09-10 analogy

I was wondering about that too. Birds this morning were singing away as usual. Still, it's significantly better (at least in T-town) than it was earlier today.

There's your next month's chat opener.

"I love the smell of burning Canadian forests in the morning ... that burnt grilled food in a trash bag smell ... it smells of ... victory ... someday these forest fires will end, son."

Yeah, the smell doesn't really bring out the marshmallows over the old campfire vibe. Maybe we need a new thread: "The Great Haze Event of June 2023."

Add haze to fog, nonconvective wind, and heat to things we do well around here. Though I have to admit, the heat has been a welcome absence so far. I usually associate poor air quality with heat, so this little episode of Canadian Wildfire Visitation is somewhat dissociative, especially reading the 32 degree ob from West Va. EDIT: Opened my window and within 15 minutes my throat started feeling scratchy. I really need to go up to Fort Reno and see if I can see the skyline of Tysons like is normally visible.

Shouldn't be much of an impact locally. After all, there's no trees left and most of the construction in the DMV ought to be able to handle 140 mph straight-line winds. Outer Banks are gone for good, but, hey, things happen.

Some pretty heavy rain at times. Distant thunder

Mawar’s eastern sibling loves it some Chesapeake. I see they’ve got Ophelia lined up as a name for the Atlantic. So because they’re running short of “I” names (I mean, rilly, “Idalia”?), they ought to go full Bard and put “Iago” into the rotation.

Wow! Great going and welcome back to the DMV! Hope u can work some magic at WPC to improve our winters.

Just got back from picking up my kid from uni {as the Brits say) in central NYS. Very cool seeing the green blush of spring in the trees get lighter and lighter as we drove north.

I guess what trees were left over from your May blizzard were removed by Bret. It's gonna look like eastern Colorado around here!

Derek Jacobi (I think that was the actor) was outstanding; his performance is kind of lost in the shuffle of so many fine ones. When Theoden is riding along the line of the Rohirrim, tipping spears and making that, as you aptly put it, his “just f**k this” speech … that just pure Big Movie excellence.

That's one of the few parts of the movie I didn't like: how easily the Lord of the Nazgul, who was basically a rogue Numenorean with a neat ring, schooled Gandalf. Gandalf, especially in his reincarnation as the White, was a demigod, more or less, in the class of Sauron himself; both were Maiar, after all. In the book JRRT left their confrontation at the gate unresolved, as the LOTN was called away by the arrival of the Rohirrim right before they threw down. Maybe, amped up by Sauron's power, the LOTN would have prevailed over Gandalf, but he wouldn't have been much use afterwards. As the Grey, Gandalf beat the Balrog: another Maiar. As the White, in the book and movie, he broke Saurman, another Maiar and formerly the head of the wizards' order, rather easily. So I really think Gandalf wouldn't have had that much trouble with the LOTN, who was after all just a man with an extraordinarily powerful trinket. (After all, as the Grey, Gandalf held off six or seven Nazgul on Weathertop, and they "retreated before my wrath.") It certainly wouldn't have been the squash match Peter Jackson made it. Sorry about the tirade but this scene took away from what was, otherwise, a fantastic rendition of the books.

I’m here now going to be great!

Glad to see the storms speeding up a bit. We're going up to Baltimore this evening to see the Ninth at my old alma mater (Hopkins, Shriver Hall) and I don't want what promises to be a wonderful evening (good friend of ours is playing in the orchestra) be ruined by storm-induced traffic jams. @Maestrobjwa are you a part of this? That would be cool, to see you play as well. (I don't know how to notify a member thru the "@")

The Battle of the Pelanor Fields was so well done, and my wife and I were sitting so close (at the uptown on Conn. Ave.) that I got dizzy. I’ll never forget Legolam (kudos to anyone getting the reference) sliding down the oliphant’s trunk shooting arrows.

Very dark out, here comes the gust front, getting windy, absolutely no T/L so far, air has that summertime pre-T/storm "smell" though. Gusty winds maybe 40 to 45, some very small hail mixed in I believe but I'm just looking out the window so not sure. Too lazy to ascertain. There's some thunder! But not earth-shattering. No lightning. Fairly heavy rain. The STS warning mentioned American University, which is a Ichiro throw from where I live, and certainly no 60 MPH gusts here.

Back in the mid 2010s I was at OPACY and there was CG all over the place, you could see it from the seats. They took their time stopping the game. I thought it was a bit irresponsible but what do I know? As far as today, the further S/E of the corridor you are, the better chances of seeing something exciting, I suppose. Just give me a light and sound show, and I'm good. Don't need hail.

Stressful night for ATCs I'm sure. Not to mention pilots, flight attendants, passengers ....

Winds without thunder, lightning, rain, and mean looking skies ... it's just not the same. That's just me, and I have to live with me.

Roaring here, and whistling too. No power flickering, though.

You just don't see those kind of radar presentations in Delaware that often. I don't think Delaware has had anything stronger than an (E)F2 for a while. Last tornado fatality in Delaware was in 1983, I believe. It's my home state, so ...

Some pretty impressive gusts ongoing in up nw. I'd say they're in the 50 MPH vicinity. Thought I heard a little thunder too about a half hour ago.

With all the talk about discrete supercells and tornadoes, the third-largest metro in the nation is about to get hammered with potentially 90 mph winds. That's going to create a lot of havoc and could be one of the biggest stories of this event. I wonder if Lake Michigan, which I gather is still cool, will mitigate it. https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=LOT&wwa=severe thunderstorm warning BTW, SPC dropped the High Risk for the northern part -- I guess because it seems like it's lining out -- but maintains the high risk over northern MS and adjacent slices of east-central AR and sw TN.

I think the gamblers in Tunica need to be placing their bets in basements, just like the old days when there wasn't state-sponsored gambling and it was all run by the Mob in deep, dark places.