BlizzardNole

I'm looking forward to the next few days of very nice weather, but going into that dry heatwave next week after having no rain since August 7 is not good.  LWX making a mention of how bad things are getting:

Another point of concern is the ongoing drought from the Shenandoah
Valley up into central MD and eastern WV. With this prolonged period
of dry and hot conditions, this may only continue to get worse. In
addition, with the low RH values and hot temperatures, fires will be
quick to ignite, especially in the early to middle portions of
next week.

Flood watch for the northern Shenandoah Desert including Winchester area -- we'll see!

I've had no rain since August 8 and don't expect any this week or any time soon.  The 90s and dry next week will finish a lot of stuff off.

Jrlg, This is another snip from that 90-day rainfall departure map -- your area is so dry yet not too far to your south is way above normal.  Same here!  I do have 2.2 for August but nothing since August 8.

This snip from the 90-day departure from UMD's Rainfall Departure Map shows the stark disparity of rainfall within just Mont Co, from 3-4 inches above in the far south to -2 inches and worse in the north and west.  And I can say it's wayyy worse than -2 in my spot.  Crazy!

Got caught in that heavy shower earlier right near ICC / I-270.  It was heavy enough that everyone had the hazards on and were going 20 mph.  Family was saying "we're getting some good rain!" and I'm like uh wait 'til we get home.  Well Germandesert dodged it again with barely enough to wet the ground and not measureable in the gauge.  The Drought of 2023 lives on

Our neighbors gave us some tomatoes from their garden and they are about the best we've ever had!  We were wondering if it was the dry summer and now we know!

3 hours ago, 87storms said:

Looks like it’s gonna round the base of that building heat dome/Omega Block. Meanwhile, no substantial precip on the horizon here through early next week.

That's why I was so bummed to get zero rain from this past Sunday-Tuesday.  I have not received a trace of rain since August 7 and there's nothing in sight!

Very nice morning out with upper 60s and calm.

TC Hilary means business for the southern CA desert with widespread 5-7 inch amounts with lollies of 7-10

Now my zone has a FF watch and a severe TS watch in effect.  Hilarious  

Edit:  just walked around the yard a bit and it is hard as rock.  I need to give up some of the plants I like next year and go with more drought tolerant stuff. 

Blazing sun and 88

LOL not again.  If I had a buck every time I'm under a FF watch I could put it towards all the watering I'm doing

I've  never seen a rainfall disparity as extreme as this year.  The same places get it over and over while others are dry as a bone.  Some spots got more rain in an hour yesterday than you two got in the last two months.  The drought is a little less severe here than your locations but I got nothing out of yesterday/last night from the high chance and heavy rain wording, again.  Now there is no chance for any rain for a very long time to come

Hardly anything here and now tonight is looking dry.  Oh well sprinklers running tomorrow morning on schedule

Wishing today was my in-office day in DC so I could see this.  Another split for good ol' Germandesert

6 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

oh right- wasn't it the last Niño where December was warmer than November (at least in NYC)?

I remember the strong Nino in fall 2015 -- we turned on the damn AC at Christmas because it was so warm and humid and were talking about how it won't snow a flake in the upcoming winter.  But then we got destroyed 

7 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Nope.  Died on my door step.  It literally was like someone turned off the lightning with a switch.  It went from strobing to zero just as soon as the first drops began to fall.  Amazing.  Got some drizzle and light rain and that's it.

It's tough being in an orographic rain shadow!  You need a post-tropical system moving up from the gulf with NW-ward moving training bands.  Might be tough to get one of those with a building Nino in place.

Surprised to see these pop ups this afternoon.  Hoping for good rain tomorrow

I was oggling the 110-117 degree heat index readings in south FL and found this (bad reading but wild to look at).  Beach day?

0.7 from this round to go with the 1.0 from last night.  If we can can round it off to 2.0 with the second round of showers it will be a great 24 hours!

5 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Latest HRRR brings one last course (dessert round) through the area around 7-8pm, though that probably falls into the TBD category.

Really hoping for that one as I want more rain out of this.  Lightning is delivering though!

11 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

Bowing segment headed towards Germantown looks like it means business. 

Nice heavy downpour for a few minutes and some good lightning but no wind.  Already winding down.  I hope we get a second round from the stuff developing in eastern WV

That whole initial line skipped me -- hoping for the one moving NE thru Poolesville.  SW to NE works for me -- lots of lightning in that one

40 minutes ago, Wxtrix said:

the Hagerstown storm from my back deck:

 

Off-topic but what a nice looking property!

That line is really starting to congeal together now as it moves east

25 minutes ago, nj2va said:

I'm good if DC stays under clouds all day - don't want severe after last weekend.

I am hoping for a couple rounds of good thunderstorms with heavy rain and lots of lightning, bonus if second round is at night.  But I don't want damaging severe.  I've experienced baseball size hail twice (1978 and 1992) and I don't ever want to see that again

0.9 from the showers tonight and even better that was spread over several hours instead of all at once.  Perfect!

Hope some dry places really cash in tomorrow

Got about 0.2.  Hoping for more later

5 minutes ago, yoda said:

Should be raining right now for you per Radarscope 

Yes nice little shower moving thru.  Hoping to get a lot of that tonight

Nice band moving into the DC area