Paleocene

Huge strike and boom north downtown silver spring just now... That probably distracted a lot of folks on the beltway. Tons of energy zapping around. Here's a better shot of the poplar that got zapped on my street at 330pm. Looks like a tree bomb went off, bark scattered all over the street. Luckily my house is outside the fall radius ... But power lines and several houses aren't. Hope it doesn't fall!

We got hit pretty good (just east of DTSS)

Heavy rain here for about 20-30 minutes, nothing crazy. Lots of lightning though, and I'm pretty sure we had a very close strike. Heck of a flash and a boom, temporary power loss. I need to go investigate a bit further but I think this monster poplar tree (probably a 100 footer) down the street may have been struck. The light brown line wasn't there a few hours ago

Well this sounds exciting. The combination of appreciable instability and highly anomalous PWAT values will make storms today capable of producing very high instantaneous rainfall rates.

We also got fringed and dodged here over the weekend. Maybe a tenth. But this year (compared to last) my garden has a lot more soil moisture, so I'm letting things go for a few days and they don't seem to mind. Need rain today though or I'll be out there this evening watering.

Cooler out than in! Windows open.

HRRR less enthused with thundershowers this afternoon than it was yesterday, but there still is potential

The water in Wildwood NJ was quite nice last weekend. The surf was meh.

Quick 10 minute shower here in Silver Spring but it was quite moistening.

3k NAM and HRRR have some storms popping up later today

Broiling in the sun after 830am. Good lord.

No real cloud cover yet but a few are popping up, on a vector NW--SE. if we stay cloudless we will cook. sky at 1145 am ish:

With the breeze, was fairly nice out in the 8pm-9pm hour, watering things.

Driving back from the Jersey shore today... Feels like the wrong move. Great past three days here.

Yep. The place is a fog/rain forest. The water never really gets that warm. 60 plus maybe. We've done entire week long vacations and never seen the sun (pic attached was the last week of June in 2023). But often if you drive a few miles inland it can be sunny. Our relatives are across Frenchman Bay from Bar Harbor, and sometimes we can see the islands and town over there socked in with fog, while we have several mile visibility. August-September trend drier with less fog days but in the right set ups it's the same any month of the year. Anyway, hope you see the sun before you leave!

Yep. Dumping in Riverdale

We have family we visit near there. Happens in July and August on the regular. Never truly summer there

The updated CPC map (from yesterday) has us in an even higher probability contour. We gonna cook

I miss the sun

CPC likes the period

Misty and dreary here.

Smoke in the DC burbs now? Smells like a campfire outside

Yep. Can verify from near downtown silver spring that we only got like a tenth, enough to wet the grass. But it felt like a monsoon was coming - lots of lightning and thunder. We missed it.

Sad. I have a cluster of old neglected backyards and trees on my block so we get a bunch of them.

Decent number of fireflies out in my yard the past couple nights.