Just doesn't sound like the thermos are gonna be there.
Meanwhile, this is the kind of MD you'll never see written for this area:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0199.html
There are so many ways we fail at severe weather around here that that basket couldn't be fuller. So I'm confident your blanket will ensure a memorable season. It'll start off Sunday with widespread 70+ gusts and a couple of QLCS tornadoes for seasoning.
Just shoveled so I don't have to deal with mini-cordilleras of ice post-pedestrian beatdown. Eyeballing under an inch but prolly more than a half-inch. But I suck at judging things like that so who knows.
Streets caving. Moderate++ snow but brightening skies. Snow on slop. A bird flying around wondering why the hell it didn't head south this winter. Of course they're gonna get it down there too.
This little band going over northern DC is rocking. May be letting up a wee bit now. Went out to shovel. Shoveling is much more enthralling when the snow is coming down legitimately.
Rates have definitely dropped off and a little sleet may be mixing. Hard to tell, if there is, it's lighter than a Zippo WW2 artifact. Eyeballing 4.5" plus or minus infinity.
The comparisons to Hugo are pretty apt I think. Strengthening on the way in, booking along, and liable to hit a major metro area far inland hard.
EDIT: One thing I just thought of, Hugo didn't seem to have a big affect on the southern Appalachians? I mean, like Helene is gonna blast them with.
If that's the road I'm thinking of, it's dicey in the best of circumstances. Couldn't pay me enough to travel on it now.
(I used to co-own some property in Highlands so I'm a bit familiar with the area.)
I have an issue with water seepage in my basement, and am a firm believer in the superstition that if you mention something unpleasant enough, it won't happen, so every time there's a heavy rain, then like Pavlov's dogs, I drool "June 2006."
Yeah, usually this kind of overnight activity is one and done. This is the third period of heavy rain in an hour or so. I think this is related to the PRE to our south that's setting the table for the dangerous flooding in the southern Apps from the tropical system. I'd call it a PRE here but it seems decidedly uncertain at this point just how much of Helene's remnants affect the *immediate* DC weather.
Pretty heavy nocturnal rain shower in up nw. In fact, very heavy. Saw some flashes of lightning earlier but didn't hear thunder.
Used to own some property in Western NC, near Highlands. I would not want to be there for the next 48 hours. There are some rather hairy mountain roads around there; I can't imagine trying to negotiate them in the kind of conditions they're forecasting. And it's not too often you see Eastern WFOs talk about the possibilities of landslides.