May Discobs 2026

[katabatic]

0.09" for the beginning of our drought buster. 1.25" so far for the month. Turned into a nice afternoon/evening albeit a bit humid (DPs ~65). 

[Poodleusier]

0.72" in my part of Frederick this afternoon.  "only" a 21 MPH gust on my station, but it's 5 feet off the ground and between two rows of townhouses.  But judging from the rain blowing along the roofs I'd say more like 30+ sustained for some periods.  Looks like power lines down west of me along route 85 from FB reports.

[baldereagle]

Winners in the severe weather sweepstakes would, for me, always be those who don’t get any. On the losing side——-
Shutout on rain thus far near Chestertown and hopefully the next several days’ potential activity will provide some. 

[RDM]

Was out west of Leesburg this afternoon when the first round hit.  When the rn started the first 30 seconds of precip were massive globules of water.  If they had been snowflakes they would have been hang gliders - not just mere parachutes.   

[konksw]

Basically nothing for DC. 

[George BM]

IAD hit 95+ three days in a row. Impressive for May.

Meanwhile, it's 84F at my house. Down from 85F earlier with the A/C on the fritz. 

[Jrlg1181]

Haven't seen any rain in Cville today at work... Just dark clouds to the north earlier..

But radar suddenly looks promising back home in Waynesboro...

[WxUSAF]

Over 0.5” now. Rain filling in along the stalled front (??)

[snowfan]

Not a drop yet at my house. 

[high risk]

19 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Over 0.5” now. Rain filling in along the stalled front (??)

       Yes!   CAMs have been in overall good agreement that multiple rounds of convection move across the area overnight, except for southern MD.    Then more heavy showers erupt tomorrow around midday and gradually sink to the southeast.

 

[WxUSAF]

9 minutes ago, high risk said:

       Yes!   CAMs have been in overall good agreement that multiple rounds of convection move across the area overnight, except for southern MD.    Then more heavy showers erupt tomorrow around midday and gradually sink to the southeast.

 

Nice trajectory for us at the moment…

[Mrs.J]

1 hour ago, Poodleusier said:

0.72" in my part of Frederick this afternoon.  "only" a 21 MPH gust on my station, but it's 5 feet off the ground and between two rows of townhouses.  But judging from the rain blowing along the roofs I'd say more like 30+ sustained for some periods.  Looks like power lines down west of me along route 85 from FB reports.

Looking at WXUnderground your station is directly North of mine. If I remember correctly that you moved off of Jefferson Pike. Will be interesting to see the difference between the elevations. 

[nj2va]

21 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Not a drop yet at my house. 

Same, hopefully the stuff down by Culpepper gets to me. 

[SnowenOutThere]

32 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Over 0.5” now. Rain filling in along the stalled front (??)

Still have 1000+ CAPE for the immediate suburbs to help wring out the now moist atmosphere. As long as we can buy some forcing we should be able to rain. Hopefully the front sags south to help out the people who got skunked earlier. 

[ThePhotoGuy]

Thundered a few times tonight but no rain so far. 

[Paleocene]

Most/all rain sitting just north of silver spring since the 4pm hour. We got some showers then. Didn't amount to much. But just a few miles away looks soaked 

[Poodleusier]

16 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Looking at WXUnderground your station is directly North of mine. If I remember correctly that you moved off of Jefferson Pike. Will be interesting to see the difference between the elevations. 

Yeah, I'm about 100 feet higher at new location, a little north and west of you.  Basically where 70, 270 and 15/340 meet.  Like 410' vs 325' over off English Muffin.  I think bigger thing is I'm closer to the Catoctin Ridge, which might have me in a little rain shadow for some events.

[Eskimo Joe]

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

Over 0.5” now. Rain filling in along the stalled front (??)

I think that outflow boundary stalled our just west of I-95 in Maryland. It may be enough to organize what litter instability is left.

[high risk]

3 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

I think that outflow boundary stalled our just west of I-95 in Maryland. It may be enough to organize what litter instability is left.

        I don't think that these are surfaced-based storms.   The low, rolling thunder suggests an inversion, and elevated cape makes sense given the overnight height falls.

[hstorm]

It’s been pouring here for most of the past 90 minutes. Not much thunder/lightning except for the initial storm that came through around 8:30. 

[Mrs.J]

Sitting in the front of the house and occasionally seeing lightning off to the East.