Scuddz Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Watchi it blow up as soon as it passes 95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Coming down so hard I can barely see across the river. Watching the boats pull against their lines from the wind gusts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 This is almost uncanny. Moderate to heavy rains no more than a mile north. Moderate rains no more than a mile south. Here? Sprinkles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris87 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 everyone gets split sometimes.. Dc gets split every time.. Just about. There is no observational basis for a DC split. See below study, it is recent (published this year) and is an analysis of warm season convection over the NE US as a function of radar and cloud-to-ground lightning. dendrite.somas.stonybrook.edu/Presentations/Colleetal_WAF2011.ppt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Didn't you get storms early yesterday? Nope, south of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Rain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Unless it is virga raining yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I got some rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Rain! Ditto. I can post again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FXW176 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Maybe a few tenths of liquid, as my rain gauge is out of order, but over 16 minutes of constant thunder, as my Sponge Bob clock in the garage works just fine. Yipee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Looks like another middle finger from mother nature as the southern fringe of the cells over Baltimore is about a mile north of my house. I wouldn't give up just yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Mike Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 It rained. It stoped. it's raining again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Ditto. I can post again Told ya so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Lolz. Mini split over me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 It was a wind whipped FROTH, heavy rain whipped by 30 to 36 mph winds and DANGEROUS lightning. Inch and a half of rain, nearly three inches in past 72 hours from storms. Lawn is an emerald green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 About 0.4" and a great daytime lightning show. Sorry about you guys that got missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 There is no observational basis for a DC split. See below study, it is recent (published this year) and is an analysis of warm season convection over the NE US as a function of radar and cloud-to-ground lightning. dendrite.somas.stonybrook.edu/Presentations/Colleetal_WAF2011.ppt cool.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 About 0.4" and a great daytime lightning show. Sorry about you guys that got missed. somehow i managed to get less than the 3 drops i got yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Whatta ya know, the gap filled in at the last minute for some nice heavy rain. All because I had the charcoal grill hot of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris87 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 cool.. I know it's nice what we can do with long observational records of radar/lightning now. I also remember an article in BAMS several years back which was titled something like "Do Thunderstorms Avoid Meteorologists?", basically addressing the myths perpetrating from areas which have large meteorologist populations (i.e. DC, Norman) but I can't track it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 So... that was kinda boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 I know it's nice what we can do with long observational records of radar/lightning now. I also remember an article in BAMS several years back which was titled something like "Do Thunderstorms Avoid Meteorologists?", basically addressing the myths perpetrating from areas which have large meteorologist populations (i.e. DC, Norman) but I can't track it down. I'm well aware it's at least partly urban myth.. But still, sometimes... Norman area also has highest per capita tornadoes... So storms must not miss all mets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Very heavy rain here. Had to pull over because it was so hard to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 It did rain but only enough to wet the ground. Another fail snatched from the jaws of win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris87 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'm well aware it's at least partly urban myth.. But still, sometimes... Norman area also has highest per capita tornadoes... So storms must not miss all mets. It's mostly urban myth. I found that study for you, I actually suggest everyone to read it, if anything it's really interesting. http://journals.amet...5/BAMS-86-3-341 You must not know many people from Norman....they sound just like most of the people on this board...when in reality they just don't know how good they have it. And what is great about this study is that DC was one of the focus areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Subject struck by lightning at Fort Smallwood Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hmm...a few minutes of a power outage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 It's mostly urban myth. I found that study for you, I actually suggest everyone to read it, if anything it's really interesting. http://journals.amet...5/BAMS-86-3-341 You must not know many people from Norman....they sound just like most of the people on this board...when in reality they just don't know how good they have it. And what is great about this study is that DC was one of the focus areas. I'll take a look. I'm sure it's mostly psychological... Most people that get missed by convection which is often broken don't even pay attention enough to notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris87 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'll take a look. I'm sure it's mostly psychological... Most people that get missed by convection which is often broken don't even pay attention enough to notice. Exactly, we tend to remember the let down better than the jackpot. Now you can make an argument that there are urban effects related to convection, but those relationships are not clear cut and are very much an area of active research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris87 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'll take a look. I'm sure it's mostly psychological... Most people that get missed by convection which is often broken don't even pay attention enough to notice. Here's a recent study by a group at Purdue, who found observational and modeling-based evidence that there was a distinct urban effect on convection: I don't have AMS access at home, and based on the abstract I couldn't tell if they found that the urban effects lead to increased/decreased storm strength, but it does specifically say that the structure was more likely to be altered as it moved over the urban areas than other storms that moved over rural areas. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010JAMC1836.1?journalCode=apme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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