SouthboundYank

Yep. We did several hours of yard work this afternoon, when it peaked at 87, well beyond the forecasted high. My wife and I were sweating our keisters off...

I'm curious...why is that cloud shield for the Staunton and Harrisonburg storms extending so far south and east, ahead of the actual storms hitting (or getting ready to hit) those areas? It's also reflected on the GOES16 depiction. Haven't seen anything like that...maybe ever.

75/61...with just the lightest kiss of drizzle for about 3 minutes as we finished our big doggo walk right around 6 p.m.

About the same. Winds picked up and clouds lowered a good bit between noon and 2 p.m. Just had about 5 min worth of sprinkles...with jives with current radar. Winds picking up a bit again...but waiting for these clouds to move out, and then I'm gonna set up the pellet wood stove on the back patio so that Mrs. V and I can share a decent IPA next to the fire in awhile...and maybe a roasted marshmallow or two.

Precip %'s between Wed and today in that timeframe have gone from 40-50% to just 20% tomorrow afternoon in these neck of the woods. Selfishly I'm a bit glad...I can do the big weekend dog walk tomorrow AM...but wow, I didn't think that the rain chances would diminish THAT much that soon. Ahhh, well.

52 for the low. Some high clouds streaming east right now but an otherwise perfect morning.

Y'all are gonna have GREAT windows-open temps up there tonight...

70/58..heading out for the four mile doggo walk under increasingly blue skies. Good thing it's perfect lawn mowing weather...cuz there's a lot to do. And yeah, @CAPE...maybe even more than the shorter days, I mind the lowering sun angle on our journey towards late Dec. With the front of the house facing due south, our back patio gets mostly full sun at the height of summer...but now the shadow of the house is gradually extending toward the yard again and putting more and more patio in full shade.

Yeah, watching with semi-interest...currently 71/66 IMBY. Radar looks a whole helluva lot more interesting to the west than I anticipated it to be this afternoon.

Received .84" since this time yesterday morning, and we've had a heavy drizzle since daybreak. We haven't enjoyed a more enjoyable night of stormy wx living here more than we did last evening -- occasional lightning flashes, long rolling waves of thunder, a steady (though not flooding) rain, from pretty much dinnertime yesterday until the early morning hours. Sublime.

Yeah. My wife just got off work in the Hayfield area about 20 min ago and asked me if she had time to make a return at Springfield Town Center. Since the storm was mostly stationary around Centreville (based on radar at that point) I said, SURE! Now the T&L and heavier rain has quickly built in SE from the Centreville storm and STC (and her) are probably smack dab in the middle of it. Boy...am I gonna hear about THAT one.

Same...we actually had a little thundery preview just before 9 a.m. and then the stronger cell that just nicked mattie just passed through here. Trying to figure out if that cell currently over Tysons is going to develop southward for Round #3 this morning -- I wouldn't be surprised, as the sky has that cheesy, yellow/grey-ish look all around us still.

Indeed..we had a 30-40 min hard/steady rain...maybe it'll green things up come tomorrow, but it was certainly enough to wash the dust off my car.

Same! Some "soothing" thunder along with some gusty winds and a somewhat impressive gully-washer shot of rain...SOLD! Made it home from my "workday on post" at Fort Belvoir, with about 2 min to spare to race around the back patio covering all of the furniture and grill, stowing the electricals (e.g., fan, speakers), etc. It would probably be a pretty funny video if someone had been filming me...

I know, right? Damn...it's raining to beat the band right now!

Awesome pic...caught a very similar shot, when we were driving into Santa Fe, NM last August...popup showers all over the place and looked very similar!

Kinda forgot it was the first day of school...our kids are long gone from FCPS. But it was still kind of a weird day for us, as my wife -- who retired from FCPS in summer 2023 -- was invited by a few folks at her former school to apply for an afternoon PT job for one more year, which she did, and she got the job. She's actually happy to be back doing "a little something" again. I guess golf lessons and pickleball just wasn't satisfying enough...not to mention being home with ME while I telework. Personally, I can't imagine feeling that way after MY first year of retirement (commencing in March 2026!)...but we'll see.

LOL.."I got a rock." But yeah, seriously, the storms split north/south on either side of us over the past two days. Thought for sure we'd get knicked by that complex barreling through MD last evening, but no bueno. To your other point...we have LOTS of trees in distress, even after Debby's visit last weekend...so many leaves "browned out" on younger and mature trees alike around my yard, and our largest oak is dropping a ton of leaves already. Finally, @aldie 22 nailed it -- we are gonna have a SPECTACULAR weather week once we get past today.

Yeah...the Stanardsville to Culpeper line completely fizzled out here in NoVA over the past 1-2 hours. Second line back in the valley...looks pretty on radar right NOW, but I'm not gonna count on that NOT holding together until it gets here. Honestly...that "watch" light on my wx radio really needs to outen itself right now.

Yep, looking a bit split-ish right now on radar...although, if that Frederick-to-Reston complex decides to extend to the south in any sort of way, my 'hood might be grazed.

So my wife and I did the cross-country driving trip to Grand Canyon and back to NoVA last July/August. We drove from west TX into NM, and then into AZ...which was pretty much rock and desert...and then, just before we turned off of I-40 to go north to the Grand Canyon...we rode through the OASIS of Flagstaff, AZ. As East Coasters...it was such a relief to see pine trees, and deciduous trees...and TREES, at all. Flagstaff was a very pretty area.

Mrs. V and I took the usual 4-5 mile walk this AM and yeah...it definitely felt more humid. But also cloudier, so it was more bearable...but barely. I need to get my arse out there right now to do the front lawn, before those storms to our south/west work their way up into SE FfxCo! So, @CAPE...you've talked in previous years about how your "back 40" would be swampy (or not) and more mosquito-infested (or not)...how did that go during this somewhat DRIER year? You always seem to have a variety of challenges on your property, depending on how much rain we do, or do not get.

Yeah...thought my front windows were just filthy after last Friday's tropical rains, but no. It's definitely MUCH hazier out there than it was a couple hours ago. Did this really come from wildfires, as someone up above mentioned??

Yep, steady rain here for past 30 min. Surprising. But also about ready to stop. We'll take it.

Again, my middling precip totals in SE FfxCo don't matter...it's so good to see some of these pics and official measurements to our west...for the folks who needed it the most.