July Discobs 2025

[scope1]

Only a few drops of rain at the house but  went for a quick drive earlier and there was a downpour only a few minutes drive away especially towards downtown McLean. Also was in Richmond yesterday and they were getting rocked, very heavy rain and tons of lightning/loud thunder. Some flooding on roadways out that way, a flash flood warning was issued. 

[snowfan]

Was driving east on 32 a bit ago and was able to match up these two cells on radar. 
 

 

[87storms]

So are we just hoisting flood watches when it's humid now?  Pretty sure not a single drop as fallen here.

[snowfan]

18z 3K wants to bring a cluster of storms into the metro area tomorrow evening. 

[WVclimo]

Getting some frequent vivid lightning from storms 20 miles to my north in PA.  Must be rocking there.

[H2O]

Bust day 2 for storms. Plenty of thunder around me but no storms on me

[Eskimo Joe]

34 minutes ago, 87storms said:

So are we just hoisting flood watches when it's humid now?  Pretty sure not a single drop as fallen here.

If you get under one of these cells, it's intense. I received 0.64" of rain in 15 min from a cell today. Also, some of the mesonet soil moisture probes are showing fully saturated soils. For example, our flood sensor on Cabin John Branch at Bradley Blvd showed a 5 foot rise in 40 minutes on Saturday. If that storm over Potomac persisted for another 20 to 30 minutes it would have been real trouble.

This absolutely justifies the flood watches, IMO.

[87storms]

If you get under one of these cells, it's intense. I received 0.64" of rain in 15 min from a cell today. Also, some of the mesonet soil moisture probes are showing fully saturated soils. For example, our flood sensor on Cabin John Branch at Bradley Blvd showed a 5 foot rise in 40 minutes on Saturday. If that storm over Potomac persisted for another 20 to 30 minutes it would have been real trouble.
This absolutely justifies the flood watches, IMO.

I get all that, but radar was a lot of nothing today.

[Jrlg1181]

Surprisingly picked up 1.21 earlier today... From a cell in western Albemarle that started back building to the northern edge of Waynesboro... Usually that will happen in the southern part of town along or south of 64 with nothing up here...

[mappy]

5 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

never ending mid-upper 70s dewpoints.

65/59 in San Diego. Amazing. 

[Scraff]

7 minutes ago, mappy said:

65/59 in San Diego. Amazing. 

Best weather ever! The dream is one day move there. Would have to be more inland to keep it semi-affordable. I just absolutely love that area. Have fun!

[pazzo83]

16 minutes ago, mappy said:

65/59 in San Diego. Amazing. 

80/75 here.

[snowfan]

3K and HRRR seem locked in on an evening line of storms crossing the 95 corridor. 

[BlizzardNole]

Yet another flood watch, meanwhile my yard is parched and the ground is hard as rock.  0.20 since July 2

[southmdwatcher]

Weather Prediction Center has much of our area east of the Blue Ridge and north of Fredericksburg in a Moderate Risk for excessive rainfall today.