Kay

82/78  9:30 am soup

Inch of welcome rain. T&L, not too much wind. 

4 minutes ago, Kay said:

That was short-lived, box now east

Rain

Now inside new warning box, here we go.

13 minutes ago, Kay said:

Phone just went off for tornado warning, I'm a little south

That was short-lived, box now east

Rain

Phone just went off for tornado warning, I'm a little south

2 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

New AQ alert levels for MD.

There it is. Yuck. "Very unhealthy for the general population"

I remember a tire smell here in 2023. Revolting out. Hope everyone can stay in as much as life permits.

Getting dark early like a fall day. 

It's pretty smoky locally. My throat feels scratchy. 

24 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Wonder if those two boundaries over Montgomery/Howard will do anything today?

Posted up in Columbia for the day and night, remaining vigilant

Power restored yesterday mid-day or so. In the evening I went past a long line of utility trucks along route 40, where I had posted earlier about a mile + stretch of poles that were mangled in one way or another, and they were getting toward the end of it.

Oh man, storms coming for this area againnn but hopefully the most intense keeps SE. Route 40 power lines can't take anymore lol.

high in the low 80s tomorrow sounds mighty good to me 

13 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Omg, I’m sorry…terrible timing given the heat.

Thank you. But also - I did it. I checked into a hotel. It is full of local people like me doing the same thing.

7 hours ago, Kay said:

Power still out. Ton of BGE outages in Harford, reducing but very slowly. I went out to get coffee and survey, saw trees and limbs down all around. Sticks and leaves plastered everywhere. Did not see any trees on wires on my route and only one partial roadblock, on my street, but could drive around. 

0.49" total

Haha, I was on the wrong route this morning. Just went through route 40 around route 543 and there were poles and wires all askew everywhere for like 1.5 mi. I was driving but noticed one obvious place on wires, but a bunch of poles just effed up in various ways

Still no power. Estimated back tomorrow evening atm but you never know, sometimes BGE manages expectations I think then gets done sooner. Over 16K "customers" affected still in Harford, the most anywhere, still a lot of outages all over.

Power still out. Ton of BGE outages in Harford, reducing but very slowly. I went out to get coffee and survey, saw trees and limbs down all around. Sticks and leaves plastered everywhere. Did not see any trees on wires on my route and only one partial roadblock, on my street, but could drive around. 

0.49" total

21 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

Understood.  Not trying to cause issues.  So many topics in wx are inexorably tied together, it's not always easy to parse things out neatly.  And sometimes discrete topics discussed together are relevant and provide value.  Yes, I know that is subjective, but that's par for the course.

Lots of us meander especially when it's slow, I'm not being a topic cop so much as saying with that particular topic, no matter what one's stance, eventually a weary mod will come along and ask you to go to the dedicated subforum. edit: because it tends to take over, not because no one understands things are tied together

My power is out and I have no AC. It's actually not that bad and so far I have been able to avoid knee jerk emotional reactions and human fallacies but FOR HOW MUCH LONGER?

22 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

I think we can all agree that the hype and gloom/doom everywhere is a problem.  Find some common ground on an issue/debate, and work from there.

If we do not quantify a problem/issue properly, then how are we supposed to handle/address it properly?  Resources and $$ are finite/limited, and we know wasteful spending/graft are rife.  You are not going act the best way if you are fired-up and we are fighting among ourselves!

Emotional, knee-jerk reactions to problems/issues almost always end up counterproductive.  Perhaps not at first, but the long-term, and the long-term is what counts.  But it is a challenge for all of us to think more iong-term and in the abstract b/c we want solutions and things fixed now!  Shortcoming and fallacies of human nature always are there causing their own problems.  But realizing/understanding this as a base, make discussions/debates better IMHO.

We can agree. Snowenoutthere, a college student, wrote eloquently about rejecting this type of nihilism. I don't know who you're arguing with here but you keep trotting this out, a bit like a strawman, which is a..you know what. Anyway there's a separate forum for this whole discussion and I'm probably about to get in trouble. Why don't you share your take on the science there (not the nihilism, we get that).

34 minutes ago, Kay said:

It's been rocking, plenty of wind, power out sadly.

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It's been rocking, plenty of wind, power out sadly.

Today is the first I've heard of experimental WoFS guidance but I like it already because you can pronounce WoFS

1 minute ago, Wxtrix said:

whiteout of wind-driven rain, and the streetlights all came on. we have had a storm like this in a while.

You're getting the goods. Looking at all that lightning on radarscope.

43 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Any objections to posting the storms and heat obs into this thread for at least today?

+1