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Rain has been less than a mile west from me for at least 6 hours. Barely a drizzle while it has poured nearly non-stop a stone's throw away. The next batch to the south has already formed to my east. This ****ing place.
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I could see the lightning from those storms.
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Picked up a whopping .5" yesterday evening over a 20 minute stretch. Not a drop overnight. This stretch of I-81 is safe, Jeb. Except maybe from dehydration.
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Forget the rain, just give me some clouds. Terrible forecast bust. 10F hotter than forecast, no rain, barely even any clouds all afternoon.
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Not a drop last night. FFW issued today. LOL.
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My yard is mostly brown. The drought is back. And as today's futility has proven, it's only getting stronger. Long live the Shenandaoh Valley Desert.
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Bingo.
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95 - 96 was 22 years ago..... we were due.
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Would be nice to be able to use my 3 year old snow blower for the 2nd time.
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Good news!
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I live just west of I-81. Bulk of that first storm went just east of it. We did get the second batch. Looked more impressive on radar than the ground truth on that one. Actually rained harder (very briefly) with the first storm that just clipped us. I'll have to check my rain gage when I get home. Nearest PWS (1 mile east or so from me) shows .60". Not sure what NWS was thinking about slow-moving cells; those things were trucking. In and out in a hurry.
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We are. But only got clipped by the first storm. 3 to 4 minute shower. Better chance is just south if it holds together over the next 5 miles or so.
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Odds are that those past floods didn't feature a foot of rain in 3 hours. Big difference in mechanisms for a general river flood vs. A flash flood event.
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Agree that the tenacity is probably somewhat magnified, but the root-cause is still topographical and meteorological. That much rain, and more, could never produce a raging torrent on pancake-flat ground like what is found on Delmarva. EC has hills upstream that funnel down to a major river, upon which they've built a town. Obviously, if there was no development, then there'd be nothing to be impacted, but there'd by a raging torrent headed downstream regardless.
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Yeah, not too many places on earth where 10 - 12 inches of rain in 3 hours is not going to cause big problems. This is another case of environmental alarm-ism. Not a fan of urban development, but to use that as the cause of the flooding and imply it a man-made disaster is ridiculous. The question that needs to be asked is how can EC, FDK, et al continue to rack up huge rain totals while I've yet to have a single-storm get me more than .7" this year. That is the issue that needs to be addressed.
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Jeez. How on Earth?
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I've been following. It's been crazy up your way. Hope it stays south of you for the rest of the night. Stay safe.
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Weather-generated tsunami... WTF? Finally got some rain. Just got a 20-minute downpour. Probably around .70, but not going out to check the gage. Far cry from just about every other location on the eastern seaboard. I mean, ****, some people had storms strong enough to cause a ****ing tsunami. I barely got enough to water my grass for one day, but at least it was enough to beat back some more pollen.
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LOL. I have yet to receive even 1 drop of rain. Unreal.
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2014 was the best weather year I can remember. As you noted, there were several continental air intrusions that summer. Not to mention a great winter to-boot (starting in Dec 2013). -
Oh yeah. Breezy, refreshingly cool/dry air-mass. High temps in the low 70s. People in sweatshirts and huddled under blankets for the fireworks. Lows dipped into the 40s that night out here. I remember actually being chilly that late-afternoon (in the shade) at a cook-out. DPs in the low/mid 40s. It felt like October. It was simply amazing, and every-bit as rare as a HECS. In fact, I'd argue it was more rare, and I enjoyed it every bit as much.
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IMO, the best event, and by a very-wide margin, was the July 4th Canadian air-mass of 2014. That was straight out of my dreams. I would rate that weather day as one of my top-5 weather events of any type in my lifetime.
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Here, it's pretty typical of every winter. I think my point was more how local the dryness has been. Most of the region has received significantly more, especially in Feb and Mar.
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I got a whopping 0.91" for March. 2.25" for the "wet" Feb. 1.67" for Jan. .40" for Dec. 1.10" for Nov. Drought has been constant here since the fall. Hell, it's pretty much never-ending here.
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Another gutter-cleaning downpour last night. Almost .04". Better head to Lowes and get the sand-bags!
