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Awesome pic...caught a very similar shot, when we were driving into Santa Fe, NM last August...popup showers all over the place and looked very similar!

Kinda forgot it was the first day of school...our kids are long gone from FCPS. But it was still kind of a weird day for us, as my wife -- who retired from FCPS in summer 2023 -- was invited by a few folks at her former school to apply for an afternoon PT job for one more year, which she did, and she got the job. She's actually happy to be back doing "a little something" again. I guess golf lessons and pickleball just wasn't satisfying enough...not to mention being home with ME while I telework. Personally, I can't imagine feeling that way after MY first year of retirement (commencing in March 2026!)...but we'll see.

LOL.."I got a rock." But yeah, seriously, the storms split north/south on either side of us over the past two days. Thought for sure we'd get knicked by that complex barreling through MD last evening, but no bueno. To your other point...we have LOTS of trees in distress, even after Debby's visit last weekend...so many leaves "browned out" on younger and mature trees alike around my yard, and our largest oak is dropping a ton of leaves already. Finally, @aldie 22 nailed it -- we are gonna have a SPECTACULAR weather week once we get past today.

Yeah...the Stanardsville to Culpeper line completely fizzled out here in NoVA over the past 1-2 hours. Second line back in the valley...looks pretty on radar right NOW, but I'm not gonna count on that NOT holding together until it gets here. Honestly...that "watch" light on my wx radio really needs to outen itself right now.

Yep, looking a bit split-ish right now on radar...although, if that Frederick-to-Reston complex decides to extend to the south in any sort of way, my 'hood might be grazed.

So my wife and I did the cross-country driving trip to Grand Canyon and back to NoVA last July/August. We drove from west TX into NM, and then into AZ...which was pretty much rock and desert...and then, just before we turned off of I-40 to go north to the Grand Canyon...we rode through the OASIS of Flagstaff, AZ. As East Coasters...it was such a relief to see pine trees, and deciduous trees...and TREES, at all. Flagstaff was a very pretty area.

Mrs. V and I took the usual 4-5 mile walk this AM and yeah...it definitely felt more humid. But also cloudier, so it was more bearable...but barely. I need to get my arse out there right now to do the front lawn, before those storms to our south/west work their way up into SE FfxCo! So, @CAPE...you've talked in previous years about how your "back 40" would be swampy (or not) and more mosquito-infested (or not)...how did that go during this somewhat DRIER year? You always seem to have a variety of challenges on your property, depending on how much rain we do, or do not get.

Yeah...thought my front windows were just filthy after last Friday's tropical rains, but no. It's definitely MUCH hazier out there than it was a couple hours ago. Did this really come from wildfires, as someone up above mentioned??

Yep, steady rain here for past 30 min. Surprising. But also about ready to stop. We'll take it.

Again, my middling precip totals in SE FfxCo don't matter...it's so good to see some of these pics and official measurements to our west...for the folks who needed it the most.

Gonna have gorgeous, comfortable nighttime temps for the next week or so. Nice change.

1.24" in past 24 hours...we'll take it. And two tornado warnings. Best tropical storm showing since Isabel. Glad to hear the western crew caught up on some much needed rain.

Just out observing cloud movement on this SECOND tornado warning in about an hour, and this was the first time I've heard, from MY house, Fort Belvoir's "Giant Voice" system blaring its siren and booming "TORNADO WARNING, TAKE COVER NOW!" I do think the worst of that storm is directly over the river, and it is indeed ominous looking just to our east. That storm on radar seems to be taking a direct bead on the District...but haven't seen any additional warnings issued for the city proper in a few minutes.

Hayfield mentioned twice in two separate tornado warnings in about an hour's time. A first.

Impressive rain now, the hardest I've seen it in weeks...can't see half a block away and it sounds like the roof's coming in.

I miss beer porn being posted in banter...I've learned about SO many great beers in the DMV from y'all.

Curious...how tall do they typically get? Are they at or below their normal height/growth this year due to drier conditions?

Yeah...a bit of rain with "waves" of strong wind. At one point, the rain abruptly stopped, the wind picked up a lot, and the lowest and darkest clouds were streaming directly north over our house. A couple times the very lowest clouds seemed to streaming westward but I don't *think* it was rotation. That's to our west, and it IS ominously dark over in that direction.

I'm just SE Groveton in Hayfield, we were named in the warning...been watching lots of low level clouds streaming north but don't see any rotation yet. We're only tornado warned for about 3 min more.

This is some of the worst humidity I think I've ever felt here, for 30+ years.

Just came through!

.12" since 6 a.m. this morning. I definitely thought the western region would be the primary beneficiary of Debby's rains given yesterday's and this morning's shifts, but definitely didn't think we'd be shut out this much today. Definitely more humid out there right now than, say, Satan's anus.

100%...I do love a day-long (or even a couple) rain, especially when we get onshore flow going for a stretch in "normal" times. And yeah, this weekend right into mid-late next week looks like PERFECT conditions and temps. Got .24" in past 24 hours...looks like next big slug of Debby's rain moving in shortly.

We get an Airbnb two blocks inland from this hotel in Myrtle Beach a couple times a year. With the exception of one convective band about to move in, this view yesterday (and still is this morning) pretty sedate...just saw a nice sunrise, in fact. They recorded just over 1.5" in this part of the Grand Strand in past 24 hours...still calling for "catastrophic" 10-15 inch rains in Horry County. We'll see.