needbiggerboat Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Out you way your screen name would be handy this morning No kidding. Although my benchmark is 15+ inches over 4 days in Buxton, NC...Nov 1985. Needed either a boat or SUV with big tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Finished with a storm total of 4.87" here. Just missed the 5" mark. There is a new stream in my yard that did not exist when I went to bed last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 No kidding. Although my benchmark is 15+ inches over 4 days in Buxton, NC...Nov 1985. Needed either a boat or SUV with big tires. 2 feet of water in the road will float an suv and if the water is moving can float you into a stream where the SUV can flip. Lots of drownings occur because people thin SUVs are safer to drive than cars in floods. Hate to be preaching but......stick with the boat. Plus you can fish from a boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Only 0.3" IMBY...I feel cheated. I would too if it wasn't for the thunder from the storms to my south constantly waking me up all night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Another non-event in Leesburg. Heard the storms all night, though. Spent the day yesterday trimming and pruning in that lovely humidity. So I am counting today as a 10 despite the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Nice soaking rain here. Nothing too heavy which is fine by me. I hate the extended downpours. That's what causes floods. Moderate rain all day is no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 On 70 heading West to OH this morning. Starting to drive out of the rain. That lightning this morning though was eye popping. Woke me up with an illuminated cat staring at me on the bed side table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 yes..ENS support it and Euro supports it to a lesser extent....Wed-Fri looks like the target period, though the GFS says we torch starting Monday......we are going to get hot... GFS starting Monday is like 94, 94, 98, 97, 97 Euro is something like 89, 89, 93, 95, 95 ENS is 96, 93, 97, 97, 95 Seems to me that heat forecasts this summer have pretty much under performed. Hoping the same holds true for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needbiggerboat Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 2 feet of water in the road will float an suv and if the water is moving can float you into a stream where the SUV can flip. Lots of drownings occur because people thin SUVs are safer to drive than cars in floods. Hate to be preaching but......stick with the boat. Plus you can fish from a boat. Good advice and agree. In this case it was mostly standing water. My dad and I did cast our lines from the front porch, for kicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Seems to me that heat forecasts this summer have pretty much under performed. Hoping the same holds true for this one. Even if it does by a few degrees, unless it becomes super dry the next few days its going to be super humid with all the moisture around... so instead of 95/75... it will be 92/75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Even if it does by a few degrees, unless it becomes super dry the next few days its going to be super humid with all the moisture around... so instead of 95/75... it will be 92/75 Couldn't that also aid in the development of scattered afternoon thunderstorms? Those were notably absent in the heat waves of the past two summers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clueless Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Even if it does by a few degrees, unless it becomes super dry the next few days its going to be super humid with all the moisture around... so instead of 95/75... it will be 92/75 Exactly, underperforming In mid-July around here doesn't mean much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Finished with a storm total of 4.87" here. Just missed the 5" mark. There is a new stream in my yard that did not exist when I went to bed last night. Just got to the office - was going to work from home, but I have no power and no land line working at home. Of course, our land lines go out every time it rains. Thank you, Verizon. Several bridges flooded around Manassas/Catharpin near my house (Bull Run bridges). The retention pond behind Dulles on 606 was flooded all the way up to the road. I have never seen it that high. There was a tractor trailer flipped over on the Dulles Access Road when I drove by - just inside the last entry point off the toll road - and the access road is now backed up like 8 miles. I am sure there are lots of angry people in that traffic jam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needbiggerboat Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Another patch popped up over this area...Like we need more rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Watching the radar as the rains move W is cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 The retention pond behind Dulles on 606 was flooded all the way up to the road. I have never seen it that high. The only other time I've seen that was after the June 2006 rains. Once the water receded, you could see the high water mark up in the trees, and it was probably 6-8 feet above it's usual level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 That was pretty speciaal last night. From 11:30-1:30 I had lightning every 3-5 seconds and some periods it was near constant. Also had lengthy periods where before the rumble of thunder died out another one began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 What an odd system with the retrograding 500 low and massive moisture. Just waiting for the pivot now. http://climate.cod.edu/flanis/nexrad.php?type=LWX-N0Q-1-200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 What an odd system with the retrograding 500 low and massive moisture. Just waiting for the pivot now. http://climate.cod.edu/flanis/nexrad.php?type=LWX-N0Q-1-200 Odd but interesting....wondering now if the pivot will get back far enough west to put me back in moderate rain...so far 0.33 today. It didn't start raining until close to 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Precip area starting to redevelop/move back west? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Precip area starting to redevelop/move back west? its been moving back west Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 its been moving back west maybe we're shifting east? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 its been moving back west Individual echoes were moving west, but the western edge of the precip was moving east up until the last couple hours or so. Rather interesting radar loop over the last 6 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 What an odd system with the retrograding 500 low and massive moisture. Just waiting for the pivot now. http://climate.cod.edu/flanis/nexrad.php?type=LWX-N0Q-1-200 COD website has a funny side, click here: http://climate.cod.edu/flanis/nexrad/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Individual echoes were moving west, but the western edge of the precip was moving east up until the last couple hours or so. Rather interesting radar loop over the last 6 hours. Yeah, it's a interesting hodo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 maybe we're shifting east? If the sun sets in the west then color me shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 BWI would be on it's way to breaking a 1898 record low max (73) if it wasn't for it being 75° at 2 AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 closest PWS near my house has 0.58 on the day... still pouring at home (even raining nicely at work too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Watching this radar reminds me of watching the snow storms last winter. With the same result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Non stop steady rain all day here. Floppy hat night at the O's tonight so hopefully it rains itself out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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