BlizzardNole

Congrats to folks getting the big stuff.  Got 0.20 here which is better than we've had in a while 

Caught a quick shower as the line was forming overhead but congrats eastern MoCo and Howard as it's turning into a decent line.  Wish it had formed just a little further west 

LWX discussion of thunderstorms in a nutshell:  today east of I-95; Saturday west of blue ridge.  The Drought of '23 rolls on

Oooh good point on the car filters.  Oh and new drought map still reflects severe -- I bet my little micro-desert qualifies as extreme as I've had less than 1.5 for June

Check your AC filters after the smoke clears.  We replaced our filter in April and it's one of those 4-inch thick ones that's supposed to last up to a year.  We had an annual AC checkup last week and ours was dark gray already, like it had been in a whole year.  It was that smoke event from early June.  One of my friends had just changed his in late March and it was almost black.

82 and sickly yellow sun, AQI 175

29 minutes ago, frd said:

Appears the rainfall oppurtunities continue the next two weeks, along with warming temps. 

 

For some of us, let's hope those chances turn out better than the last two weeks!  I'm on track to finish well under 2 inches for the month.  Closest CoCoRaHS (a little south) has 1.84 and I know they caught a couple that I missed.  There's a 3.42 that is just 4.2 miles to my ESE 

Never thought we'd be nearing July and rooting for southerly winds rather than a cool NW flow!  Give me a Bermuda high please

2 hours ago, Wxtrix said:

so much for the orange air quality alert—out here we’re already in red alert territory and it keeps rising.

Some 200-plus purple alert readings in SW PA and we have NW winds thru tomorrow   Hoping the S winds starting Thursday nights helps quickly.  This is from west of Johnstown

On 6/23/2023 at 6:13 AM, WxUSAF said:

Severe drought now in central MD but hopefully not for long!

 

 

It'll be interesting to see the update map on Thursday.  I was already in the severe drought area and my spot missed out on almost ALL of the rain, including last Friday, yesterday and today.  I'm thinking my micro-desert might be getting close to extreme drought soon, since we have no chances of rain any time in the near future

50 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Yep.  Haves and have nots.  It never changes.

We demand the re-distribution of rain! 

I see our next fail in the forecast:  Friday night thru Sunday night with 60-70% chances of rain.  Calling it now NOPE

It's amazing seeing the same places get pounded over and over while other places get nothing.  Zip here again

A little sticky at 75/66.  I see the point/click forecast has 90% rain chances later today again.  Haha yeah right like yesterday's 90%?  I'm thankful for my sprinkler heads so I can easily water the garden beds every few days.  I've let the grass go dormant

Well damn we just had to cancel our mid-July trip to Marco Island, FL due to family stuff -- there went my one chance to see some thunderstorms this summer

Shocked!  Nah, I had my sprinklers running by 5.  I chuckled when reading forecasts of big t-storms and 90% rain chances.  And LOL at that WPC 7-day precip forecast with 3-4 inch rain amounts from a few days ago    It will take until Labor Day to reach 3 inches

Wow that looks like storm chaser video from a hurricane

Full overcast here now, 88/68.  The cloudiness will help with the heavy watering I'll be doing later this afternoon

I know what you mean, NPZ.  I'm in a rain shadow with high elevations from my W around to the NE.  Thunderstorms regularly break up or split around as they descend towards here, then reform just east.  I expect the same tomorrow and will be surprised to see more than a couple tenths of rain.  My parched lawn HAD to cash in with that strat rain this past week and missed all the heavy stuff, some within a handful of miles.  Got nickel and dimed to less than an inch total.

Ooof.  Although further away, the KIAD radar looks OK for the Annp Balt area.  I've been using that one (to watch other people's rain LOL)

I just can't believe so much rain is falling so close to the east.  The other night it was just west.  After today it's relying on thunderstorms so forget about it.  We won't see a drop from those so we're done.  Guess I'll be watering again this weekend

This heavy stuff is training NNE with the cutoff like 5 miles away.  Just comical

Finally caught a couple small but intense showers, one earlier and this one just now.  Each only lasted a few minutes but came down hard with some good sized drops.  Measured 0.6 since yesterday evening.  I don't know how much before that but guestimating 0.3 based on surrounding obs.

26 minutes ago, stormy said:

I have received 3.42 " of rainfall since Monday.   .60" today.  Much of Augusta County is now over 3 inches since Monday.

Wow that's impressive!  Move the decimal a digit to the left and that's what I'd guess I've gotten.  I hope I didn't jinx tonight's rain since I just bought a new rain gauge   I used to just go off the iweather rainfall map which used to be really good.  Man they broke that thing

Light drizzle and 61

Off topic but if you haven't seen video of the hailstorm that hit an outside concert in Colorado last night check it out here.  Many were injured but it's a good thing the hail wasn't larger like they get out there sometimes

Starting to look like days of dreariness for less than a half inch of rain total.  That's not gonna cut it, and shows what a joke those WPC precip forecasts are.  LWX discussion looks familiar - afternoon batch of rain central VA to southern MD; tonight central VA foothills.   After that it's afternoon thunderstorms which almost always miss here. 

Breezy and 59 -- this is the solstice?  Anyway some light rain off and on today and around 0.3-ish based on surrounding obs.  Hoping for much more before we switch to the scattered T-storms in a few days as those typically miss here.  Need stratiform rain