BlizzardNole

11 minutes ago, batmanbrad said:

Looks on Radarscope as if that cell is making a bit of a right turn, away from Germantown/Gaithersburg and more towards Derwood/Rockville.

And I appreciate that!  I want no part of large hail

Whew it's a hot one, up to 87

Ocean City hit 91 yesterday, never went below 75 last night, and was already 84 by 9 am.  Then the wind shifted to the NE and BAM it's mostly cloudy and 68!

I was just looking at Boston!  Upper 50s and cloudy.  Payback for their winter storm blessings

58 minutes ago, wxtrix said:

90 outside, 85 in my house. ugh.

Ooof!  Did you say the AC is getting fixed Thursday?  Of course the heat wave ends right then.

92 in Germantown now

On 5/30/2022 at 9:17 AM, nw baltimore wx said:

Nice Memorial Day on tap, and a good May for most of us as we enter summer. The exception being some of the coastal areas assuming the totals are accurate.

 

I can attest to those high amounts in upper Mont Co.  I stepped into my garden bed the other day and my foot sank about four inches.

Already 82 at 10 am -- gonna be a hot one!

1.1 for the event.  Now looking forward to some beautiful weather this weekend!

18 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Another reason not to be so wishful for severe weather...guess who needs a new roof now too?  I have pockmarks all over my shingles, it's bad.  Hope it's not too much a fight with state farm.  

Yikes hope it works out.  I'll never forget the incredible base-ball sized hail that smashed the Kettering neighborhood in the Largo area.  I still remember the date July 10, 1978.  Every house needed new roofs (houses were just 9 years old at that point) and all windows facing west were shattered and people covered them with plastic.  It was disastrous.  Something about Kettering -- it also got a tornado in 1971 that took off roofs and destroyed carports.  I remember it clearly even though I was only 4.  I wonder if that's what started my interest in weather.

18 minutes ago, yoda said:

We do pick and stage at my work (I am at Amazon Delivery Station full time now at DDC3 in Springfield) from 9am to 1230pm every day... which is basically getting the bags and packages set and put on the vans for delivery... so apparently it has become my job to alert for any bad weather this morning so they can hold vans or bring in any drivers from outside for their safety if needed

I remember that Amazon facility that got hit a while back -- can't remember where that was.  That was scary!  Amazon workers are the awesome sauce

3 hours ago, IronTy said:

This weather is so depressing.  I'm on my second week of COVID and am stuck in the brain fog phase and this weather is not helping at all.  Clouds are stupid.  

Just like that time a couple weeks ago upstate NY is basking in upper 70s/low 80s while were in this

Pardon the non-Mid Atlantic topic but what's with that large wedge tornado in Texas yesterday that reporters keep saying has "wind gusts of 70 mph?"  I just saw this quote in another article.  70 mph?

after photos and videos of a gigantic tornado near Morton circulated online. The storm has wind gusts up to 70 mph, NWS officials in Lubbock said.

9 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Time sensitive, but some sort of neat convergence line moving E—W on radar right now. Clearing behind it.

That is cool!  Looks like a shock wave

Beautiful today but looking dreary the next couple days.  I bet we don't get out of the upper 50s tomorrow.

The coming weekend looks nice -- summery but not too hot.

Not severe in Germantown but some good lightning and rolling thunder.  I love those kind of storms at night

Just had the most intense thunderstorm I've seen in years here.  I was just arriving back from College Park after moving kids out of apartment and it hit right as we got off 270.  We crawled the last three miles with 50-60 mph winds, blinding rain and close lightning.

Got home and was pleasantly surprised to see my dozens of seedlings and flowers still on a table out in the yard -- I was afraid they would have been blown off.  Just as I said "phew" the HAIL started!  I got real worried for a minute but it was never more than nicked sized.

I don't like hail.  At all.  I have seen baseball sized hail twice in my life -- Kettering, MD in 1978 and Orlando, FL in 1992 where windows were smashed, cars and roofs were ruined, and I never want to see it again.

Look at the difference between the Naval Academy and just a few miles away!  People near the Bay are loving the free AC

Imagine planning an outdoor May wedding this year -- 1st Saturday upper 40s with rain, 2nd Saturday light rain and cool, 3rd Saturday mid-upper 90s.  Ah, May in the Mid-Atlantic

Parents (4 miles south of Dunkirk) said marble-sized hail and wind, and the rain was so intense for a few minutes that it overtopped the gutters.  They have a new car and no garage/carport so they were really relieved when the hail didn't get bigger

My parents live in northern Calvert, just south of Dunkirk.  Might be a little wild there

This will be the latest I ever get my garden in!  I really need a few dry days - hopefully coming up this week.  I've got trays of milkweed, lantana, rue, annual vinca and sunpatiens ready to go.

I had one black swallowtail chrysalis over the winter that hatched last week.  Little fella

Nice day again.  It's weird looking at the temp map and seeing upper 80s/low 90s all the way past Montreal, while South Carolina is sitting in the 60s

Very nice afternoon in the 70s and variable clouds.  Going to be great walking weather in a little while.

I can't believe the same low that detonated last weekend's weather is coming back to get us this weekend 

I don't have a gauge out but the Rainfall Map has me at 1.5 new overnight and 3.3 for the event.  The grass is so green it glows LOL

Sorry to anyone that had outside plans this weekend.  Imagine couples that picked today for an outdoor wedding 

3 hours ago, CAPE said:

Latest AFD from Mount Holly-

A strong, slow moving coastal storm will affect the region for most of the weekend. Widespread rain will be ongoing early Friday night as a warm front sits south of our region. Primary low pressure over the Ohio Valley will weaken Friday night as a secondary low develops just off the Delmarva coast in response to an approaching upper level trough and strong low level frontogenetic forcing. That secondary low will continue to develop off the coast and sit with little movement Saturday into Sunday, before strong high pressure to the north begins slowly forcing it south. The low will also start to become vertically stacked during this time as the upper level trough closes off and moves over the surface low. This will cause the surface low to start slowly weakening, but thanks to strong high pressure to the north, the pressure gradient will remain very strong, reinforcing the onshore flow.

This is quite an anomalous system for the season, a true Nor`easter with multiple days of rain and battering wind likely especially at the coast. The steadiest rain is expected from Friday night through Saturday, but periods of rain and showers are likely to continue into Sunday. We`ll first deal with the initial thump of overrunning precipitation, which will be what starts during the daytime on Friday. As the coastal low spins up, we`ll then see areas of banded frontogenetic precipitation on its northwest flank which will continue to bring areas of rain through Sunday. With time on Sunday, as the low slowly shifts further south, northern portions of the area may dry out, while showers likely continue to the south and east.

Temperatures will also be a story this weekend. The combination of rain, a thick cloud deck, and strong onshore winds will lead to much below normal temperatures both Saturday and Sunday. Highs mostly in the low to mid 50s are expected, and a lot of time will be spent in the 40s. Combined with the wind and rain, the weekend looks downright ugly overall.

Some bits out of that disco with the obligatory why not February 

• A strong, slow moving coastal storm
• That secondary low will continue to develop off the coast and sit with little movement Saturday into Sunday
• initial thump of overrunning precipitation
• As the coastal low spins up...frontogenetic precipitation on its northwest flank

1 hour ago, Chris78 said:

Still a healthy 2 to 4 " on GFS and CMC.

2" to  the south 

4" amounts along the northern tier of MD

 

Mappy PSU jackpot?

My maples are full leafed out now with not a single whirlybird seed.  I can't believe it!  Maybe it was that chainsaw stare I gave them last summer