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  1. RDM
    Yup - same here. Good to hear some rumble... Nice line inbound that stretches all the way back to Charlotte and beyond. The fetch trails down through the GOM.
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    For those of us on the elder side who remember the show Hee Haw in the 60's and 70's, our wish casting in the MA region is akin to the old song in the cornfield with Roy Clark and Buck Owens... ".... If it weren't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair and misery on us all" Let's hope this year is "The Year" we'll all remember for the GOOD... not the bad and the ugly.
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    That line was pretty intense when it came through here too. Up to 2.05" for the event. Model forecasts did well on this one...
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    1.40" so far here near Vienna. Looks like several more hours of it. Really nice soaker - just what we needed around here.
  5. RDM
    Currently 42F and .21" for the day. A nice slow soaker like this will be good for the region, but if only a few degrees colder...
  6. RDM
    I hope I am way under... for everyone's sake. BWI: 36.4 DCA: 24.2 IAD: 43.8 RIC: 18.6 Tiebreaker - SBY: 26.3
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    No shortage of wind and low temps a few days ago in Northern China on the border of Mongolia.
  8. RDM
    Can see flakes out in Garrett Co. on several of the traffic cameras here... https://deepcreektimes.com/other-area-webcams/garrett-county-state-highway-webcams/
  9. RDM
    Down to 42 here NW of Vienna. Feels great outside.
  10. RDM
    Thanks for that. Interesting gradient between the dark red blotch IVO of Vienna/Tysons and the light green rain hole IVO Dulles/Leesburg.
  11. RDM
    1.98" yesterday and 1.16" since midnight. Other than a few spells, the rate was mostly a steady soaker, which we needed. Our area around Vienna missed most of the t-storms a couple weeks ago.
  12. RDM
    1.47" so far - From the looks of the bowling ball rolling northward through Richmond would guess I-95 would not be the place to be this evening.
  13. RDM
    Indeed - Just took the trash out to the street on our weekly Thursday evening ritual. (Our driveway is 500ft long). It's an awesome night out.
  14. RDM
    93 here but feels nice outside in the shade with a slight breeze. Doesn't feel like the dp is 70.
  15. RDM
    Hope your power is restored soon. Our power flickered about 10 times over a couple mins when the initial line came through. Likely due to trees contacting the lines. Normally, the breakers allow 3 or 4 spikes before the breakers trip as a safeguard (according to a Va Power lineman). So it appears we got lucky. Many weren't as fortunate.
  16. RDM
    Just picked up almost 3x more with this line than with the initial batch that came through at 17:30.
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    Received just shy of 2" from both rounds this evening. Lawyers Road NW of Vienna near our home flooded again. Happens anytime we get more than 1.5" in an hour. However, this time FFCO Police didn't close the road like they normally do. Was a precarious situation with the road completely under water and low visibility. Had a white water rescue at the same spot a few years ago when a SUV was washed off the road.
  18. RDM
    That was a brief but intense gullywasher a while ago. Received .69" in about 10 mins. A bit of wind too.
  19. RDM
    Currently 3 tornado warnings in nrn Ohio and NW PA. Not good.
  20. RDM
    1. Blizzard of 78 in Ohio and the wind and flash freeze. Will never forget the unrelenting wind. Only got about 14" of snow, but the wind closed everything around us for days until the snow blowers from Wright Patterson AFB and Dayton Airport got out into the remote areas to clear a path through the drifts. Almost became a desperate situation when the grocery stores ran out of food. Was an awaking to how precarious our supply chain dependencies are. 2. 2016 and having 33" in our backyard. 3. 18/19 Dec 2009 - Best birthday present ever and awesome welcome home gift from 3 years in Thailand and no snow. 4. 1990 in Sas Fee Switzerland - 3 meters in 3 days - thunder snow followed by howitzer shots to reduce the avalanche risk. Roads were closed for days - and the Swiss were like "no big deal".
  21. RDM
    76F/71dp at 0740am - argh...
  22. RDM
    Ended up with a pretty quick .65" out of this line... Were shut out by the earlier round late afternoon.
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    Pouring here atm - picked up .5+ in 15 mins. Nice display outside too.
  24. RDM
    Yup was in Baghdad a lot in 2003/04. Had several events where the visibility was 1-200 yds at best - could taste it and it didn't taste good. Was like talcum powder - got into everything. Was hell on anything mechanical, like the diesel generators. Couldn't keep the filters clean.
  25. RDM
    We have one (or more) pileated woodpeckers that hang out around our home. Saw one down at ground level attacking the soft spot at the base of a white pine tree in our front yard. Got within 20 feet of him as he was digging at something. Amazing how big they are up close. And those eyes - wow. Can often hear him pounding away on a calm evening from the entire neighborhood. When he gets going on a hollow tree the reverberation echos like a drum. Have some smaller woodpeckers also in our area. They love attacking the cedar trim on our home. They've done a lot of damage over the years. Small buggers only about 5 or 6 inches tall, but very effective at what they do.
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