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We are soon the point where someone funny on here posted that image a few days ago and said "the megalopolis goes dark now"....

It is just pouring wind at my place. New experience for me, going through something like this.

yup--0z tonight ;)

models ftw

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RECENT OBSERVATIONS

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* 70 MPH WIND GUST AT BISHOPS HEAD MARYLAND AT 340 PM.

* 68 MPH WIND GUST AT POINT LOOKOUT MARYLAND AT 520 PM.

* 60 MPH WIND GUST AT ORIOLE PARK IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND AT 500 PM.

* 56 MPH WIND GUST AT PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION AT 248 PM.

* 55 MPH WIND GUST AT THOMAS POINT LIGHT ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AT

4:00 PM.

* 55 MPH WIND GUST AT REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT AT 549 PM.

* 47 MPH WIND GUST AT MARSHALL BWI AIRPORT AT 118 PM.

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Center passes to our north. If there is a break in precip it will be brief. Edge of heavy precip S of acy is already starting to rotate N.

Thanks. That was my reasoning as well, but I wasn't sure whether there would be a break for a while considering the breakup of the classic cyclonic structure. When I saw Zwyts' post of the modeled precip, though, I deleted my original post because if there's a possible 4 additional inches of rain then any break must be pretty brief.

TL;DR: thank you for the confirmation.

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New band rotating in seems to have ratcheted it up a notch. Pretty heavy roars. I wish it was still daylight!

Edit: wrong thread.

On Topic: center of circulation is just starting to hit the brakes. Simply an amazing event. And the models have done an unbelievable job with something so extraordinary.

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So everyone here has been saying that the worst winds will be when the low makes its closest approach to the area in a few hours, but the models all insist the surface winds will die down as the night goes on and the low weakens. Can a met explain that discrepancy? Are the models just not very good at surface winds?

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So everyone here has been saying that the worst winds will be when the low makes its closest approach to the area in a few hours, but the models all insist the surface winds will die down as the night goes on and the low weakens. Can a met explain that discrepancy? Are the models just not very good at surface winds?

The next couple hours will be the strongest winds as the heavier showers move through. The models still have strong winds at 925 through 11 PM then they drop off. When we get near the center we might or might not be close enough to to the eye for the winds to weaken and die down. I think there's a good chance of that. Once the storm goes by we'll still have decent gusts...maybe to gusts to 30 to 40 mph as the system will be weakening slowly as it shifts away from the ocean and because vertical with the upper low/trough but that may depend on whether we stay in some heavier showers to help momentum translate the winds down to the surface. Of course the models may also be too slow with the movement of the showers and stronger winds.

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