May Discobs 2026

[Mrs.J]

Picked up .60”. What a nice event. 

[Poodleusier]

0.47" in Western fringe of Ballenger Creek.  Nice to over perform the model for once since I can't remember when.

[snowfan]

A lot of T&L. Pouring rain.

[H2O]

Heavy rains and T&L. Most precip in months. I’ll take it 

[SnowenOutThere]

Had a nice shelf cloud come through as I drove home. Made a pit stop by a lake to get some shots, but wish I managed to get to the Herndon metro parking lot roof to see the oranges/purples of the rain behind them. Surrounding area got 0.4-0.5 inches of rain which is the most we've gotten in a long time. Felt good to finally hear heavy rain again.

[Amped]

Some pretty lage drops still

[pazzo83]

FINALLY some really good rain here over the city.  Love rain at night - one of my favorite things.

[Interstate]

.45 way more then I expected

[nw baltimore wx]

1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

This is a good example of the polarimetric radar being important.  If you look at the reflectivity over my house you’d think that it was pouring.  The high differential reflectivity and low differential phase indicates that there are large, but relatively few big drops.  So, despite a radar that looks like below, I’ve had 0.07” so far in this batch.

I’ll have to do some research on this. I’m definitely not using RadarScope to its potential.

 

55 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Had a nice shelf cloud come through as I drove home. Made a pit stop by a lake to get some shots, but wish I managed to get to the Herndon metro parking lot roof to see the oranges/purples of the rain behind them. Surrounding area got 0.4-0.5 inches of rain which is the most we've gotten in a long time. Felt good to finally hear heavy rain again.

Those are awesome shots! 

[nw baltimore wx]

Just got home from work and based on radar estimates, I’m disappointed to have .47” in the gauge.

[wxmeddler]

14 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Just got home from work and based on radar estimates, I’m disappointed to have .47” in the gauge.

I was just noticing that... the radar estimations tonight... did not do great! Overcooked in a lot of places.

Anyway... about 2/3" of an inch here. .4" of which fell in about 10 minutes.

[CAPE]

0.35" 

Light showers moving through now.

Almost 3/4" since Monday. Not bad.

[dailylurker]

It rained pretty heavily several times overnight. Definitely a lot more than I expected. I'm getting one last heavy downpour as I type. Great news! 

[nj2va]

Picked up 0.6” yesterday, loved the ol’ fashioned thunderstorm at night.  Going with a bold prediction that this is the start of the ‘un-droughting’ of the region.

[GATECH]

.76 last night, 1.24 for the week!  Most precip in a week probably since snowcrete for here!

[H2O]

20 minutes ago, GATECH said:

.76 last night, 1.24 for the week!  Most precip in a week probably since snowcrete for here!

.72” and about the same weekly total as you. The ground might not be as hard and crunchy for the next couple days. It’s been so dry in our area 

[BlizzardNole]

On 5/11/2026 at 11:14 AM, AnEndlessMaze said:

I haven’t moved the rain magnet from my old house yet, so congrats SOMD 

But I brought the Germantown rain hole down here with me.  Just 0.21 here 

[weatherCCB]

0.54” here

[katabatic]

Stiff breeze, upslope rain showers and 39 degrees. Gotta be some flakes up on the ridges as its below freezing at Spruce Knob. 

[GramaxRefugee]

0.60" yesterday + overnight.

[WxUSAF]

0.55-0.6” based on nearby reports

[Herb@MAWS]

Columbia imby:

0.73” last night and this morning combined. 
1.16” for May so far. 

[nw baltimore wx]

Picked up another hundredth early so finished with .48” and .88” for May so far.

[MN Transplant]

Good hit along 95.  Every bit helps.