Midlo Snow Maker Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 What happened to all the T storms in the forecast? or even the rain? Drizzle and blah. coming now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 .60" in 20 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanVA Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 We need a good thunderstorm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billabong Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Two rather large outflow boundaries collided over the area causing the squished warmer air in between to rise and create some nice storms. Pretty interesting on radar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathervswife Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 2.4" since Thursday night. I shall shut up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Druff Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 3.12 inches since Friday... what a train that blew through here this morning. Some pretty good claps of thunder and 1.50 inches in about 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteoutWX Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 3.12 inches since Friday... what a train that blew through here this morning. Some pretty good claps of thunder and 1.50 inches in about 2 hours. Yep third thunderstorm of the day rolling through here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Druff Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Yep third thunderstorm of the day rolling through here now I didn't pick up much more rain from this line... less than 0.1" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Druff Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I didn't pick up much more rain from this line... less than 0.1" Scratch that... 0.2" of rain... 1.69" for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathervswife Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 5.4" since Thursday night now. 3" from those 2 bands earlier today. Flooding and road closures everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golia1w Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Classic dumb question, I'm sure, but I've noticed the past few days that the storms have been moving almost constantly from the southeast to the northwest. I've seen this happen before for short periods, but I don't recall having seen it happen for so long. Can anyone explain to me why? And is it unusual, or am I just stupendously unobservant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inudaw Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Its not an overly common occurrence for this time of year... The main cause of this set of events has been the cut off nature of this system off to our south and west. Normally march is considered the prime time for such cut offs to form. May is NOT the usual for such cut offs.. especially one that is lingering around for this long. For storms to move from the south east to the north west in this region; we need circulation center off to our south-west ... as has been the case for the last two and a half days. I say usually we get maybe one or two cut offs that produce convection (typically late in the winter.. through mid spring). Usually its only a day.. or two max... this is a bit of prolonged and late season version of such an occurrence. A majority of the time our convection is associated with strong moving cold fronts with low pressure systems that pass to our north and west.. leading to convection to come from the south west/ west/ or north westerly direction as the cold front sweeps through. Another way we get atypical convection movement .. is associated with tropical cyclones approaching the area from the south and east... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golia1w Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Thanks for the detailed explanation--I never actually understood how that worked before (except for the tropical cyclones). Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billabong Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Another way we get atypical convection movement .. is associated with tropical cyclones approaching the area from the south and east... That's what it has been reminding me of. The other day there was a cell riding the border moving nearly due west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brubert Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 WOWEE!! We just had a humdinger hail storm!! .87 rain/hail; looked like snow. The hail was small tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 First 90's coming up next weeku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanVA Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 First 90's coming up next weeku I have been loving the seasonable weather. It feels abnormal after last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 I have been loving the seasonable weather. It feels abnormal after last year. It will be interesting to see where you end up after last year's record 78 days. I think we will be below average, probably on par with 2009's 33 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 I think I'll compile some heat stats to have it ready by the 1st of the month. MTF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inudaw Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Sorry about the inactivity lately in my home region.. :-x I'm not a big fan of summer time weather events (I.E. Thunderstorms...) I do like tropical weather though.... ( I think I crave the anticipation and tracking of weather events more associated with winter storms and tropical storms more than the short term tracking of daily thunderstorms.. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Sorry about the inactivity lately in my home region.. :-x I'm not a big fan of summer time weather events (I.E. Thunderstorms...) I do like tropical weather though.... ( I think I crave the anticipation and tracking of weather events more associated with winter storms and tropical storms more than the short term tracking of daily thunderstorms.. ) Same here plus this is my busy season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted May 30, 2011 Author Share Posted May 30, 2011 Been a long time since we've been this hot in May. Tomorrow looks really interesting.....could possibly hit 100, which has only happened one time during the month of May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Druff Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Been a long time since we've been this hot in May. Tomorrow looks really interesting.....could possibly hit 100, which has only happened one time during the month of May. F'ing miserable out today. Hopefully this is our worst heat wave of the season right off the bat. If I have to deal with this **** all summer again, I might ask the wife to re-locate to Barrow, AK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 F'ing miserable out today. Hopefully this is our worst heat wave of the season right off the bat. If I have to deal with this **** all summer again, I might ask the wife to re-locate to Barrow, AK. Can't imagine this summer rivaling last. Sometimes the warmth can be solely due to extremely high minimum temperatures as the case with summer 2005 and 2006 which skews the data. Summer 2010 and other top 10 hot summers like 1993 were driven by record daytime highs. We need to start using the 1981-2010 normals and means.....1971-2000 is waaayyy outdated. Could the high humidity actually keep us from hitting 100F today? It's rough out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Way to early for this but brings in the $$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patreeot Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I really feel for the landscape crews out planting today, right next to a wide open parking lot. Busch Gardens yesterday was miserable and I don't want to think what today is like there. 100 with dew of 75 at Williamsburg/Jamestown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Ric tied the record at 98 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanVA Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Even though the heat is worse, it feels better when you break/tie a record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 wow-- best storm of the year so far here, bolts smacking everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Druff Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 wow-- best storm of the year so far here, bolts smacking everywhere Definitely a good storm this morning. Very surprised when my 4.5 month old slept through it entirely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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