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Yeah, honestly shocked it cleared out as much as it did. It's 98 right now. And I'm waiting (with somewhat bated breath) for the wx radio's klaxon to fire off any minute signaling a STW.

Appreciate the summary provided in banter but I don't believe you're clogging up anything here -- of course, all of us reading this thread love to follow the severe stuff. But sharing your experience reminds us to be careful when it's showtime.

DAMN. First, I'm so glad that you and your family are safe. I saw another one of our forum members commented on your experience (from the Springfield, VA area, I believe), which was equally harrowing. I was a late teen, hunkering down with my mother in my childhood home in PA, when we had a direct lightning strike at the top front of our house circa 1988. All appliances started beeping, our main TV was fried, there was a definite electrical stench in the air, but nothing was seriously ruined in terms of the electrical system. As expected, the blinding flashes in every window were instantaneously followed by ear-splitting thunder...and my mom and I had ringing in our ears for a couple hours afterward. Certainly, we did not sustain the kind of damage that you all did here...unfortunately. As a weather buff, you ALREADY knew the dangers of lightning, and we can obviously never predict when it strikes...but it is a force of nature NOT to be trifled with.

Yeah, we're noticing more breaks in the cloudiness in our parts....more than I anticipated, looking at the GOES satellite pics. I'm assuming that more sun will equal more atmospheric destabilization for storms later on. This width and breadth of the evolving coverage of this MD mesonet project is awesome. I see that VA Tech -- Virginia Tech Mesonet | climate.geography | Virginia Tech (vt.edu) -- has a very limited network set up in a number of VA spots. Are any other states working on building out the way MD has?

Currently 88/75. Mrs. V & I just walked the four mile round trip up to Alexandria's Mt. Wegman's and back. Yeah, it's super muggy and we're soaked...but at least we didn't have to do the walk in full sun this morning. Glad to hear some you cashed in on precip last night, and especially on the lightning show so many of you commented on. I could see the barest hint of lightning flashes to the north when I went to bed around 11:30 last night. Just like I sat on the back steps of my childhood home and watched the "heat lightning" (props to @nj2va!) over the western hills getting closer...I thought about sitting out on the back patio last night to see if things got more intense. But it was still in the low 80s, and I didn't want to crawl into bed all sweaty from sitting outside.

Thx for that...have t heard that term since I was a youngun in PA.

Looks like your area is about to get spanked, storm wise, Mrs. J!

Hey, if you don't mind, tell me again which wx station you have? I can't find it in my saved stuff, but I vaguely recall from a past discussion that you had one installed that appealed to me on a number of feature fronts...

I'm deciding right now between two new wx stations so no access to anemometer, but anecdotally -- the intensity and especially the sound of Wednesday evening's gust front reminded me just a bit of the onset of the June 2012 derecho. Didn't get a decent video because it was moving fast, but did get a few pics of the gust front (below). To @WeatherShak's point, I also observed a couple tall oaks listing to port pretty good during these initial winds.

Now that truly DOES suck -- what's the situation this morning? It's definitely feeling muggy here this morning. Hope this was, or is, fixed quickly!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.... Severe Thunderstorm Warning MDC017-033-262145- /O.NEW.KLWX.SV.W.0085.240626T2113Z-240626T2145Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 513 PM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024 The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southern Prince Georges County in central Maryland... Northeastern Charles County in southern Maryland... * Until 545 PM EDT. * At 513 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near La Plata, moving northeast at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damaging winds will cause some trees and large branches to fall. This could injure those outdoors, as well as damage homes and vehicles. Roadways may become blocked by downed trees. Localized power outages are possible. Unsecured light objects may become projectiles. * Locations impacted include... Waldorf, Clinton, Fort Washington, La Plata, Andrews Air Force Base, Rosaryville, Marlton, Saint Charles, Accokeek, Bryans Road, Brandywine, Hughesville, Baden, Potomac Heights, Aquasco, Bryantown, Pomfret, Port Tobacco Village, Port Tobacco, and White Plains. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. They will send your report to the National Weather Service office in Sterling Virginia. && LAT...LON 3858 7669 3848 7701 3852 7710 3859 7713 3880 7685 3860 7668 TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 241DEG 39KT 3858 7701 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$ KR

Interestingly enough...this first batch IS getting ready to split around my BY. Meh, there's some stuff going on out there in WV of interest... 2024-06-26_17-15-50.mp4

Oh, brother...I spit water over my keyboard on the "that's a lie" part. My wife and I watch the next-door neighbors load up their little kids at 0830 daily to take them to swim practice, and even earlier on Sat mornings for their swim meets, and we think...."Thank GOD we don't have to do that anymore!" Seriously, NVSL was fun and fresh and new when our sons were little guys 15+ years ago, and I love to read/see the documented experiences of next-gen families in this forum having those same experiences. In our case, it became a little bit less fun/fresh/new in the pre-teen years...and then just sort of got to be a drag for the last 1-2 years of our involvement...which, ironically enough, is when my wife became a co-team rep and I stepped up to arrange officials for each meet. In any event...I love to read these NVSL anecdotes.

Yeah, I posted a reading of 103 in main obs thread a short while ago, which shocked me...because Sat felt so much more oppressive outside than it does this afternoon. There's a few cells down there in the Madison/Culpeper region that could either graze us from the south, or potentially expand to hit us, too. We'll probably see within the next 45-60 minutes. 2024-06-26_14-57-28.mp4

Oh, that we HAD the SwimTopia app for alerts on that fateful, severe weather laden Relay Carnival evening so long ago! That, and today's smartphones in general, make keeping in touch at potentially dicey times like later this evening SO much easier now.

Radar is intense up there...looks like Erie is about to get the snot beat out of it.

Currently 103/66 IMBY. Had some hazy high clouds over the lunch hour, but that's scoured out now, with full sun. With HVAC running to beat the band.

That sounds GREAT. And parking passes for the visiting pool...NIIICCCCE! We didn't score those until my wife because a team rep for a few years...

Worst NVSL memory EVER, from about 15 years ago...getting the kids to the host pool in Springfield area around 5:30 p.m. for relay carnival, when (of course!) it started thundering. There were severe storms in the area at the time, but it appeared on radar as if they were going to miss our area...but did not. We got 2-3 rounds of really bad storms, while stuck in insufferably hot/humid conditions sitting in our minivan with a handful of bored kids drawing on fogged-up windows. We were continually rain-delayed until well after 9 p.m., when everyone was cleared to hit the pool deck and start RC. Don't think we got home until 11:30 that night...UGH.

Uggggggh, Rt. 15. Visited the Leesburg/Luckets area last weekend on a breweries crawl and forgot how horrendously painful Rt. 15 is. A weekend day, but still...I hear the traffic reports on weekdays, and it's never pretty. Feel for folks up in that corner of NoVA.

I-295 between the Beltway and downtown used to be brutal in terms of speed cams a number of years ago, to the point where I just stopped using the f*cking road because I got a half dozen tickets in just a few month's time for only being a few miles over the speed limit.

As annoying as THIS (and your previous example) is/are...just as annoying is I-95 between Baltimore and Washington *AND* the B/W Parkway, literally ALL weekend long. MD/DC drivers on the BeeDubs Pkwy nearly always drive me to the point of going postal. NoVA has horrendous traffic...but we don't have the corner on the market.

Currently 93/70 IMBY. A light scud of hazy cloud cover today, which actually brings some relief, at least enough to sit on the back patio...WITH A FAN...today. Friends, family, neighbors...everyone is bitching about the heat and humidity right now. I don't care, I love it...this is just training ground for when we move to the SC low country in the next couple of years.

Looks absolutely DELISH. And bless your heart, taking your time for the flower garnish. My adult sons would pick that out of the fruit bowl, examine it thoroughly, then toss it on the table and say to me, "Dad, WTF???" Uncultured heathens are what we apparently raised in this household...

95 IMBY. That's a slight bust higher than the forecasted high here today. With an occasional breeze, it's bearable.