WeatherShak Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 The hits just keep coming, FFW upgraded to a dangerous situation, my phone even went off, which I have set for only PDS's and tornado warnings. Folks near creeks and river advised to seek higher ground?!? Estimated rainfall 4+ inches with heavy rain still falling. Seeing reports of stranded vehicles on mping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csnavywx Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 12.7K strikes on the cluster W of DC in the past 20m. Several short-term peaks of 500-600 strikes/minute. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Finally getting in on the rain after an hour of lightning in the distance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolio Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 I went to the gym to get ahead of the rain situation. It was oppressive enough going in. However, when I came out it was light rain and was only 1 degree warmer (car thermometer). And it felt like the dewpoint had not budged. It was like the tropics. I think we'll get some decent rain out of this, but good luck to all getting hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 The area near Warrenton is at 2-3” in the last hour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 The flooding down in Fauquier / Manassas counties sounds isolatedly bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 The older Ms J and I just geeked out over spider cloud to cloud lightning 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 More heavy rain and lightning, story of the summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, wxdude64 said: FFW in NW and northern part of the county, now that same storm has gone severe, with a STW for NE part of the county. I'm missing it all by a mile at most, still hanging on to that 25 drop total and a couple 20-25 gusts blowing out of the storm. Man, that's frustrating . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 .73 for the day and a good light show here in 21057 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high risk Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 The big question is whether there is another round later tonight. We typically don’t do late night convection well, but there is forcing arriving later. Radar is lighting up over WV; guidance is mixed about how significant it is when it reaches DC metro in a few hours. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Awesome lightning looking east from my apartment balcony. Some real nice cloud-to-cloud action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Incredible lightning show 10-10:30 driving south 95 from Baltimore. One lasted almost 10 seconds continuous Probably 15 really special bolts east south and west 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAOS Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 42 minutes ago, high risk said: The big question is whether there is another round later tonight. We typically don’t do late night convection well, but there is forcing arriving later. Radar is lighting up over WV; guidance is mixed about how significant it is when it reaches DC metro in a few hours. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Not much here so far- .03". Hearing some persistent thunder with weakening storms on the doorstep per radar. Hopefully it holds together. A half inch would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Impressive T&L right now. Pouring rain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Drove from Reston back to Edgewater earlier. The lightning show the entire drive was surreal. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen lightning like this around here. The spider-effect on the C2C lightning was a thing of beauty. The CG strikes went nuts once I got on Rt50 off of 495. Incredible show with some close strikes across eastern AA Co. This has been an energetic summer thanks to all the humidity and deep moisture layer presence. MUCAPE has been consistently breaching 3000 J/kg along the western shores of the Bay most days with a few days >4000 J/kg. Textbook environments for these convective elements and long lasting lightning shows. Still got a ways to go to get out of this too. Incredible run we are on. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrlg1181 Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 0.02 today for a three day total of flood watches of 0.03... Never seen that before.. Not that we need rain - got slammed Sunday - monthly total approaching 4.50... Remain torn on these daily flood watches , there is no doubt that where these storms in this moist atmosphere set up-fast and significant flash flooding can occur.. We haven't reached the technical ability yet to pinpoint exactly where that will be - like identical supercells out in the plains - one might produce a significant tornado but the other dosent... However there is no doubt that any tornado watch out west will be taken much more seriously than a flood watch around here.. However to the average person - non weather fanatic who knows nothing about the details , daily flood watches showing up on phone weather apps without a large synoptic or tropical system that's all over the news or social media kind of creates a yeah ok whatever attitude...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Ok that was a pretty impressive storm and better than I expected. Nothing severe but entertaining with a decent amount of rain. 0.76" with some lighter rain continuing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 ~0.6” last night. ~5.4” for July. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb@MAWS Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 0.80” in my corner of Columbia last night. 5.92” in July so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherCCB Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 0.39” last evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 This shows how much of a craphole this place is and that it's not me exaggerating. Great looking radar moving in from west broke up right over me, then reformed east. This happens over and over. Only 0.5" total since July 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 8 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said: This shows how much of a craphole this place is and that it's not me exaggerating. Great looking radar moving in from west broke up right over me, then reformed east. This happens over and over. Only 0.5" total since July 2 You and East Coast NPZ should definitely grab dinner together. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1 hour ago, WxUSAF said: ~0.6” last night. ~5.4” for July. 5.1" for the month after last night. More than double the June total. Needed July to deliver and so far so good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 0.27" overnight. 7.12" for the month. 9 of the last 10 days have had measurable rainfall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowtoRain Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 0.33", 3.85" month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Good storm last night. Best part was all the loud thunder and lightning. My middle kid and I stood in the kitchen watching all the flashes. We totally geeked out together 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 1.10 " of rain here last night. Tomorrow should feel great compared to today and yesterday. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 This has to be one of the longest stretches of dew points around or above 75 we’ve had in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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