BlizzardNole

Nice thundershower yesterday evening with 0.5 and a little bit of lightning.  No where near severe though.

Hoping for more today - LWX bullish on northern/central MD.

Saw this blurb in LWX's discussion:

During the latter portions of next week, the window seems to be open for any TCs that develop to strike the Southeast Coast.
Monitoring the tropics as we approach the climatological peak of the hurricane season.

Only about 0.1 so far, but hoping those better returns just west can get here and stay a while.

My mother still talks about Hazel.  She remembers those big, round metal trashcans they had back then flying down the street in her Cheverly, MD neighborhood.

3 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

1.14” today

19.68” for the month

30.10” since July 1

 

^Those aren’t typos 

Man that is NUTS!  For comparison, I have 5.5 for the month and 9.0 since July 1.  Look at Calvert on this map!  Some less than 6" amounts in northern MD for the same period.  Unreal.

0.6 yesterday and 0.35 for today.  Sun coming out now. 

It may not have been a huge amount, but it was mostly a slow, soaking rain which was really needed.  Before yesterday, I only had 0.5 since August 16.

Another nice shower moving thru now.  Lawn and gardens will  be happy.  It's been a long losing streak so this is really nice!

Just got home from moving our younger kid in at University of Maryland and found 0.45 in the gauge from that thunderstorm that rolled thru here around 4:30.  It looked good on Radarscope with some decent lightning.  Wish I got home in time to see it!

Nice solid line of rain/thunderstorms SE of here but yet we got 0.00 yet again.  I've had multiple misses this week less than 2 miles away and now this.  I am the new east coast NPZ.

Missed one yesterday by a mile to the north, and this one today slipped by a mile to my south.  This spot is truly uncanny.

I thought I had a good thunderstorm heading SE right towards me out of Frederick...until it took a hard turn east at the last minute.  Missed by a mile.

Nice looking thunderstorm up there in Frederick.  Any reports?  

In Ocean City for the week.  Raining pretty good at 70 degrees with winds gusting over 30 mph.  The drops coming off the balcony above us and floating off in the wind look just like like flakes mixing in.   Looking at better weather starting tomorrow.

Very happy to see the around 1 inch amounts in upper Montgomery.  We needed that.  Also glad to see not-so-heavy amounts in hard-hit Calvert where the family is.  What the Richmond area got would have been real bad for them.

52 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

12z GFS is yet another southern MD bull’s eye for Sunday. 

NOT what I want to hear.  My Calvert family are nervously asking about this system.  My niece in your neighborhood put sand bags about 12" high all along the back of her townhouse as a temporary measure until they address the drainage problem.  Look at the insane difference in rain over the last 60 days between southern MD and my Germantown area!

Thanks to @WeatherShak for posting that radar loop above.  How else could rain miss me?  How about a cell passing east-to-west a mile or two south?  Yep.

Yeah I have received a couple hundreds, but that's not gonna cut it for my parched, hardpan yard.

Wow those are some awesome caterpillars!  I had to look up Regal moth to see what they look like.  I got a Luna moth to lay some eggs in a paper bag a few years ago, and read up on how to raise 'em.  I released about 12 Luna moths that summer.

I have two monarch chrysalises that will hatch next week while we are in Ocean City.  So, they are going and will be launched from a 6th floor balcony to be beach butterflies.

Well got about 0.2 which is pretty good rain for us.

Wow at Odenton -- looks like 4 or 5 different cells just coalesced over top of them.  Gonna be wild there for a bit.

I am going to run the sprinklers hard this evening.  I am convinced it will not rain at all here today or tomorrow.  My yard was dusty and hard as rock when I cut the grass yesterday.

There will be some places that get very heavy rain, but I fully expect to be out watering my hardpan, parched gardens tonight.

I am looking forward to lower temps starting tomorrow.

If we are driving to Ocean City on Saturday, do we need a fanboat?

Cutting the grass right now.  It is HOT!

A very nice setting you have there!  After 20 years we are tiring of being in a tight development with houses 20-30 feet away.  I mean, the back walls of the houses behind are literally in our face.  With so many yards close by, it's a rule that at least one lawnmower fires up as soon as we try to enjoy the deck in the evening.

Being a federal employee and looking at much more telework in the future, I am eyeballing Carroll County!

14 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Anyone see this? 1.03” of rain in 5 minutes  
 

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/08/07/friday-storm-delaware-isaias-delmarva-power-flooding-rain/3324504001/

Amazing.  Imagine what that looked like coming down.  I remember hearing about the unbelievable rain that Maria dropped in this town in Puerto Rico, including 40 inches in 24 hours.

Hurricane Maria dropped 14 inches in one hour on Caguas, Puerto Rico

Nothing at all after two days of flood watches.  Good thing I got 1.85" from Isaias because I think yesterday was the last chance for rain for a long time.

1 hour ago, AmericanWxFreak said:

Not that we need it as badly anymore, but sucks to see the rain miss south yesterday and north today lol 

Yup.  That big storm last night sat 5-10 miles from me for a couple hours.  Heard the thunder but missed.  I knew today would be a shutout.