Hank Scorpio

Was just out on my deck and thinking it was way too early for so much pollen to be showing up. Now I know, it's all southwestern dust! Interesting, and annoying to clean off furniture out there haha

Lots of damage photos on X from that day: https://x.com/search?q=Leesburg tornado until%3A2020-02-10 since%3A2020-02-07&src=typed_query

Damn, fringed in Leesburg. Guess I could chase to Sterling...

When I was a kid, I emailed him what was a very basic weather question after seeing rain change to snow. Must have been shortly after we got access to the internet, so maybe 1997? He was nice enough to reply in detail, and that's how I learned about wet bulb, dew point, and evaporative cooling. I had to come to the weather message boards to learn about storms making their own cold air though.

Just don't forget to sweep your darkness board! My temp instantly dropped 2.2° once I remembered to sweep mine

Gotta love when you get instant street stickage. Nice light snow right now, would be prefect if this kept up all night long.

For some reason my tempest station is reporting a temperature of 36. Every other nearby tempest is sitting under 32, with a bunch reading 31.6 Guess I'd better find a better place to mount it. Only thing I can think is that it's picking up a bunch of heat radiating off my house.

Been lucky here in Leesburg with that band of moderate to heavy snow training over the area. Looks like an additional 1.5 inches or so from that...pretty fluffy stuff.

Nice to see instant stickage when the flakes finally started to fall. Also great to see some yellows already marching steadily north into Loudoun.

Sleds and shovels have been moved out of storage and into the garage. Do I make my kids shovel before we go sledding in the morning or just get on the hills immediately?

Awesome, thank you very much for the recommendations

She's right in Winchester, across from Jim Barnett park. Always good to have some local shoveling talent nearby haha. My oldest will be getting in some reps tomorrow for sure

Any of our Frederick County VA crew have a recommendation or know of a company that'll shovel residential addresses? My Mom just turned 80 and I really don't want her out trying to clear off her porch or sidewalk tomorrow. @clskinsfan @EastCoast NPZ

Yellows on radar are legit. Picked up a quick coating, even sitting at 37 degrees. Curious to see how this radar plays out over the next hour or so.

Battlefield parkway out towards Leesburg was the only road I saw treated in the area, which is surprising. Won't take much to seriously disrupt roads with how cold it's been

Agreed, excellent sunset. Portions had an appearance almost like ripped paper, or like fire had just started to burn through a piece of paper. Were these the elusive lacunosus clouds? I'd never seen them before

First flakes of the year coming down now in Leesburg at a balmy 37 degrees

Yeah! Seeing the spikes show up was so cool. Also amazing how much more color the phone camera will pick up...probably was only 5% as colorful with the naked eye.

Its about to head over the mountain. Wonder if it'll lift at all because of terrain and then plant again once it's on the other side of the river

Everything yesterday and today has been just barely missing me to the north and west. There's a pws just half a mile to my west that's sitting at .25" so far today while I'm at 0.04". Crazy to continually be right on the edge of the convection. At least I'm hearing some good thunder!

I finally put up a tempest over the weekend and it's showing 94.5 here in Leesburg. Likely will move it in a few weeks so that it's sitting a bit higher and a bit further from the house. Nice to have a weather station up and running though.

No warning or anything on that storm in Poolesville, but it's starting to look interesting on radar with a bit of rotation ETA, got severe warned right after I posted

Interesting, thank you for sharing. Since the start time of the Poolesville tornado was listed as 7:01, I went back and looked at the pictures and video I took again. Last picture before I headed home was taken at 7:01, and I think I can just barely make out the funnel. I was in Leesburg, a little over 7 miles away though, so things were looking a little grainy. I think I may have also caught a funnel as it was trying to produce at 6:59 in this timelapse. https://imgur.com/a/2mc4MH4

Noooo! My yard was ground zero for them last year and they did a real number on my little birch tree. Guess we'll find out soon if the grub control I spread in the yard was able to make an impact on the larvae and grubs. Only use the trap/bag things if you've got a spot way far off from any plants you wanna keep alive. They work great to attract the beetles, but ultimately they work so well that you end up attracting beetles from the entire neighborhood into your yard. Also, a trap full of dead beetles smells horrendous.

I went and checked out the damage path from the Wednesday tornado north of Leesburg. It took a route right through a neighborhood, but thankfully all of the damage I could see was limited to trees. Obvious damage in a couple of spots right next to the road, but there were some bigger trees down back way behind houses. Two things I found particularly interesting, first that it touched down almost immediately after getting over the catoctins. They aren't very high in that spot, but I do wonder if the terrain had any impact on timing. And second, how fast that thing must have been moving. NWS said it was only on unit ground for a minute, but the damage path was pretty darn long still. I also went back and looked at the pictures I took on Wednesday and then compared them to the radar loop, and what I was seeing makes a lot more sense now. The tornado north of Leesburg lifted just as I started taking pictures. And so what I was focused on instead was the new rotation that was just beginning and was what eventually produced the long track tornado that moved through Montgomery county.