BlizzardNole

1 hour ago, losetoa6 said:

Don't worry ...yours is coming

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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.

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!