Big Heat (and storms?) Week into July 4th Weekend

[WxUSAF]

Going to be 0.1” or just over in Columbia. Maybe just a T for Greenbelt..  crazy I95 rain shield

[pazzo83]

DCA had a high of 103.

[Kay]

34 minutes ago, Kay said:

It's been rocking, plenty of wind, power out sadly.

0.3"

[MN Transplant]

Not much more than sprinkles 

[snowfan]

Despite a few hours of T&L, I barely got any rain

[pazzo83]

lightning in our vicinity - maybe there is some interaction with the remaining hot air over the city lol

[nj2va]

69/67 as we wait for the Deep Creek Fireworks to start in a few minutes. USA! 

[vortex95]

13 hours ago, kgottwald said:

Yeah, almost every time an article from The Guardian appeared in my feed, it was "Climate catastrophe!! World ending, everyone's gonna die!!" I guess they're some of the folks pushing for "degrowth". I had to block them, because I'm damn sick and tired of seeing nothing but bad news, all day, every day.

I think we can all agree that the hype and gloom/doom everywhere is a problem.  Find some common ground on an issue/debate, and work from there.

If we do not quantify a problem/issue properly, then how are we supposed to handle/address it properly?  Resources and $$ are finite/limited, and we know wasteful spending/graft are rife.  You are not going act the best way if you are fired-up and we are fighting among ourselves!

Emotional, knee-jerk reactions to problems/issues almost always end up counterproductive.  Perhaps not at first, but the long-term, and the long-term is what counts.  But it is a challenge for all of us to think more iong-term and in the abstract b/c we want solutions and things fixed now!  Shortcoming and fallacies of human nature always are there causing their own problems.  But realizing/understanding this as a base, make discussions/debates better IMHO.

[JakkelWx]

absolutely surreal with fireworks going up all around me with a disco ball right overhead at the same time. somehow barely even a tenth. LOL. but the anvil crawlers are something else.

[vortex95]

13 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Today's the day where some wicked storm fires up and we see a top to 45-50,000 ft.

580 thickness?  60,000 ft I bet occurred w/ such a high tropopause/EL!

[Kay]

22 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

I think we can all agree that the hype and gloom/doom everywhere is a problem.  Find some common ground on an issue/debate, and work from there.

If we do not quantify a problem/issue properly, then how are we supposed to handle/address it properly?  Resources and $$ are finite/limited, and we know wasteful spending/graft are rife.  You are not going act the best way if you are fired-up and we are fighting among ourselves!

Emotional, knee-jerk reactions to problems/issues almost always end up counterproductive.  Perhaps not at first, but the long-term, and the long-term is what counts.  But it is a challenge for all of us to think more iong-term and in the abstract b/c we want solutions and things fixed now!  Shortcoming and fallacies of human nature always are there causing their own problems.  But realizing/understanding this as a base, make discussions/debates better IMHO.

We can agree. Snowenoutthere, a college student, wrote eloquently about rejecting this type of nihilism. I don't know who you're arguing with here but you keep trotting this out, a bit like a strawman, which is a..you know what. Anyway there's a separate forum for this whole discussion and I'm probably about to get in trouble. Why don't you share your take on the science there (not the nihilism, we get that).

[notvirga!]

Heckuva storm in Owings Mills. Might have been the strongest winds I’ve seen since moving here in ‘18. Heard there power outages in Owings Mills and Reisterstown and a tree fell on house in Reisterstown as well. 

[vortex95]

11 hours ago, yoda said:

 

https://www.capitalweather.com/100-degree-days-in-washington-d-c/

1930 had 11

2012 had 8

And I will post this again for reference.  Go figure!

Washington DC ended a streak of 2867 days w/o 100 F reading on
6/22/2024.  This is the 5th longest period on record since 1872.

[Araz07]

33 minutes ago, notvirga! said:

Heckuva storm in Owings Mills. Might have been the strongest winds I’ve seen since moving here in ‘18. Heard there power outages in Owings Mills and Reisterstown and a tree fell on house in Reisterstown as well. 

That storm weakened right as it passed over me, 0.14" total.

[BlizzardNole]

OK that was a rough go in central Calvert.  We had some 50-60 mph gusts with a lot of branches down and a pine tree that snapped and partially fell on my new shed.  Inside looks OK but not sure about the roof until I can get it off.  Brief torrential rain, lots of close lightning and some pea-sized hail.  We lost power for around an hour.  Nearby Mesonet has 0.89.  I hope there's a lot more in coming days

Funny thing as more t-storms have been coming through and these people down here just kept right on shooting off fireworks and hooting LOL

[vortex95]

8 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

BWI hits 100°

Inner Harbor hits 101°

And I just came across this.  An AWOS was just commissioned at the Pier 7 Heliport in Baltimore.
https://www.airnav.com/airport/4MD

So a site to compete w/ the furnace that KDMH is?  LOL.

The site METARs are not on the WMSCR/NCEP feeds currently.  Not sure if they will be, but if they are added, I will let the forum know.  No AWOS phone number was listed in the NFDD entry (see attachment). 
 

[pazzo83]

10 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

And I will post this again for reference.  Go figure!

Washington DC ended a streak of 2867 days w/o 100 F reading on
6/22/2024.  This is the 5th longest period on record since 1872.

see if you can spot the trend!!! 

[hstorm]

Storms rolled through and cooled it down nicely for the Great Falls fireworks. 72 degrees. Happy 250th!

[nw baltimore wx]

13 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

And I just came across this.  An AWOS was just commissioned at the Pier 7 Heliport in Baltimore.
https://www.airnav.com/airport/4MD

So a site to compete w/ the furnace that KDMH is?  LOL.

The site METARs are not on the WMSCR/NCEP feeds currently.  Not sure if they will be, but if they are added, I will let the forum know.  No AWOS phone number was listed in the NFDD entry (see attachment). 
 

Just say what you want to say.