BlizzardNole

Not too bad so far today sitting on the deck in shade; just 82 at 11:30.

I checked Key West out of curiosity with the outrageous 91 degree water temp...currently 92/78, and they were 89/76 at FOUR AM.  Only went down to 88/75 from 5 to 6 am with a thunderstorm. 

13 hours ago, midatlanticweather said:

Out here, just southwest of Purcellville, I am sitting at 1.58 inches of rain for the last 31 days! The storm two nights ago dumped almost an inch of rain less than 1 mile from my home! Yesterday, the storms literally split around me and I ended up with .04" . I submitted the information to the Climate office. Meanwhile, friends of mine in the eastern part of Loudoun saw 8+ inches of rain in June and over 3 inches the last week! I have brown grass and a dusty dry yard! 

 

Weird how that works.  I've had summers like that in the Germantown area where storms miss me left and right and I get cracked garden beds and fried grass.  This year my area is a rain magnet with almost 8 inches for June and 1.4 for July already.  I bet my area gets nailed Saturday evening.

Nice thunderstorm took a weird track right up I-270 and died out over Germantown, delivering a much-needed 0.8.  The lawn and garden are happy.

1 hour ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

My son’s being seen this afternoon. His Dr. thinks it’s unlikely to be Covid as no one else is sick and we haven’t really been anywhere (and when we do, we’re very strict on masks & social distancing). Ticks are really bad in my yard this year (I’ve pulled them off the kids and myself several times) so Lyme is a concern. I’ll let you all know the outcome.

Hope your little guy's appointment goes well and he feels better soon.  Damn ticks -- I earned myself 38 days on antibiotics two summers ago because one of those things, and my mother in northern Calvert has that meat and dairy allergy from a Lone Star tick bite.

Sun getting going here, and hoping for some rain later as my area missed out yesterday.

No rain for me this time.  Woke up to thunder at 1:30 am but they missed.  My mother in northern Calvert says 3.5 inches (four miles south of Dunkirk), and that it rumbled and poured all night.

4 hours ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Less than a tenth with the morning showers. Back in the usual mid summer rain rut, with the trees in full transpiration mode, starving the grass.

Running the sprinkler is pretty futile this time of year as it is impossible to get a good soaking of the soil when its this dry. Over seeding/reseeding will commence in about a month. 

We went to OC last Friday and noticed all the dust being kicked up by farm equipment along Rt. 404.  I was surprised how dry things looked!  My location was just lucky with a soaking 7.8 inches in June.  It was very well spread out too, with no week letting less than 1.65.

32 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Woke up and saw that it rained. Surprised to see .77” in the gauge?!?! Did not hear a thing.

I did not hear a thing either.  Is there a way to look back at radar for several hours?

Woke up to 0.6 in the gauge -- I think it was after midnight but not completely sure.  I'll count it as July 1.

At Ocean City for the weekend.  It was cool most of the day with a stiff south breeze off that chilly water - in the mid 70s with bout 20 mph wind.  Then about 4:30 the wind stopped suddenly, then shifted west and it felt like someone opened the oven door.  Went to 94 in just minutes.  It was so hot that I went inside.  Couple hours later  it shifted back and you almost need a sweatshirt on the beach.

Had a very busy workday and didn't know we had yet another big t-storm rolling in.  It hit pretty hard with some 50-ish wind gusts, lightning and rain blowing in sheets.  The purples on Radarscope were just north - I wonder if there was hail up there.  Looks like about 0.7 more added to June's rich coffers, which now stand at 7.9 inches.  Wow.  Also dropped the temp to a nippy 62.

Picked up 1.25 yesterday from two storms.  Total for June 7.2.

Ended and sun already coming out.  About 1.0 fell in less than 15 minutes.  This pic does not give it justice, but the yard behind us floods BAD when it rains this hard.  The people on the right put in a huuuuge stone patio that takes up all but a couple feet from their back property line.  Also the people a couple houses further up cemented their entire back yard.  This makes the drainage a nightmare for the houses behind me.  That stuff can't be compliant with codes.

LOL.  I get off work at 5:00 and went out to get the grass cut with recycling coming tomorrow.  I check radar and there's nothing anywhere close so good to go for my 45-minute job.  After two strips I hear a thundercrack and look up at the sunny sky.  Shrug.  A minute later I hear a LOUD crack and look at radar and see this new cell forming right over top of me.  Within another couple minute it's raining hard with multiple bolts.  Now it's raining in sheets, with close CTG bolts, and still sunny skies to the NW.  So much for that job! *reaches in the fridge for a beer.*

Good ground truth on LWX's radar estimate here.  Just a couple tenths in my gauge with over 1" amounts all around.

Ha can you imagine Jeb if this happened again:

Huge Central Texas Snowstorm of 1985

We've had three separate "thunderstorms" but only about 0.2 total of rain.  So much thunder and so little rain. 

Big, severe warned storm weakened and split right as it arrived.  Still enjoying some thunder but not much rain.  Thought is was gonna be a gully washer until the last minute.

That one that popped out of nowhere in western Montgomery County almost caught my kids out for a walk.  They were moving when they got back LOL.  Made it by two minutes.

Rained pretty hard for a couple minutes with some thunder.  Tiny little cell.

Edit:  severe warned already wow!  Close miss for us for the big stuff.

Got 0.4 again (three times in four days getting 0.4) for a juicy total of 5.55 for the month.

My late 70s parents were coming up for a visit from Calvert today -- I told them to hold off and maybe we do it tomorrow.  They called a half hour ago and said we're plowing through it.   Actually slackening up a little on their route but still!  

Heavy downpour just now but ending.

Wow Das that's an awesome picture.  I see your heat wave continues up there!

Got .4 from the showers last night.

10/10/79 -- had about 2 inches in northern Calvert.  I was in middle school at the time - no one could believe what they were seeing.

3 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Maine has stolen all our heat. Another day in the L 90s there...I need to get up there again.

Just looked -- there are mid to upper 90s from Maine well up into Quebec while SW VA and western NC have some upper 50s.  

21 hours ago, mappy said:

That's impressive! i def need to figure out a better way to plan meals. we have two busy nights a week with the kiddo and gymnastics, that usually ends up being "whatever" nights (leftovers, cereal lol). We do try to plan during the day, take out meat to defrost or whatever. But the kiddo is still a big picky eater and her meals are so narrow that i usually end up making two dinners. one of us and one for her. thankfully shes easy (pizza, butter noodles, grilled cheese to name a few)...

I laughed when I saw this.  I have a very picky eater too.  She's still like that and she's EIGHTEEN.

I like Mrs.J's recipe list up there -- might try to add some in to our revolving list.  Unfortunately my wife does not like to cook at all, so almost all of it falls on me.

1 hour ago, poolz1 said:

.38" Which doubles my monthly total...roughly.  Vis sat this morning looked like wild fires with smoke plumes coming off of skyline drive...upslope was cranking.

Wow what a difference over just about 35 miles from me!  Don't drop a match up there.  Hope you cash in over the next couple days.

Seeing a couple peeks of sun.  Maybe it'll stir up some showers.