March Discobs 2026

[scope1]

Bright lightning and thunder

[Wxtrix]

thunder and lighting for the last 30 minutes with more to come.

[Mrs.J]

52 minutes ago, 87storms said:

I’m getting fringed, but looks like an active cell scooting just to my west.

I am up in Altoona for the weekend and saw the Special Weather Statement come in for that one. Looking at radar looks like my house got the east side of it. 

[HokieEnginerd]

1 hour ago, George BM said:

Dang!

 

What app did you use to get this information? I would love to be able to look this kind of stuff up.

[EstorilM]

Wow what a night (unexpected!) 

I shall dub the mystery bolt as the “Brunswick Boomer!” 
 

Both my weather stations with lightning detection picked it up, somehow with fairly accurate distances too (10mi from my Middleburg station near goose creek, 16mi from my Catharpin station towards Manassas.) 

 

Then I was woken up again to lots of lightning and thunder as the training storms eventually aligned with me, and I got that impressive cell for a good 10 minutes (peaked out at just under 1”/hr .3 total, nothing too wild. 

These were some pretty impactful storms, especially the training action. There wasn’t so much as a single peep about any of this in the forecast discussion from LWX, just the showers earlier with the fropa around the evening commute. 
 

What an exactly happened from a meteorological perspective? Aren’t things usually pretty dry and stable hours after a front has passed? 

[EstorilM]

3 hours ago, HokieEnginerd said:

What app did you use to get this information? I would love to be able to look this kind of stuff up.

Looks like weather.us

 

…also, wouldn’t this be up there with some of the most powerful strikes ever recorded? At least around here? Average is like 30kA right? 
 

I did NOT think there were any unique atmospheric variables at play last night. 

[Stormchaserchuck1]

Quietly hitting 82 in DC Sunday

[mappy]

Going to be spending the beautiful weekend inside a high school theater at a dance competition.

Enjoy the sunny skies friends! 

[wxdude64]

Currently 46.8/45.5 with fog here at 7:45am. Had a thundershower between 1 and 2 am, but only 0.03". 

[weatherCCB]

0.28”

57

[eyewall]

5 hours ago, EstorilM said:

Looks like weather.us

 

…also, wouldn’t this be up there with some of the most powerful strikes ever recorded? At least around here? Average is like 30kA right? 
 

I did NOT think there were any unique atmospheric variables at play last night. 

You can exceed 300kA with positive strikes for sure.

[high risk]

7 hours ago, EstorilM said:

Wow what a night (unexpected!) 

What an exactly happened from a meteorological perspective? Aren’t things usually pretty dry and stable hours after a front has passed? 

  You only need to go back one page in this discussion to read about the setup. 

[George BM]

13 hours ago, HokieEnginerd said:

What app did you use to get this information? I would love to be able to look this kind of stuff up.

 

9 hours ago, EstorilM said:

Looks like weather.us

 

…also, wouldn’t this be up there with some of the most powerful strikes ever recorded? At least around here? Average is like 30kA right? 
 

I did NOT think there were any unique atmospheric variables at play last night. 

Yes can confirm. weather.us

Always like that site for figuring out how powerful certain lightning events were.

[George BM]

2 hours ago, high risk said:

  You only need to go back one page in this discussion to read about the setup. 

One things for sure... The common non-weather folks sure weren't expecting thunder last night. 

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[snowfan]

Legit gorgeous day for a bike ride. Perfect temp. Tomorrow will be too hot.

 

[Kay]

19 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Legit gorgeous day for a bike ride. Perfect temp. Tomorrow will be too hot.

 

Just got back from a hike in the woods locally. Low 60s. 10/10 March day! I walk in these woods nearly every day and today is it - first green up is happening.

[WxUSAF]

First baseball game for my son actually had perfect baseball weather!

[stormy]

On 3/19/2026 at 10:35 PM, pazzo83 said:

I remember a freeze close to Memorial Day one year back in the 1990s in Staunton

We have had many.

5-10-83 27 degrees,  5-16-83 29 degrees, 5-16-84 30 degrees,  5-30-84 32 degrees,  5-25-88 33 degrees, 5-31-96 33 degrees,  5-30-96- 33 degrees,  5-27-91 31 degrees,  5-20-93 33 degrees....  

[Interstate]

2 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

First baseball game for my son actually had perfect baseball weather!

I am looking forward tomorrows game