GATECH

Happy 4th of July everyone!  My plan for the day while smoking ribs then blowing sh!t up later…if you don’t know the story, Port City lost power during the derecho in 2012 and instead of tossing the lager they had brewing after they lost power they converted it to California Steam beer style ala Anchor Steam, one of my favorite, and original craft breweries in the US.  Have a great day everyone!

When was the last time we saw a tor warn for the district….

4 minutes ago, WeatherShak said:

It happened! Dropped 10 degrees!


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Yep!  98-88 in about 1 hr 30.   Amazing what a difference 10 degrees makes!

28 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Peaked at 97.5 here.  DCA’s river wind is comical.

Wtf!  How is DCA 91?!  I am at 98 with a HI of 114 and am closer to the river in a nicely wooded neighborhood.   Calling BS!

55 minutes ago, H2O said:

B swim meets should be canceled once ANY temp gets above 95. 

My Wife choose the wrong meet to be timer!  My Mom and brother live in Portland, OR, they went to the pool at 10am and it was already 101…so at least we ain’t there!

1 hour ago, H2O said:

The morning after a B meet is brutal. 32oz Gatorade and two propels later and I might be hydrated again. 

I feel your pain.   Who was the idiot that scheduled an 8am work meeting with his team. Oh, that was me.  

10 minutes ago, vastateofmind said:

Despite earlier watches/warnings, we got absolutely NUTTIN' in this corner of NoVA....which leads me to believe that poor @H2O and @GATECH are sweating off their nether regions right now at B swim meets on their respective neighborhood pool decks.    Still holding out hope for some rain and at least a little lightning/thunder with a slightly less punchier Round #2 moving in from the west.

At least it cooled down a bit with an outflow boundary…I will take my relief where I can get it!

4 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

Some sort of interference. There has been a lot of talk about it during prior precip events going back a year or so (or more). 

Well they should have gone for the extended warranty on that WSR-88d, maybe some one will give them a call about some options…

What’s that radar retur zooming in from the east?  Anti thunderstorm missiles?   

6 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Ahhh, yes....NVSL B meets! Being able to "let your hair down" a bit more because it's not an A meet. Laughing at the young parents screaming and cajoling like court jesters at the finishing side of the pool while their half-drowning "mini" swimmers are bobbing their way to that side. Judging or timing at least 37 heats of 8&U and 9-10...IN EACH AGE GROUP. Watching some father attempting to patch his iPhone into the sound system to pretend he's Calvin Harris, despite his Spotify playlist being the aural equivalent of "dadbod." Glaring at the parents who insist loudly they don't have time to help on deck, and yet somehow have the entire evening to sit on  said deck and gossip the night away. And, assuming you actually BEGIN at 6 p.m., ending the evening 4+ hours later soaked to the bone with your own sweat, in a mingling stench of sunblock, chlorine, greasy grill smoke and bad decisions (chiefly, allowing your kids to swim for the neighborhood pool team).

The worst thing about evening meets -- when they would merely be delayed and not outright canceled. Obviously, B meets are easier to call off, but I remember a relay carnival at some Springfield pool years ago, with several stacked lines of severe thunderstorms moving in just before the 6 p.m. start, of course! I lost count of the number of delays at some point...cuz we were all in various stages of passing out while stuck in our hot, fetid vehicles...but because relay carnival is an official and sacred division event, the show HAD to go on and we didn't finish until almost 11 p.m.   

Bitter, table for one, right over here!!   

Oh my @vastateofmindyou just encapsulated my entire Monday’s from now until end of July!  @H2O yes I am praying for storms, the damn swim team gave my son a cold who then passed it to me…93 with a box of tissues at the pool without adult beverages because I took Tylenol cold seems like just another kick in the head that I can’t deal with right now…One brilliant thing about COVID is that our pool makes spectators sit outside the pool area, a definite grayer area for beverage consumption, though in our neighborhood you are an outlier if you do not have said beverages!

Red solo cups scream that I am drinking adult beverages…you gotta us a yeti tumbler, you can almost fit an entire bottle of wine in that thing….or 4 beers!

Being DC, I bet this whole event will be a lemon…

Someone should do a study on the differences between grapefruit and softball sized hail…just sayin.

DCA 98

RIC 99

IAD 98

BWI 98

19 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Its more than a bay breeze. Been coolish and breezy with low dews all afternoon here.

Haven’t been paying attention for a while, because why, is this the back door cold front mentioned from earlier this week?

6 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Bay Breeze. 

It’s delightful, after hitting 90, now 78!  

What was that?  Sea breeze blowing through, east to west?  Was a delightful refreshment, temp dropped about 5 degrees in 20 minutes.

First day of pool season...plus some rib smoking!

First kill for ole Thunder.  One cicada down, billions to go...

Picked a fine day to go to a winery, 55 rain and hail here near Purcelville!  About to get pummeled...but at least wine!

2 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Are you pleased with the Tempest kit? How long installed? I've read about this a few times in recent months, and I'm intrigued...have thought about pulling the trigger on it once or twice, but haven't heard a lot of "real world" feedback.

I got it for Christmas and so far it’s been working pretty well.  Performance seems about as good as my old Davis Vantage pro 2 so far, that lasted 15 years though.  I have a terrible sighting problem, surrounded by large trees and houses, so wind readings aren’t great.  Was leary about the haptic rain sensor, but seems pretty good now compared to surrounding stations, they use some sort of AI to smooth out errors.  Couple of cool features, the UV sensor and lightening detector are cool, not sure how accurate they are but interesting to have.  For the cost, seems like a lot of bang for the buck.  Just have to see how long it lasts.  Also setup is a breeze!

I don’t like the look of that appendage, nothing special on the velocity to indicate anything else though

My weather flow getting a workout today, real first time to see the lightening detection feature in action.  I bit clunky, but better than nothing.

38 minutes ago, vastateofmind said:

Not sure why LWX is down, but for the record -- I don't care for the new NWS radar. It takes forever to load and I just don't like how it displays. I don't mean to sh*t on others' hard work, as I know they had to replace the legacy radar with something, but....

I now generally prefer to use Windy.com for radar if I'm at the laptop or, of course, Radarscope on mobile.

Yeah, not a fan either,  I use Radar Scope.  The old NWS radar was fine IMO.  I was a fan of the National mosaic display, but they even messed that up and its unusable now.  They should have a ‘classic’ feature, kinda like when they rolled out new coke...now I have dated myself.

found the problem with the LWX radar...

NOUS61 KLWX 040416
FTMLWX
Message Date:  May 04 2021 04:16:10

There is a pedestal problem with the WSR-88D. The radar will be down through the
 night. Technicians will be notified 7AM Tue morning.

Ugh. Feeling like mid July out there, 70 with a dew of 66.  Anyone know what’s wrong with the LWX radar?  Hasn’t updated since around midnight.