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It's a pulse-y line, but all it takes is getting under one cell. These things are putting down the goods.

2nd round of "I can hear the rain from inside" type of rates in progress.

Straight up monsoon outside rn. Maybe the heaviest downpour I've seen since I moved here. This will help the water table here, no question about that.

Got rain shadow'd a bit yesterday. The combo of the Catoctin's up the street from me and the valley down the street, is a force. Side note...DESI (ensemble scenarios) was mentioned at the AMS meeting yesterday (I was fortunate to attend this via work). The stats part seems pretty user-friendly so far... https://sites.gsl.noaa.gov/desi/?x4dLocations=["City"]&chart=x1d&lat=39.41427&lon=-77.41054&theme=dark&timeZone=local&hourFormat=12&x4dviewState={"latitude"%3A40.5%2C"longitude"%3A-100%2C"bearing"%3A0%2C"pitch"%3A20%2C"zoom"%3A4}&dset=HREF-CONUS&clusHghlgt=true&x4dMapStyle=2D&x4dMaps={"basemap"%3A{"value"%3A"Mapbox"}%2C"mapboxBasemap"%3A{"value"%3A"Satellite"%2C"parentValue"%3A"mapboxBasemap"}}&preferredFontSize=14

Got invited to the ams community conference today. First time attending one of these. Interesting discos centered around data/AI and topping off with how to improve nwp as well as public/private collaboration.

I got snookered here, too. Did better the day before.

Clumpy, tropical raindrops in progress.

Pretty healthy cg lightning nearby.

Getting mostly fringed so far today. It’s rained but not much.

Overall, this type of ULL is better for our areas…get that moisture banked up against the lee side of the mountains instead of getting skipped over.

Just heard some thunder in the distance. This is my kinda day...absolutely primo basketball weather (unusual to have such little breeze in Frederick) and enough sun/humidity to fuel storms with a nice vort passage. I'd take this 6 months out of the year, easily.

Beautiful weather so far today.

All it does now is rain.

Luckin' out so far. Another round incoming. Regional-wide rains are kinda uncommon this time of year...we just haven't even had enough hit/miss opps.

Productive downpour moving through. Obviously, it won't amount to much since it's quick moving, but might be a 0.25-0.5" type.

That next vort dropping in from the Midwest by Saturday looks intriguing (albeit weakening on approach)...prime trajectory with a stagnant airmass leading into it.

Spicy and humid today, but kinda getting used to it. Would be cool to snag a storm the next few days. Too much water vapor to leave untapped.

Fruitful rain event here.

Might get blobbed here. Hearing thunder in the distance now.

I’m not kidding when I say that the 270 split is a precip magnet.

The lack of any actual, significant storms that target our region is a thing, and it's been a thing for about 2 years now. I was just thinking recently about how we seem to excel at clouds and scattered vorts that basically do nothing once they get past the mountains. I wonder if it's a product of an overactive Pacific/northern stream and a jet stream that's been too far north.

Planning to see it tonight, actually lol.

Outstanding humidity today...if we don't get at least 0.5" of rain over the next 2 days, then we're not good at weather anymore.

Looks like another round incoming. How much tbd

Split has caved.