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  1. 09-10 analogy
    I'm going there as soon as possible. Your photos have convinced me!
  2. 09-10 analogy
    Our luck ran out. Just as we were going out the door of the hotel, we read the concert was cancelled due to Springsteen having some kind of health issue. Rumor is he's got the newest Covid variant. They'll honor the tickets later when he gets better and can reschedule but whether our daughter will be able to make it, being back at uni ... who knows? So we're out the gas and tolls, and the hotel room, since we turned around and drove home last night. I would have stayed to luxuriate -- or what I consider to be luxuriating -- in the hotel, but I was outvoted by my wife and daughter, both of whom were adamant about coming home. What a day: the original hotel we'd booked -- a Hampton Inn near the airport -- was a smelly dump, so we changed hotels (at least we got the money back for the first one). Checked into the new, much nicer place, and then found out about the cancellation. Disappointed, but at least we didn't fly into Philly to see him like some couple from Europe we were talking to at a restaurant near Citizens Bank Park.
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    I remember getting one on my phone when the small tornado went through N Arlington/Foggy Bottom a while back. It woke me up
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    Best thing about today's storm is I got to hear the EAS beeps on WTOP as I was driving home.
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    I don't think there were winds anything like that in upper NW but I was inside when the storm hit so didn't see the initial gust. But as (the lack of) a telltale sign, very little tree debris/leaves down -- much less branches -- on the way home thru my neighborhood. Torrential rain though. That's at least the second time recently DCA has met/exceeded severe wind criteria. Pretty sure they did at least on 7.29; maybe some other date as well?
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    We're really lucking out on Wednesday night, when the three of us are going to see Springsteen in Philly as kind a send-away to our daughter (and as a birthday present to me) before she goes back to uni week after next. Never been to a big concert with her. Hope she likes it; she wants to go and I'm not the Bruce fan I was when I was younger. Mostly clear temps falling through the 70s. Thank goodness we're (and he and his band, all of whom are ... seasoned performers, shall we say) not dealing with heat advisories and EHWs like they are in the NW and SE.
  7. 09-10 analogy
    So to recap (for LWX region): July 28: Corridor of significant wind damage from Frederick to Baltimore County, with a secondary cluster around the northern and eastern suburbs of DC; scattered hail and wind damage reports in NVA. (82 reports total) https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports/?date=20230728&hoursBefore&all July 29: Corridor of significant/major wind damage from NVA and southern MOCO through DC; scattered reports elsewhere (141 reports total; 749 nationwide) https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports/?&all&date=20230729 August 7: Corridor of major/extreme wind damage and hail reports along and south of Mason/Dixon line (tornado reports pending?); numerous wind (and some hail) reports in eastern WVA, northern VA, and central MD; scattered reports in DC (203 reports total; 1389 nationwide) https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports/?&all&date=20230807 (Links go to CONUS map; I drilled down to just Sterling CWA; I don't know how to make the link focus on just our area) That about right?
  8. 09-10 analogy
    Thing is, the O's were becoming a national, feel-good story: a team that had been so bad was now so good, put together right, with a bunch of young, enthusiastic guys. Beating soundly all the big-payroll teams. And then this ass mini-Angelos comes along and kiboshes the PBP guy for merely stating fact. That's a horrible look: not only being a real jerk, but a dummy, since much of the goodwill being directed at the O's by the baseball-following public will dissolve as a result of this petty behavior. Brittany Ghiroli, an excellent reporter who used to be on the O's beat before she went nationwide and who doubtlessly still has sources in the O's organization, went on a diatribe against Angelos jr. this morning, saying this is part of a pattern of ridiculous behavior for John Angelos and that it doesn't surprise her at all. She's never struck me as someone who says things just to stir up controversy; her reporting is usually measured and nuanced. https://www.audacy.com/podcast/the-big-bad-morning-show-10d9e/episodes/the-athletics-britt-ghiroli-shares-why-the-kevin-brown-situation-is-par-for-the-course-for-the-orioles-franchise-ab6c5
  9. 09-10 analogy
    SMH. The only thing the O's need right now is new ownership.
  10. 09-10 analogy
    Second helping approaching. According to SPC mesoanalysis, still a good bit of shear overhead, but not surprisingly much less instability to work with.
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    So far, perhaps surprisingly, no TOR reports on the EC from the SPC site: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html
  12. 09-10 analogy
    SPC doesn't seem to be dropping the watches to the west, so why not go for round two?
  13. 09-10 analogy
    Wow. Was there any radar rotation indicated with that cell as it went through, or is that all straight-line?
  14. 09-10 analogy
    Yeah that had to be the little cell that popped 20 min or so before the main line. Because that little cell fell apart east of the District. I know weather is more complex than that, but it seems to fit with what occurred inside the Beltway and why this was just another storm here, as opposed to many other places, where it seemed to amply justify the Moderate Risk. But I was semi-blasted Saturday before last, so I don't feel particularly letdown.
  15. 09-10 analogy
    Nice little storm, with a decent amount of T&L and winds to maybe 35, but, as another poster noted, nothing like last weekend ... at least MBY. I could see the clouds booking but the winds aloft didn't seem to be transferring to the ground level. Or maybe not, I don't know. Maybe that little cell before the main line prevented it? Crazy stuff up in Westminster though.
  16. 09-10 analogy
    Well whatever we're gonna get we're gonna get in the next few minutes.
  17. 09-10 analogy
    Yeah but we had mini-me come through to let the air out. Of course it's awfully dark to our west so maybe we'll still see some action.
  18. 09-10 analogy
    Actually that little cell fell apart like a Dollar General t-shirt in the heavy duty wash cycle. Maybe the big line will give us some excitement after all.
  19. 09-10 analogy
    Ehh, it'll prolly just ruin the main segment for the immediate DC metro. ETA: Anyhoo, it got dark here suddenly with some dollops of rain and low thunder. Actually now a downpour, but nothing else. Atmospheric premature ejac .... oh, this is a family website, so I'll stop there. But I think that's what may be happening DC immediate. ETA: I'm sure once this passes DC it'll put down wedges all the way to the Patapsco River.
  20. 09-10 analogy
    It's kind of depressing to read LWX: "this only happens a couple of times a decade." If we can't get decent widespread moderate/significant snow events around here anymore, it'd be nice if we could replace that with one or two robust QLCSs per year, like today.
  21. 09-10 analogy
    Looks like the peak of that bow may flush hit IAD. Interesting to see what their report will be.
  22. 09-10 analogy
    Yeah it's now SVR TS warned and looks to pass just to the north of Charlottesville. ETA: sorry, you just posted essentially the same thing.
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    I have to admit, I haven't been this weenied out pre-event, I think, since 2016. Probably should dial it back a bit.
  24. 09-10 analogy
    Yeah I've been looking for that. I don't see any mid-level clouds right now, although I'm in the city and so visibility is limited. Admittedly, the low-level cumulus are moving pretty quickly to the N/NW. I remember 2002, the day of the LaPlata (E?)F4, seeing in Rock Creek Park low-level and mid-level clouds moving pretty quickly in different directions. This was a couple of hours before the LaPlata supercell took off. That memory (I was running there at the time) has stuck with me for some reason.
  25. 09-10 analogy
    For some reason, this reminds me of a play-by-play at a golf tournament.
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