BlizzardNole

Heading to Frederick this evening for dinner with relatives -- might actually have a chance to see a thunderstorm since I will be out of the damn dome I live under.  Haven't cut the grass in weeks.

I got off the MARC train at the Germantown station just after 6:00 to a heavy, wind-blown downpour that soaked me from the waist down, despite an umbrella.  I get home to the Milestone Microdesert to blazing sun and dry, dusty ground.  This place is just unbelievable how it does this over and over.  And now of course there's rain heading into Frederick missing to the north.  I don't know if it's Sugarloaf blocking stuff or what but this is an absolute weather ****hole.

8 hours ago, yoda said:

Current radar on radarscope shows it pouring just north of Germantown right now

I managed to get 0.3 but just 1-2 miles south got over an inch.  Ground is still hard as rock.

Got almost nothing as nice looking cells missed in every direction.  Look at this shot!  This happens waaaaay too much to be just coincidence.  There is something really strange about this spot.  I've had ONE thunderstorm this whole summer.

LWX wised up and lowered rain chances to 40% or less and for scattered storms.  My neighbor saw me watering everything last night and asked "aren't we getting rain?"  He looked surprised when I said nope, none.

Man look at poor Greensboro for the last 30 days -- 2 point something.  Horrible!

 I have family in northern Calvert – they got a nice thunderstorm Wednesday  that was moving north, and a nice one yesterday that was moving south. Now they’re getting that big slug of rain. 

  I just went out and heavily watered my parched gardens. I don’t expect to see a drop here. 

Got a laugh out of the point-and-click.  I don't think I will see any rain at all through the weekend.

On 7/24/2019 at 6:48 PM, FXW176 said:

Very cool. Oldest child was intrigued when she saw me planting dill, parsley, and fennel. Along with the rue. Wanted to know if I was growing an herb garden. Told her yes, but not for us.

I've been thinking of adding dill, fennel and parsley to my butterfly garden for black swallowtails but haven't tried it yet.  I get lots of Monarch caterpillars with the tropical milkweed, and all kinds of butterflies nectar on that stuff.  Hummingbirds love it too.

Have you seen any black swallowtail caterpillars on the herbs?

Wow, some of those look pretty heavy, and they're slow movers.  Someone's gonna end up with a surprise 1.0 or more.

Radar estimates -- can't believe how bad some areas got screwed, especially southern MD.  Hopefully places that were shut out get at least some rain today.  I managed 0.8.  Luscious 67 degrees out.

7 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

Lol the storms are literally splitting around me in Germantown.

Welcome to Maryland's weather hole.  Rained for a few minutes here but that's not gonna cut it.  My yard is hard as rock.

On the plus side, the temp is down to 72.

I'm going out to water.  I am feeling a shut out.

Crap, looks like I'm getting split by the Frederick and southern MontCo cells.  Oh well, at least the temp dropped.  I hope my area doesn't get screwed tomorrow somehow.

36 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Scored a nice t-storm.  Nice surprise.  Yard desperately needed the rain.  In excess of .5".  Temp knocked down to 78F.  Caught a real nice break.

Just looked at it on Radarscope.  That must have been sweet after today's heat!  I hope we all get some good rains on Monday.

Still 95 here.  Feels hotter out than at 4 or 5 pm due to no breeze.

Anyone near Dale City?  That looked like a lot of lightning that went through there.

Still getting some light rain and a few strikes here. 

Nice thunderstorm in Germantown with a couple gusts to about 40 and some lightning.  The best part is the temp went from about 95 to 72 in minutes!  Still raining.

Just 0.2 yesterday, but 5.5 for the month.  What a string of above average rainfall months!

Only 0.2 for me.

At work in DC a few blocks from Union Station and barely missed the nice-looking cell to my north.  Looks like lots of lightning on Radarscope with it.  DARN!

3.2 from the deluge this morning and 4.5 since Thursday.  As hard as it was pounding down here, I can't imagine the places that got 6 plus!

I was checking out the crazy pictures on WTOP and they had this blurb at the end of the article 

All eyes turn to the south next weekend, where forecast models are hinting at a possible tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico.  Long-range forecasts are hardly a given, but any storm that does develop in the gulf will need to be monitored for weather impacts in the D.C. region early next week.

Been doing well here:

July 2:  0.7

July 4:  0.8

July 6:  0.4

I was curious about the highest ever dew point, and found 95/91 at Melbourne, FL July 1987.  Can you even imagine that?!  I also saw a DP of 88 from Minnesota.

Then there's the world record of 108/95 from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.  How long could someone survive in that?

Looks like it's bubbling up towards Ballengers Creek now -- lots of lightning with it.