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Stunning to see that widespread area of 15”+ and nws radar does not have a higher color value. The one feeder to the north has been drowning the same area for hours. Anyone been under that? The last hourly total showed some 3-4” in an hour. doesnt this kind of rain just penetrate way down and saturate the soils with lingering problems that are rare and hard to solve?

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Overall this was good August was a bit hotter than I thought, June and July almost perfect at around +1. 35 90+ for JJA which is higher than my 30 call but still a B. Very wet summer was right on, an A. Interesting for August that 94 was the high(98 for the season) and over 50% of highs were 90 or 91 in August not a hot summer really by most evaluation standards . Tropics still unfolding as we watch Florence. Been back about 9 months and thank you for that. My mistake was to mix politics with weather. I have a separate site now for politics. I should not have let my love for weather get messed up by political stuff, it damaged a number of fine relationships that had developed due to weather. I will never forget about 8 of us standing outside in Pulaski at midnight with a heavy lake squall right over us. i think this winter is showing a lot of positive signs and will have KA and my winter outlook in about 2 weeks

Trying To send photos from Baltimore stadiums around 7:30pm. Low clouds, black and swirling but no funnel. Radar seems to indicate an area 5 miles west of stadiums got 3-4” in one hour?

I like above average precipitation but still ironing out temps.

How can DCA report thunderstorms for two hours and zero rain? Is that “thunderstorm in the area” if so that’s trying to have it both ways. They vigorously defend their high temps and low snowfall as being accurate for that exact spot. So unless it is thunder storming right over them they should not report it because like they say”we are not measuring for 2 to 10 miles away but rather right on this exact spot”

Those mins are some stellar snow times

I was off a bit on the timing of the heat, I said Mid July to early/mid August and it was very late June to near mid July but I did have it right that heat would not be dominant and in fact short lived i told Larry C I did not think his 2010-12 comparatives would be right and Doug K went hot also. i think this winter will be wet also, possibly preceded by a dry October and November. Temps still working on

This outlook has been good at the 2/3rd point. Even wetter than I thought and I did emphasize wet. Fronts have continued to make it south more and targets for summer moisture Temperatures not very hot although the very late June to almost mid July heat wave was more persistent than I thought ; maybe 5 in a row 90+ but not as many as we did have . Think have 20 90+ so far so have to wait for that.

You are great and what you did here will be missed

Dozen analogs right now and will get pared down.. Very few baddies.

I think 8/33 is the storm that cut the inlet in OC

We are st a special place for DC and Balt. Beats the earlier this year deluge and evokes legitimate 2006 talk although currently still inferior

Got hit in Wheaton and Beltsville with some torrential 0.5 in 15 minutes. Question earlier about what torrential is. When the wipers are on high speed and still really not working, that’s torrential. When your rear window looks like the car wash or a river of water rolling down it, that’s torrential. Sheets of rain that look almost like little waves going rapidly across the highway, that’s torrential. Perfectly cleared modern gutters being overwhelmed, that’s torrential There are more. Please offer.

Another big lightning maker in central PG Bright moon in western sky. Towering lightning makers just to my east. Unreal visual

Another 2-3”ph drowning got 0.4 in 15 minutes and stil moderate-heavy but not torrential

Went from zip to downpour

BWI broke a daily rainfall record from 1887, 131 years ago. Who ever has blown this event off needs to go back to weather first grade

1.1” in 30 minutes. Gutters clear but still overwhelmed

Two record rain events several days apart for DCA in the dog days!

Pourification has returned 3”ph rate, lasted12 mins, 0.5”

Analogs are setting up nice so far

2.9” here and BWPkwy was scary with trees bent over in driving waves of super heavy rain and gusts. I heard some trees did come down on it

Another front moving thru tonight and by Friday we may not hit 70 Outlook holding up for June and will see if by mid July we dry up and heat up some. Did have that hot Monday but very few 90+ so far

I think what we have been getting is what we will get, rainy and humid but not very hot This pattern of cool fronts making inroads further south than typical continues thru June and into July Then we do get hotter and drier for 30 days then by early-mid August more of the same of rainy and not hot. I think JJA will have rain fall no less than +5” from seasonal norms Nightime mins will keep temperatures slightly plus for the summer but daytime highs will not be hot, I predict Thirty 90+ readings Wet Mays continuing into June mostly don’t lend to scorchers , some of our very hot summers since 2010 were already well underway by late May and early June Tropics pretty busy with 12-15 named storms and 4 majors