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46 minutes ago, vastateofmind said:

There's no other member on this board than @Scraff (well, @CAPE, too) when the power fails, and we NEED to empty out the beer fridge before it all gets warm...or, alternately, transfer it to the ice chests....   

That is a REAL pretty sat pic right there.

So, for those who were here back then...does Ophelia fall just short of being as impactful as Isabel in 2003 in terms of rain or wind? Or not even close? I've seen a few historical charts that showed Isabel dropped 1"-3" in the metro area, but the winds (I think, or at least remember) definitely had in impact in the area.

Isabel knocked a tree into my deck. So, I'd say personally that was impactful. 

Wind advisory just went out. 20 - 30mph with gusts up to 45mph. Stronger (50mph) along the Chesapeake bay shore and tidal Potomac. 

1 hour ago, dailylurker said:

By the look of this thread I figured the storm went poof. Some very interesting weather on the way. Wake up, people! We have a soon to be tropical storm basically moving up the bay tomorrow. 

I think Lee raised the bar a tad too high this year. 

Did I just see Lee's ghost practically ride up the Chesapeake bay on the GFS for 09/23?

Merciful mother nature. Lots of good rain for the area. Yesterday I saw a sprinkler watering brown grass at an office park. So sad. 

I'm impressed by the little drought I have going on in my neighborhood. No rain from yesterday's storms. Storms don't look very widespread this afternoon either.

Be nice to get a shower or two out of this monsoon. No need for the flooding rains. Just a taste. 

If anyone is interested, NOAA in College Park has an open house. I plan to take my son. 

WHAT:  Open House, Science on a Sphere ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m.

WHEN:  Saturday, Sept. 16, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

WHERE: NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction  
              5830 University Research Court
              College Park, MD 20740

Hope that line creeps NW. Doubt it though.

Nice little thundershower here. On the razors edge to the north of the DC storm. 

My 9 year old son mentioned the term shelf cloud this morning when talking about the storms they drove through in PA on Friday. 

I'm so proud. 

Pretty good storm here now with tons CTG lightening and strong winds. Saw a few small branches fly around. Kids are a bit nervous. heard some small hail hit the windows. Pretty good storm for once in my backyard.

Just now, MN Transplant said:

We may still have a chance

Yeah. Lookin at the cluster by Warrenton. 

Damn. I may not even get clipped by the Germantown cluster. May end up with showers that form behind the line. 

36 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

LOL east moving thunderstorms almost in the same place as yesterday moving my way.  I fully expect them to fade right as they arrive like yesterday and for the front to go thru dry tomorrow.  What will come though is beautiful temps from Sunday thru most of next week.  It's gonna be nice!  Get those grills ready

I dunno. I see a bunch of yellow severe storm warning boxes popping up west of 81. Looks like a firehose of storms may be headed our way. At least today looks a lot better than yesterday. 

1 hour ago, Kmlwx said:

There's a diffuse boundary to the west of the existing storms. That will be something to watch. This is from the TIAD radar. 

 

Nice call. Shower popped up at the north end of that feature.

Anyone seen this microburst video? It is pretty awesome. Started looking at microburst videos on youtube. Amazing how it looks like some giant dumps a bucket of cold rain out of the sky. 

Huge wet microburst flattens Trees.

4 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Snow or not, I’d expect the drought to get busted in dramatic fashion later this year one way or another.

I can't recall the specific year, but I recall that one time when we got like 13 inches of rain from August through September. That was pretty cool. Of course I could be off by a few inches. 

Finally. Some good summer storms. Although it would be a tad better if they weren't at the crack of dawn. Nevertheless, I got some good rains. 

I keep getting these alerts from Radarscope about heavy rain and tornado threats. But later in the day it never really pans out in my neighborhood. I mean not looking forward to tornados. But rain would be nice. The mosquito population is thin. hehe

Soupy out. 

Yep. Bone dry in my neighborhood from that early afternoon line. Amazing. Surprisingly this line forming out west tonight may yield a wet road and sidewalks at least. If it holds together. 

A bunch of pimple popper storms today. 

40 minutes ago, mappy said:

woo storms tonight? 

I do hope. However, lost power Monday night. Kinda fun with the kids and all. 

Waiting on this "little storm that could" drift toward the College Park area. We'll see if it makes it. Would be nice but quick.