Jebman Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 A 500 year Mayan Connection of moisture is now in place. A massive ridge will stay over the SE US. This will channel all of the rain well north of Dale City. If you live in the Midwest or in Pennsylvania, you better look out. Many waves of heavy rain will train over those areas until feet of rain will have accumulated. This is going to make the 1993 Floods look like child's play at the beach on a calm summer's day. It wont be long before this situation is dominating the news cycle. As is usual, our area will miss out completely, we will enjoy cloudy skies, occasional light drizzle. The NWS has been scrambling ferociously to catch up with the interplay between the massive river of moisture and the incredible SE Ridge that is sheltering us from feet of rain. Expect our rain forecasts to be revised gradually downwards, until we will end up with variable clouds and some light drizzle thru next Thursday. We fail at rain a lot, and we often do so EPICALLY. This will be the case in the next 7 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 HOURS of watching the radar emphasizes the stark fact that the rain is moving northeast, then east well north of the region. This has been the case for the past 24-36 hours. That track is stuck. Rain will continue developing in Texas then moving NE up the track, then east well north of the DC region thru at least the next 5 days. We should get away safely with only some light sporadic drizzle. None of the rain well west is moving east even a millimeter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Radar now indicates rain is all moving due northeast out of Texas. It will completely miss us in Virginia and even in Maryland. Weather for the next 7 days should be variable clouds with a 20 percent chance of a stray sprinkle or a stray couple droplets of drizzle. All of the forcing is well north of us and will remain there. All that rain I was looking forward to today and this weekend into Tuesday just went poof! I am sick with disappointment, especially when I consider all of the rain and associated flooding in Chicago that I will never get to partake of. Probability of precipitation is already trending sharply downward in Dale City. This is far worse, than missing a forecasted Archambault blizzard with 3 to 4 feet of anomalous snowfall here. I am so good at this, damn I should of been a weatherman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Dense Fog advisory here. Visibility is pretty low outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Very foggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Picked up a whopping .15" of rain this week spaced out over 4 days. Hope the river tributaries can handle all that runoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 So much fog that I can't see a thing! I can't see the apartment building north of me that's 50 yards away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AfewUniversesBelowNormal Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Looking forward to it.. It could get really warm in the day Feb 28, Mar 1, Mar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 The good news is I finally got to see some rain!!!!!! I received about.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 inch worth of rain. The BAD NEWS is the rain is moving northeast, training over the same areas, and once again, Dale City gets treated to variable clouds and 4-6 droplets of drizzle. It is not moving one millimeter east, not one! Someone built a track in the sky over the Midwest and all the rain is going along that track. It never moves east. Nothing can change it. It will do this all winter, all spring and all summer! You get used to it after a while. Midwesterners get in on all the fun. First they get months of rain then in the spring they get all the severe. We DO get our rightful share though, we get 4-6 droplets of drizzle and variable clouds and maybe some dense fog. The only thing I resent about the Midwest getting 78000 inches of rain every year is that we all have to feel so sorry for them when they get flooded and lose their homes. You'd never hear ME complain about losing MY home to a billion year flood in Dale City! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 16 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said: Picked up a whopping .15" of rain this week spaced out over 4 days. Hope the river tributaries can handle all that runoff. I got about.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 worth of rain. Everyone is heading for high ground because we are not sure the Potomac can handle all that runoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 0.62" overnight and pouring right now. Up to 4.28" for February here, with 15 of the 25 days so far having measurable precip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 50 minutes ago, WVclimo said: 0.62" overnight and pouring right now. Up to 4.28" for February here, with 15 of the 25 days so far having measurable precip. About the same here, 14 days with measurable, 7 days with a T and only 4 dry days so far. Sitting at 4.88 for the month here and it is currently still raining. Drought? LOL, I'll take a week of dry to let things wring out a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Yesterday was a bit more kind to me. Picked up .37". Have .06" since midnight. That makes 1.79" for the month. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 16 days this month have had measurable rainfall. Currently pouring here again. Monthly total is 6.55" and counting. This is literally February '98 again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 With the rain this morning, just surpassed 9" for the month of Feb. Too freakin wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 29 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said: With the rain this morning, just surpassed 9" for the month of Feb. Too freakin wet. Unreal. I should be kicked out of this subforum and made to post in the desert SW forum (if there is one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dallen7908 Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 ... and yet if you're like me you spent much of that time tracking what amounted to ~0.2" in water equivalent of snow/sleet. After being 49/50 for the last 12? hours it is now 54, perhaps that forecast high of 65, which according to the forecast discussion, was on the pessimistic side of guidance, is in reach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Drought begets drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 this weekend can be summed up by this minus the bacon and blue cheese dressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeathermanB Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Third morning in a row of foggy conditions. This morning the least foggy of them all, not foggy at my house but it is a couple miles away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Recorded measurable this am from yesterdays early morning rain, currently raining (again) and will be at least a 0.01 tomorrow. Wet, wet, wet. Have had measurable or a T for last 12 straight days. 47.8/38.3 now Where was this when it was 25/15?? Oh yeah, cold/dry, warm/wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanatos_I_Am Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I feel like I haven't seen the sun in 2 days! Still overcast in College Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtropics Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 More rain than we know what to do with around these parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Finally sun and blue skies. I am starting to feel better already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanatos_I_Am Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Just now, Mrs.J said: Finally sun and blue skies. I am starting to feel better already. Could you send any of that down to the Beltway? My god it really can be depressing to stare at low overcast for days on end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 1 minute ago, Thanatos_I_Am said: Could you send any of that down to the Beltway? My god it really can be depressing to stare at low overcast for days on end. Yep that is how I had been feeling. I can take one maybe two days of overcast but past that I really struggle. Hope it clears out for you down there before the sun goes down. It is beautiful out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 The sun is out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, mappy said: The sun is out! Yea you too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 The sun is agonizingly close here. Over 5" rain for February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 First time it’s reached 32F here in a week. If only it could stay this way forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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