poolz1 Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 around 6am or so? yeah, i saw it yesterday. I assume birds. Yes...I can’t say that it has happened every day but most mornings here recently it has. I agree, it has to some type of wildlife. Strange tho that birds would fan out in a perfect circle....Maybe they are scrambling to bulk up before the bay freezes over in December!Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 A slightly smokey sunset this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 3 hours ago, poolz1 said: Yes...I can’t say that it has happened every day but most mornings here recently it has. I agree, it has to some type of wildlife. Strange tho that birds would fan out in a perfect circle.... Maybe they are scrambling to bulk up before the bay freezes over in December! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk They don’t fan out in a circle, it is the angle of the radar beam that makes it look like that. As the birds go up in altitude the intersection of the beam with the birds gets further away from the radar, making it look like a circle when applied to a flat plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolz1 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 They don’t fan out in a circle, it is the angle of the radar beam that makes it look like that. As the birds go up in altitude the intersection of the beam with the birds gets further away from the radar, making it look like a circle when applied to a flat plane.Gotcha...didn’t know that. That certainly makes more sense ...rather than mysterious bird circles in the sky. LolSent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 8/1 .50" 8/2 .15" 8/3 3.10" 8/5 .10" 8/6 T 8/7 T 8/8 .25" 8/11 T 8/12 .10" 8/13 .05" 8/17 .75" 8/18 .25" 8/21 1.40" (.4 in the early AM, 1" in evening T-storm) Total: 6.60" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Stepped outside and for the first time in a while said "hey, it's nice this morning" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 13 hours ago, poolz1 said: Yes...I can’t say that it has happened every day but most mornings here recently it has. I agree, it has to some type of wildlife. Strange tho that birds would fan out in a perfect circle.... Maybe they are scrambling to bulk up before the bay freezes over in December! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk was gonna explain why it looks that way, but i see mntransplant already did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Finally some air without humidity!!! Next couple days gonna be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolz1 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 59 minutes ago, mappy said: was gonna explain why it looks that way, but i see mntransplant already did. Last comment about the birds...I promise. If you look at COD radar on 48 frames you can see several of these circles and they look to line up with the Susquehanna river up to Harrisburg. I'll see if I can find a bird forum for future posts...I'm sure the folks in there will have as good of a sense of humor as this place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 10 minutes ago, poolz1 said: Last comment about the birds...I promise. If you look at COD radar on 48 frames you can see several of these circles and they look to line up with the Susquehanna river up to Harrisburg. I'll see if I can find a bird forum for future posts...I'm sure the folks in there will have as good of a sense of humor as this place. There is a very small field of researchers that use radar and other remote sensing to analyze animal movement (mostly birds/bats). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroecology 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakkelWx Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 In Virginia right now near Dulles airport for a small two day trip. Tomorrow I'm going with family to the air and space museum and some exploring. I think the national weather service Sterling is only 3 miles away.. I might send some pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolz1 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 14 minutes ago, losetoa6 said: It was 52 at 6am . I could see my breath...lol I just took a deep breath and took it all in. My kind of morning . 53 here this morning. Felt like a fall fishing morning....On the water with sweatshirts and stocking caps at 7am and T-shirts and sunblock by noon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Low here was 57. Going to enjoy the next day or so before the heat ridge builds again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 54 at my house this morning. Next week looks brutally hot. End of week looks humid and nasty. Can't wait until October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 73f high yesterday, 55f low this morning . Wonderful. Next week will be a rude awakening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 It's okay. It's still summer. The brutal heat of next week will come & Go. Better times ahead. Got down to 55 degrees this morning. Heated up awfully quick though. I think yesterday was a nicer day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Great weekend. Hot this week, but not absurdly so (as always, ignore the GFS surface temps). The sun going down earlier is getting really noticeable now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 2 hours ago, MN Transplant said: Great weekend. Hot this week, but not absurdly so (as always, ignore the GFS surface temps). The sun going down earlier is getting really noticeable now. Hopefully this means we can ignore the GFS surface temps during winter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Nasty out IMBY! 90 degrees! Dp 78(insanity) - Heat index had bounced between 103 and 105! YUCK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Definitely hot in Charlottesville. Wouldn’t call it comfortable at all, gets sweaty real fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Oh Man! It is obnoxious now! DP hit 80!!!! 91 degrees! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Booming thunder here from a storm that looks on radar to be at least 10 air miles away. Trajectory suggests a miss, but this sounds like a pretty potent cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 30 minutes ago, losetoa6 said: That one looks to give Hagerstown some relief. Why did I think I would get missed ? Nothing has missed here since early May. Getting dumped on again, with some gusts to 40. Temp down to 78. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherLovingDoc Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Hello americanwx experts! Will someone please post a model addressing the temperatures/weather over the next 5 to 7 days? What is it going to be like? That's why we come here to americanwx in part. Not just for storms, but for warnings and weather! Tyvm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 With a little over half-an inch today, I am at 8.97" for the month. Which makes it the wettest month I have measured since moving to this location in August 2006. Four of the top seven months have happened since May. 1) 08/2018: 8.97" 2) 07/2017: 8.85" 3) 04/2011: 8.78" 4) 06/2018: 8.10" 5) 06/2014: 7.93" 6) 05/2018: 7.58" 7) 07/2018: 7.34" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRWx's Thanks Giving Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, WeatherLovingDoc said: Hello americanwx experts! Will someone please post a model addressing the temperatures/weather over the next 5 to 7 days? What is it going to be like? That's why we come here to americanwx in part. Not just for storms, but for warnings and weather! Tyvm. I'm confused what you're asking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 13 hours ago, WeatherLovingDoc said: Hello americanwx experts! Will someone please post a model addressing the temperatures/weather over the next 5 to 7 days? What is it going to be like? That's why we come here to americanwx in part. Not just for storms, but for warnings and weather! Tyvm. To be honest, we mostly just discuss high-end events here and otherwise banter around. For actual forecasts, go here: https://www.weather.gov/lwx/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/?utm_term=.ba5dba83440d There are a whole bunch of sites that have the various models, my favorites are: http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/ https://weather.us/model-charts/euro/virginia/ If you only want the raw numbers: http://coolwx.com/cgi-bin/getbufr.cgi?region=VA&stn=KDCA&model=nam&time=current&field=2meter 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Late August heat and humidity always feels worse to me somehow. I know we had hotter days earlier this summer, but, man, just took a walk four blocks to my bank downtown and it was absolutely brutal in Baltimore City. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice-Regent Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 28 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: If by high-end you mean tropical remnants during hurricane season, gusty showers during severe season, and moisture starved clippers during winter, you're spot on. You will love the 2040's climatology I think. Just hang in there you won't be disappointed my man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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