09-10 analogy

Offhand I can only think of two November events better than this: Veterans Day (of course) and Thanksgiving (1989?). And this is a daytime deal whereas the Thanksgiving storm, I think, was overnight. So this might be 2A. I remember a great squall came through in 1995 with wind and snow but I don't recall that much sticking (in Takoma Park, at least). So it's been almost 30 years ... I'm sure there was probably something else in that period that might have approached this, but I don't remember it.

Sleeters but still a little snow falling ... holding out hope.

In CAD we trust.

Eyeballin', but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not at least at an inch. This is the highlight of my month (it's been a stressful one).

Gotta say, the size of these flakes and the rate they're falling ... it's somewhat reminiscent of how I remember Veterans' Day. And a minute after I wrote this, the snow's practically stopped ... one more reason why it's never a good idea to exaggerate, even in jest ...

This has to be a first; video of being adrift in a upper-scale cat 4 storm surge.

Yea, they seem to be trying to break in; I think the house is locked.

It sounds like someone on the phone was pressuring Adair and his partner to go to Mexico and Adair was reluctant but he did it, and now they seem to be in trouble.

I wonder when Mr. Adair intends to decamp from his location.

Those "only high impacts in south Mississippi" killed 240 people. Take away all the other fatalities in N.O and elsewhere completely and Katrina's death toll would have still exceeded any other hurricane in the CONUS since Camille (and Katrina's surge killed more along the Gulf Coast than Camille's did, I believe). And Katrina profoundly affected the political and social discourse in this country in a way few other natural disasters ever have. There is NO downplaying of Katrina possible and that would be the case even if the levees had held.

Round two of the T&L variety show cranking to my NW in MontCo. These past few weeks have produced some big boomers IMBY. Not much wind and no hail, but the cannonade action has been impressive. Now the second round today of full-figured raindrops coming through.

Last night's T&L was as robust as any storm's had this summer. Some pretty close strikes, one of the transmission towers near here was hit, maybe the first time this year that's happened.

Unreal here in upper NW. I've lived here 16 years and have never seen my street, including the sidewalks, a mini-torrent. Water is flowing over the street, sidewalks, the median in between. There's a new rapids around the corner. This rivals June 2006, may even exceed it.

That’s a new one in the SPS arsenal.

Yeah a little thunder and lightning here as well: first of the event in MNOTW

Streets around here were raging brooks last night, I think the city needs to clear some gutter infrastructure, it was vaguely reminiscent of June 2006. I know yesterday was a historic event, not downplaying it all, but there weren't any periods what I would call torrential rain (but I may have missed them, wasn't monitoring all day), just long extended periods of heavy rain. ( Then again, "torrential" is one of those notoriously subjective words used to describe weather that helps to make boards like this rock with such vigorous disagreement. With me, it's a bias, I suppose: unless there's t&l (or tropical) involved, I tend to not categorize rainfall as torrential. Again, totally subjective.. Certainly the statistics and reported rainfall verify that Saturday was indeed an area-wide heavy rain event of significance. Along with the windstorm in March, probably the two most noteworthy weather events of the year so far, off the top of my head. Well, that and the extended cold that kicked off January. With the breezy winds and the relatively cool temps, yesterday had the feel of a fall nor'easter (I'm sure someone's noted that before, haven't read through the thread.) Interesting to read about t/l, especially to the east, did not notice any of that, yesterday or today. Today has featured some picturesque cloud contrasts; no towering c-nimbus or low rolling shelfs, of course, but just recently the southern horizon was dark and ominous and the northern was much brighter with some grey scud moving across. This has been, IMO, an eminently tolerable summer so far; except for a few days earlier in the month and maybe last week, it hasn't been very oppressive at all. I think DCA has topped out at 97 so far? That's not bad at all.

Seeing the EC video, first thing it reminded me of was some of the tsunami footage from the Tohoku quake back in ‘11.

Not bad overall; it had a great look as it approached: well-defined shelf cloud, greenish tint below it in the vicinity of Tyson's. As ominous looking a storm as I've seen in some time. Almost had that "mothership" look, or at least "grandmothership." Best wind was about 2/3 through; it might have approached 50 MPH, but only briefly, and coincided with some legitimately torrential rain -- it's always nice to see the "curtains" of rain envelop everything for a moment or two. As is often the case, and as others have remarked, the best T&L came toward the end. No hail, but with a fairly new car that I have to park outside, hail is not something I want to deal with. Yeah, if you live in Norman or Wichita Falls or Venezuela, this wouldn't even register. But we live in the mid-Atlantic, where the weather just doesn't get too extreme (fog and HHH aside) except on rare occasion. Seems like it packed a bigger punch out toward Dulles/Leesburg.

Very ominous to the west; haven’t seen any CG yet

Up at Ft Reno, just heard first distant thunder, though maybe that from the little flare up near 495/270? edit: which just seemed to die out. one thing about t storms and big w storms — the waiting just before is almost as good as the event, at least for me

As I recall, the forecast that Friday morning was for the possibility of severe later on, but the focus for a severe outbreak was on Saturday. I remember taking my dog for a walk about 15 minutes before it hit and seeing lightning flashing in the sky to the west. It was just ridiculously hot for that time of night. I had a vague idea of going up to Fort Reno to watch it come in, but the dog wanted to get back inside. Most uncharacteristic; I usually have to drag her back inside after a walk. I think it was just too dang hot for her, and not that she knew something freakish was coming and she wanted to take shelter. Anyway I'm glad the dog won out. I wouldn't have wanted to be rushing back to my house once all hell broke loose, with a traumatized beagle in tow.

Two years ago right now -- 1130 or so -- it was really kicking into overdrive. Midday Saturday, it was snowing heavier than I could recall with any other storm with the possible exception of 1983 (which I don't remember that well). Heavier than anything I remembered from 96. I can sympathize with those who prefer Snowpocalypse to the February storms. Snowpocalypse was a delight. Snowmaggeon was an event; the whole 10-day period was almost trial by snow; the stuff kept coming down and, once the majesty of the blizzard was over, the charm began to wear off. But the December snowstorm was perfect in practically every way: the holiday season, the best part of it occurred during daylight hours, cold but not brutally, no sleet, enough wind to keep things interesting, generous accumulations. I was out and about in it a lot more than I was during Snowmaggedon. I remember it more clearly, too, because at the time I was thinking, OK, I better commit every moment to memory because the next one will be, if I'm lucky, at least six years (and not six weeks) away. , As the reality of DC snow climatology reasserts its noxious self, that winter just seems more and more surreal.

By the time I'd registered it as an earthquake, it was over. My impressions of it can't be separated from the points of reference I was using in real time to filter the experience. So it's hard to be totally objective about what I felt at the time; it really was something very unique because I have no antecedents to the experience of having the structure around me shake like hell for a couple of seconds. You experience a wind gust of 70 MPH, your point of reference can be a wind gust of 20; a heat index of 122, well heat indicies of 105 happen just about summer around here -- hell, you can get that in a sauna. But out of nowhere, a house staring to shudder like it's got a fever that breaking -- that's a bit of an outlier in my life and, I imagine, in the lives of millions of people around here who've never put in time in earthquake zones. There was a sound that crescendoed just when the "violent" -- yeah, that's the proper word to use, I don't need the Mercalli scale to tutor me on how to use the language -- vibration began. What made it violent wasn't the intensity of the shaking but that it was so unexpected and (in my experience) unprecedented. In retrospect, my attention was arrested by three things: how the chair I was sitting in shook , how the windows rattled, and how my elderly dog slept through the whole thing. In the immediate aftermath, I wondered if in fact it was an earthquake, because I looked to the dog for validation and he was snoring away as if nothing had happened. There was a brief nanosecond when I wondered whether I'd somehow imagined the whole thing, or that maybe my mail was being delivered by a Gorgon.

You win the internets.

My 16 year old beagle slept right through it. The other dog wasn't particularly impressed by it, either.