Arlington tornado earlier this year.

Getting windy this is a potent storm one of the best in a while

Wow at this lightning

Just woke up to a strobe effect

Gotta have Ichabod in there. and what is best, in the story of sleepy hollow, he’s in love with a woman named … Katrina

That was some pretty wild stuff ... a bit reminiscent of some of Josh M.'s legendary footage from Dorian. Not as intense of course, but it's about as hairy as anything I've seen today.

I don't know what has more staying power: the cam near Grand Isle or Ida itself. One thing is, Ida seems to have quite a bit more video documentation than Laura. Laura was largely at night, though ...

This is a pretty good livestream: https://www.htv10.tv/livestream with the outstanding virtue that the guys aren't claiming to be in 200 MPH gusts.

And someone put it up on Wiki already.

I think it finally gave out. Put up one hell of a fight, though.

All we need now is to see a great white float by. Or Cthulhu.

I don't know what's more amazing: the footage or the fact there is footage.

Looks like it'll see the eastern inner eye wall ... that is if it still holds. Would be remarkable if the feed holds and somehow it can get a picture of inside the eye. Not that it isn't remarkable footage now.

Then a hurricane came/Devastation reigned/And our man saw his future drip-dripping down the drain

I wonder if Robert Ricks still works for the NWS down there? He was the guy who wrote the legendarily ominous discussion before Katrina. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/hurricane-katrina-weather-forecast-robert-ricks-urgent-warning-changed-the-way-forecasts-are-issued.html

Beat me to it.

Looks like the incoming storm Should have some good T&L. Getting some pretty legit subsevere gusts as well: maybe 40 or so edit: frankly these gusts are about as strong as anything I’ve experienced in my little corner all summer. Maybe 7/1 was a bit higher, hard to say when it’s totally subjective calls

Just heard the Dora gun go off nearby. CG hit a nearby TV tower. Perhaps my favorite aspect of a thunderstorm; a CG strike that lights up the room in broad daylight, followed immediately by thunder that sounds like the mating call of 10,000 brontosaurs with sore throats.

Storm migrating from my south has had more T&L with it than a lot of more well-advertised storms coming from the traditional north and west this season. I think some tiny hail might be mixed in as well.

2010-11 basically sucked IMO. Carmaggedon was memorable locally primarily courtesy of the internal combustion engine. Otherwise it was 4-7” of (admittedly convective) slop that pummeled NYC with 20” and PHL with 15”. ( I don’t think Baltimore proper did much better.) Boxing day would be by acclimation the greatest screw job ever if we weren’t still coming of the high of the previous winter. Groundhog Day wasn’t our storm of course but that didn’t stop about 2/3 of the rest of the country from cashing in one way or another. Plus I think 40n got a few other moderate events that dc got squat from.

Got a kick from rereading how my pooches slept thru the whole thing. After a decade, I think their non response sticks in my mind more than the quake itself

Dec 09 to Jun 12 was quite the stretch around here: the pre-Xmas 09 snow, the 10 Days that Whited Out Our World in late Jan/early Feb 10, Carmageddon, the tail end of Superoutbreak 2 in April 11, the quake, Irene, Lee, the derecho. Every one of them a big memory (Lee only because I happened to be driving though it) for most DMVers. Since then: well, Jan 2016 of course. But other than than, a few isolated severe events (but anything region-wide?), a couple of good winters without a real signature event, the March 2018 windstorm (didn't really excite me, but I guess I'm the minority there). Nothing to make a scrapbook over. This summer's severe has been good for a lot of folks but all the real fun has edged me by. Then the B-listers: Isaias, the January 2019 snowstorm, a few localized (if notable) flash floods. Just a personal observation, YMWOV. I realize you could lift a lot of 2.5 year periods at random throughout the 100+ year recorded weather of the DMV and make a similar conclusion, and the subjectivity with such an exercise is off in the nth dimension, but it'd be hard to beat 12/09-6/12 from my POV.

The remnant surface is in SW PA now and what to Dc’s south look like it’s going wide to the right? So I guess I shouldn’t plan on much local excitement, not that expectations were that high anyway.