BethesdaWX Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I'm up at my townhouse in germantown with the gf, and the Old single pane windows are not sealed well, the wind is making quite a racket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Mowed lawn for 1st time this afternoon - backyard soil is very moist. Grass is growing in many yards - wet soil conds and now another major storm about to smash into N VA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 That is a rather large system chugging our way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Heavy rain and a squall front moved through between 3:30AM and 6:30AM. It put down a lot of water quickly, 0.97" as of 7AM. It continues to rain lightly with occasional moderate rates. I have standing water around the edges of the mulch beds. The wet conditions continue...grass is growing like crazy around here. If you don't cut every 3-4 days you will have a mess. 4.78" MTD Dogwoods and redbuds bloomed this past week. Pears are fully leafed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Another line of very heavy rain came through just before 8AM with gusty winds. Up to 1.66" now since 3:30AM. No thunder, just a heavy downpour. It got dark enough for the street lights to come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Not really impressed with this. Maybe we'll get a squall line later today, but I doubt we'll see much in the way of severe weather north of EZF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 By the way, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to maintain any nice/warm weather pattern any time soon. Monday and Tuesday both look iffy, Wednesday looks good with highs in the mid-upper 70s, but then we just cool off again. I'm just hoping for clear next Saturday as Blackwater NWR is beckoning me and the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harv_poor Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Raining in Vienna. As an avid weekend golfer, it would be nice to play one round that is not freezing, wet/raining or windy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 more rain than I was expecting this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 There is a Obs thread for the storm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 There is a Obs thread for the storm... Thanks AEON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I ended up with 2.14" of rain this morning. Several small steams in the area went out of their banks, but nothing major. There is still a lot of ground water running off the sloping areas this afternoon. MTD precip - 5.92" which is 4.34" above monthly normal. My YTD precip is now 5.17" above normal using CRWs average. I don't recall being that far above normal in recent memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Tornado watch, mayb e a radar loop will stimulate this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I ended up with 2.14" of rain this morning. Several small steams in the area went out of their banks, but nothing major. There is still a lot of ground water running off the sloping areas this afternoon. MTD precip - 5.92" which is 4.34" above monthly normal. My YTD precip is now 5.17" above normal using CRWs average. I don't recall being that far above normal in recent memory. 2.45" here today. Wet on both ends of the state at the same time. Unusual these past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 2.45" here today. Wet on both ends of the state at the same time. Unusual these past few years. Yes, this system sure put down a lot of water even though it didn't look that bad from the radar returns. It must have been the way it trained northward as it slowly moved east. I had two separate heavy lines embedded in the yellows sweep through, one at 5AM and the other just before 8AM. After running some errands later in the day I noticed how high the water got on the nearby streams. The little creek that runs through our subdivision was almost running over the road at the crossing. Where it dumps into the city reservoir it ran over Rt 34 leaving a lot of wood debri and mud on the road. A lot of places had gravel wash onto the road from the side ditches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 My mother says a tree snapped 1/2 way up behind her house in Cabin John, will take pics when I can get there tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeride Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I live in Thurmont, MD and we received over 5" of rain yesterday. The basement is flooded, life sucks right now. I hope it doesn't rain for a month, this is like living in swamp land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 This pattern sucks!!!!!! Was looking like a nicer week a few days ago, but now clouds/showers every day this week, and temps below normal everyday except for Wednesday, where we go above normal for one stinking day. I would love to have a bunch of days in a row where it's sunny and no rain. Bleh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 This pattern sucks!!!!!! Was looking like a nicer week a few days ago, but now clouds/showers every day this week, and temps below normal everyday except for Wednesday, where we go above normal for one stinking day. I would love to have a bunch of days in a row where it's sunny and no rain. Bleh. SSWings often take time to mainfest in the AO/NAO ensembles. But those here thinking the +NAO would be upcoming were going to bust...when the SSW began showing up, all bets were off. QBO should be going Easterly, so we should see more of this IMO, especially given the solar factor geomagnetically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 i took a walk with my new vid cam.. first ever editing experience... perhaps need some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avdave Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 i took a walk with my new vid cam.. first ever editing experience... perhaps need some work. Nice quality of the vid too. That big bird is called a blue Heron. Ive never been to RC park. One day we will get to check it out. Overnight low so far 44*, kind of OVC skies out there now Some showers look to pass to our north, snow in NW PA April 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 i took a walk with my new vid cam.. first ever editing experience... perhaps need some work. You could not have asked for a nicer day to "practice" your vid making. Your succinct scene titling need more flair. Instead of 'dogs running' embellish it by saying '3 dogs running while their liberal owners do nothing'. The HD quality is very noticable. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 We had a dry, steady west wind yesterday that came in big gusts. It dried things out nicely to the point that dust was blowing off the baseball infiield yesterday afternoon at my son's practice, despite all that rain the day before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marked8 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 The Great lakes are the place to be today. Web cam: http://www.fm.wmich.edu/ap/webcam/sangren/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 You could not have asked for a nicer day to "practice" your vid making. Your succinct scene titling need more flair. Instead of 'dogs running' embellish it by saying '3 dogs running while their liberal owners do nothing'. The HD quality is very noticable. Good stuff. Yeah it's a neat little cam.. Tiny actually. It's got pretty good quality for the price.. Carl Zeiss lens probably a big part of it. Yesterday was quite beautiful. And Dave, I knew it was a Heron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Yeah it's a neat little cam.. Tiny actually. It's got pretty good quality for the price.. Carl Zeiss lens probably a big part of it. Yesterday was quite beautiful. And Dave, I knew it was a Heron. Been looking at maybe getting a little vidcam myself - what type/model is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Been looking at maybe getting a little vidcam myself - what type/model is it? http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HDR-CX110-Definition-Handycam-Camcorder/dp/B0031RGKZI It has really good reviews and it's literally a pocket size piece -- I was surprised how small it was when I got it. It's definitely below the quality of HD you'd get from a newer SLR that has vid etc, but it's not bad it seems. Has good low light capability as well, which was one reason I got it. I'll undoubtedly use it a lot around here but it was spurred on by wanting vid capability in the Plains in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Mike Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Flooding in Georgetown http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Flooding-on-Georgetown-Waterfront-120062719.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Maybe there is something the Electric Powerplant could do? There is a powerplant about 1 mile downriver from me with a Dam on the potomac. The riverbank here is very high, so releasing less water may help the situation down there in DC/little falls. I can see the river and most of the rocks usually exposed are covered completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrederickWX Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Potomac is over the tow path at Harper's Ferry and continues about half way to Brunswick. no idea of how it looked after that due to the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs. it is the highest I've seen it since the 100 year flood in '96. Hopefully, this won't be a recurring theme over the spring and summer - I like biking and walking the path, but mud and water ruin that. Sent from my Thunderbolt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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