BlizzardNole

I am enjoying the mostly cloudy skies this morning; it's good for the extensive watering of the garden beds.  Even the vincas are complaining, and those things are tough.

So, anyone got thoughts on a possible cut off low setting up near the coast next weekend?  How ironic it would be if after weeks of dry, we get a wet week while we are on our family reunion trip in VA Beach (21st-28th).   LOL I am already getting texts from relatives asking why their phone weather apps are showing the thunderstorm icon every day that week.

1 hour ago, dailylurker said:

Radar doesn't look promising. Going to be a long dry spell when today fails.

Yup.  And my last rain was 0.15 on June 24.  I have yet to see a good thunderstorm this whole season.  I don't want severe - just a good downpour with frequent lightning.  I get out of the desert for a week on the 21st to VA Beach.  I hope it produces one good thunderstorm.

8 hours ago, Jebman said:

Yes. The reason is simple.

My beloved Dad passed at 930pm on June 13 this year. He was 81. My mom, who resides in Texas, has been up here, we are cleaning up frantically, we will sell my home in Dale City where Dad and I lived together for over 20 years and then we will DRIVE to Buda Texas which is 1350 miles to the SSW of Dale City. Thus begins an entirely new life for yours truly. I am not sure what I will do with the rest of my life, lol. Find a freezer to live in, probably lol.

I will still be wishing heavy snows on the Mid Atlantic though. The Reaper will be out of work forever. You guys are going to get BURIED ALIVE this winter by extreme snows. This is a scientific forecast. My proof?

I will be gone, 1300 miles SSW. Washington is going to get totally destroyed by snow this winter. Bank on this.

Sorry for your loss.

I know a guy from here that retired to that area a couple years ago, and he loves it.  He is also sort of between Austin and San Antonio which are really cool cities.  Oh and you'll be in the path of the total solar eclipse  on 4/8/2024!  You'll have to take a short flight to Denver in winter for some awesome skiing.

On 7/4/2018 at 5:02 PM, BlizzardNole said:

Where's NPZ?!  Winchester at 4:35 PM was 70 degrees with winds at 38G44.  Radar looks real nice over Stephens City.

I would love some of that rain but I ain't holding my breath, not even for Friday.  I can see isolated t-storms today and tomorrow focused out west, then Friday forming just east and south.

 

Well I nailed that one.  One cell passed two miles south of me yesterday with nothing but sprinkles here.  And sure enough, LWX is saying the best rain today is in central VA to southern MD.  The Central MD Desert is in full effect now.  No rain for weeks and wont' get any today.  At least I'l have a cool weekend for all the extensive watering to be done.

Where's NPZ?!  Winchester at 4:35 PM was 70 degrees with winds at 38G44.  Radar looks real nice over Stephens City.

I would love some of that rain but I ain't holding my breath, not even for Friday.  I can see isolated t-storms today and tomorrow focused out west, then Friday forming just east and south.

I cannot wait for the cool Canadian air mass coming this weekend, but the Germantown desert is back and don't expect any rain over the next couple days or even Friday with the frontal passage.  Just 1.8" in the last 30 days here and I've got parched grass and large cracks in the garden beds.  Watering like crazy.

So jealous of that juicy little thundershower just sitting over the N. Potomac area about 10 miles south of me.  That must be so nice.

Man am I happy to be in OC where we have stayed around 85 yesterday and today with a little bit of a sea breeze.  This heat is so widespread with 90s well up into Quebec and Ontario; I found a 97/75 (HI 110) a couple hundred miles into Ontario.  A co-worker of mine is at some isolated lake in Quebec on a fishing trip this week and was looking forward to nice cool weather.  Ooops.

Looks like I'll see some action on the MARC train ride home from DC.  At least this time I won't get nailed on my walk to Union Station.  I tried waiting that one out last week by taking a later train, but it was still pouring when I left anyway LOL.

Raining hard and blowing in NE DC -- I'm gonna take a train 20 minutes later rather than get soaked.  I have an umbrella but that's not helping on the First Street canyon effect. 

** Oooh just had a ctg strike with thunder less than a second after -- must have been within a few hundred feet.

Might get more of that t-storm that I bargained for -- it looks to hit right as I am on my several block walk to Union Station.  

My wife said it looked pretty wild in Germantown.  LOL we get the rare strong thunderstorm and I'm not home (in DC at work). 

Whoa just looked -- heavy band sitting over central FredCo.  Ugly.

9 hours ago, Ellinwood said:

RIP

Yup.  Although before last night's 1.25 inch deluge (that's a deluge for my area), I was sitting at just 0.9 for the month.

Mad at myself for not cutting my approx. 8" high grass before the rain last night.  Uh oh.

Craziness up there!  MARC train service is cancelled today due to damage to the tracks -- we'll see if they get that fixed by tomorrow.  I learned a lesson to ALWAYS bring my work laptop home, not just on Thursday nights for Friday/Monday telework.  That thing is coming home every night from now on.

No more complaining about missing rain -- I got 1.25" here which is better than I ever expected.

LOL not a drop in Germandesert again.  Still at under an inch for the month and I say no significant rain here even through Friday.  What an amazingly arid microclimate.

1 hour ago, losetoa6 said:

Don't worry ...yours is coming

6z gfs


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I'll be shocked if I get one third that amount.  I am sitting at 0.9 for the whole month of May.

And after all of that I got 0.10 from the overnight activity.  LOL.

1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Tops on the WV cell just dropped ~15,000 feet...maybe a core collapse or re-cycling?

That happened to a severe thunderstorm near Orlando in 1992, and it dropped much of its hail in one place.  One area had like six inches of hail on the ground.

My wife was worried about storms with my son and 9 friends out for prom tonight but the Germantown thunderstorm shield came thru perfectly.  Big boomers over and NE of the Balt area and new ones popping over DC south.  Nothing here.  Yeah I'll be cussing soon when I'm watering cracked, parched garden beds, but this worked well for us tonight.

Very wet looking pattern over the next week.  Calling it now -- less than 0.5 total here thru 7 days.

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

This-

Audubon Torpedo Steel Squirrel Baffle 

Buy it on Amazon. Unless they jump down from a nearby tree, you will never see a squirrel hanging off your feeder again.

I have one of those on our 10-foot bird feeder pole and the squirrels have no chance.  We get a kick out of watching newbies try to beat that thing until they finally give up.

Just make sure the pole is at least 8 feet from any tree branches.

3 hours ago, Windspeed said:

 

 

 

That rain gauge in Caguas registering 35 inches of rain in 24 hours is insane. That is tucked in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain. I can't even imagine; that's really nothing short of terrifying.

 

 

Am I reading that right -- that Caguas got approx 10 inches in one hour between Sep 20 8:00 and 9:00?  OMG.

52 minutes ago, downeastnc said:

HWRF gives Puerto Rico a solid hit....

Stay away from PR and those Virgin Islands dirty cyclone!

Wow what a hurricane season.  They warned us it would be a bad one and they were right.  They have it around 90mph in the vicinity of PR -- watch it be way stronger.

I voted for PD1 - 1979.  I was in northern Calvert, which was the bullseye for that storm.  I don't know what the actual accum was with the extreme drifting, but DCA I think was 19" and the amounts were much heavier by the Bay so say 30-35".  The wind was UNBELIEVABLE, like 40 mph with gusts to 60.  It was like a hurricane of snow with howling winds and such whiteout that the woods just 75 feet behind the house were completely obscured at times.  One observer in the area later reported 6" in one hour that morning.

My mother and her friend who was stuck with us tried to walk the 100 feet to where the cars were and actually got disoriented.  They were legit scared when they got back saying that they almost got literally lost in the front damn yard!  My mom said it was hard to breathe with the snow and winds so extreme.

When it was over, cars were only lumps in the snow and we had 6-7 foot drifts.  One funny story is when my dad finally got his '74 Charger dug out, it would not start.  He opened the hood and found the whole engine compartment completely packed tight with snow.

I have of course seen some great storms in Germantown since 1995, but NOTHING for me can top the Great White Hurricane of 1979.

Just visiting to say hi -- I'm in Germantown but grew up in Owings (about 4 miles south of Dunkirk) so I am very familiar with how things go in the winter down there.  But it's fun when it goes the other way isn't it?  Remember the big January 25, 2000 storm?  I ended up with just 7" from that, but my parents and siblings who still live down there (Calvert and St Marys) got like 15-20" and they were all over me LOL!  I got lots of phone calls that day.  My best memory was the Blizzard of '79.  Northern Calvert was the jackpot in that monster.  It still tops all of the storms I've seen since in my new area, including 1996 and 2010.

I hope this Sunday night/Monday system takes a nice track and puts a swath of good snows west-to-east across the whole area.  Good luck!