June Discobs 2026

[pazzo83]

91F at DCA.

[87storms]

25 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

91F at DCA.

I’m jealous. Been mostly cloudy up here all morning and mild. Hoping we can get some sun up here for a bit. I’m gonna be out west for a couple weeks so I’d like to see/hear some storms prior.

[pazzo83]

lol we are gonna be more than halfway through our avg 90-deg days before the end of June.

[frd]

Cell developed rapidly NE of Wilmington, DE. and is moving right up I-95 towards Philly. 

[Kay]

Brief shower, just enough rain to wet the laundry I had hanging outside 

[vortex95]

IL had 20+ tornado reports yesterday, and the state is now over 190 for the year (*reports*, not actual tornadoes, there are duplicate reports in this total).

 

Attached is a map for the bigger state totals through 6/19.  The disparity is amazing.  Why IL only so much more?  It's not like when an area is soaked or buried repeatedly w/ rain/snow.  That is more on the synoptic level and areal coverage is larger.  When you get down to a local level, such as an area that is about avg size for a U.S. state, that's not the same for scale.  And to get tornadoes, it is a lot more conditional (harder) than say a lot of heavy rain or snow over an extended period.

 

But given the vagaries of the atmosphere/patterns and given enough time, you are going to see things due to the law of large numbers and averages.  Just pointing this out b/c some try to assign a specific meaning or cause, where sometimes there is none.

 

Yes, I know of the hypothesis that tornado alley is shifting E, but we really do not have enough solid data IMHO.  Tornadoes, esp. weak and short-lived ones, were severely under-counted prior to the 1990s since storm chasing was not yet mainstream, WSR-88Ds did not exist for operational use, nor did the Internet (at least in widespread use).  ~35 years of data is not enough time to establish a trend either way.  I would argue that it wasn't until 2010 or so when we started to get close to actual number of tornadoes that occur every year in the U.S. w/ the  advent of the smartphone and dual-polarization radar.

[IronTy]

Clouded up over here in the past hour.  Stay vigilant.  

[stormy]

When I flashed a Storm Alert to my 1000 patron Newsletter at 2:23, I increased my POP for tomorrow from 25% to 60%.

Lo and behold, when Sterling revised with the afternoon package at 3:00, they increased their POP from 20 - 60% for tomorrow.

My call had nothing to do with skill or expertise. But, 5 models cannot be denied!

Hopefully, El Nino is beginning to knock.

 

[pazzo83]

finally a storm that is blowing up right over the city

[kgottwald]

My luck finally ran out: I had to walk home through the heaviest part of the insane monsoon flooding cell in central Fairfax County.

Never again!

[pazzo83]

5 minutes ago, kgottwald said:

My luck finally ran out: I had to walk home through the heaviest part of the insane monsoon flooding cell in central Fairfax County.

Never again!

was picking up my daughter from camp on the bus and we missed it by about 10 min thankfully.

 

DCA hit 95F before this started coming through, so another 95F+ day in the books.

[arlwx12]

Visibility down to about 1/2 mile in the downpour near DCA. edit: now more like 1/4 mile.

[EastCoast NPZ]

And in the end, exactly as expected.   .08"

[AnEndlessMaze]

2 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

And in the end, exactly as expected.   .08"

You actually did better than me this time! I only got 0.02” 

[EastCoast NPZ]

12 minutes ago, AnEndlessMaze said:

You actually did better than me this time! I only got 0.02” 

Soon, not even the cactii will be alive.

[Herb@MAWS]

Rainfall was 0.13” east side Columbia. A bit of l&t but nbd. The shrubs seem nicely watered, at least at the ground level. 

[yoda]

1 hour ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Soon, not even the cactii will be alive.

Looks like a quick line coming soon for you 

[EastCoast NPZ]

57 minutes ago, yoda said:

Looks like a quick line coming soon for you 

Picked up additional .14"

.22" for the day.

[ravensrule]

14 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Like clockwork.  50% reduction.  One more to go.

So bottom line is you barely saw 1/4”?

[EastCoast NPZ]

5 hours ago, ravensrule said:

So bottom line is you barely saw 1/4”?

Just as I predicted.  .22"

[dailylurker]

5 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Just as I predicted.  .22"

Looks like you're about to get a nice steady rain. Hopefully this morning rain produces for everyone that missed out yesterday. NAM 3k is juicy for today. 

[EastCoast NPZ]

9 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Looks like you're about to get a nice steady rain. Hopefully this morning rain produces for everyone that missed out yesterday. NAM 3k is juicy for today. 

I hope so.  But it's very light here so far.

[WxUSAF]

17 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Looks like you're about to get a nice steady rain. Hopefully this morning rain produces for everyone that missed out yesterday. NAM 3k is juicy for today. 

Seems a little slower and norther relative to guidance? Not sure what that foretells. 

[DanTheMan]

Managed a much needed .55" total yesterday. Gardens looking forward to some more today

[stormy]

.42" yesterday in the central valley.    Light rain began this morning at about 7:00.

[weatherCCB]

0.15” yesterday 

[Paleocene]

Got fringed on the first round and missed the strong storms of round 2 to the south last night, picked up 0.25" ish from the combo. Drizzle this morning...hoping to make it to an inch

[Mrs.J]

Nice steady light rain. Good for the garden and flower beads. .14” in my station. 

[wxdude64]

The 0.28" reported at 7 am got me over 2" for the month (2.12"). About another .05-.06 in gauge eyeballing it from the kitchen window since. A light rain falling currently at 10:15 am and a muggy 66.8/66.0 degrees.

[aldie 22]

Up to. 33 for today. 36 for the event so far