August Discobs 2026

[IronTy]

4 hours ago, BlizzardNole said:

Partly sunny and 83/75 here.  Got a surprise 0.2 yesterday afternoon and hoping for more today.  

Just got home after driving through heavy rain all the way through Calvert county.  My rain gauge has 1.1" in it from the storms today so far.  Solid drought remediation.   Seems like more to come too.  

[Paleocene]

Dumping for the second time today in silver spring. Could end up with over 2" on the day. Niño time finally here?

[yoda]

7 hours ago, dailylurker said:

The NAM says what rain today or tonight for DC and east. The storm to the west just goes north and hits the same ole flooded areas of NY. 

NAM failure 

[SomeguyfromTakomaPark]

Deluge in takoma park - been a while 

[WxUSAF]

Thunder in Columbia with the start of this batch 

[pazzo83]

Feels like maybe Tuesday broke the seal for the city - getting slammed.

[MN Transplant]

I had to leave town for it to finally rain.  My station says 1.24”.  Radar seems to think that there is upwards of 3” in spots between my house and DCA.

[pazzo83]

2 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

I had to leave town for it to finally rain.  My station says 1.24”.  Radar seems to think that there is upwards of 3” in spots between my house and DCA.

Yeah my station isn’t capturing the full amount for sure 

[coolio]

Hammered here in S. Arlington. This was from 4:30 to 5. Sorry for the unofficial reading. Still trying to get a "proper" rain gauge. 

[wawarriors4]

Up to 3.12” on the day down here in Stafford

77/76

[mappy]

0.16” so far today, round 2 incoming 

[Weather Will]

About .30 at home; sunny all day in OC.

[RDM]

Got a good dose with the last round.  1.39" so far for the day. That's the most in what seems like forever...  

[dailylurker]

Damn. My NAM comment from earlier didn't age well lol. Radar looks amazing right now. Looks at that fetch of moisture. 

[SnowenOutThere]

Rough cutoff over western fairfax county today. I’m sitting just under .3 while under a mile away is 1 inch plus. Suns now fighting to come out, hoping we still got a batch or two of rain left.

[southmdwatcher]

Eastern side of DC area looks to get hit solidly this evening

[Eskimo Joe]

Incredible bust for short term model guidance. Some places about to pick up 3" of rain on the day.

[BlizzardNole]

1 hour ago, IronTy said:

Just got home after driving through heavy rain all the way through Calvert county.  My rain gauge has 1.1" in it from the storms today so far.  Solid drought remediation.   Seems like more to come too.  

1.5 in my gauge so far from two flush hits and more incoming.  I'd love to see moderate rain all evening with a few rumbles of thunder.  We deserve this!

[dailylurker]

Models definitely missed this one. I was expecting any decent rain to stay west of DC today and tonight. It looks like a fire hose aimed at PG and AA county. I was expecting this to be over Frederick this evening 

[H2O]

2.46” as of 6:25pm so looks like I’m a winner today 

 

[IronTy]

15 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

1.5 in my gauge so far from two flush hits and more incoming.  I'd love to see moderate rain all evening with a few rumbles of thunder.  We deserve this!

I'm nearing 2" now and yes the radar looks good.  Drought terminated.  

[Mrs.J]

.41” for me. 

[wxmeddler]

47 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Incredible bust for short term model guidance. Some places about to pick up 3" of rain on the day.

Trust the Synoptics

IMO the synoptic setup was screaming that this would be a flooding potential event. I'm really surprised that WPC dropped the ball and didn't at least put a slight out to I-64 starting a few days ago. LWX slowly started to realize the potential starting on Friday but the writing was on the wall starting on Wednesday.