yoda Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 24 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said: Hearing some thunder and radar shows some stuff aimed right for me -- but I've seen that many times before. We'll see After a cloudy start, it got properly hot today! You now have a STW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09-10 analogy Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Just now, Wxtrix said: i could hear the emergency vehicle sirens --turns out yet another house got struck by lighting and was on fire. Oh, yeah, vehicles. They've got sirens too. I'm so dense sometimes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxtrix Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 8 minutes ago, 09-10 analogy said: Oh, yeah, vehicles. They've got sirens too. I'm so dense sometimes. it'd be nice to have storm sirens though. I lived in Minneapolis for a few years in the pre-internet years and they were very useful if you weren't near a radio or a TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Got up to 91 briefly, 88 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 21 minutes ago, 09-10 analogy said: You have severe weather sirens out there? I usually associate that with places like Oklahoma or Kansas. Of course I've never lived in a semi-rural area ... correct me if I'm wrong if you don't ... so maybe that's de rigueur in most places. I remember driving through S/C Oklahoma once, through the town of Frederick. On the SW side of town, every other telephone pole, it seemed, had a speaker. I assume it was for the sirens and that they were located there to warn of storms/tornadoes approaching from the SW. But that's just supposition on my part; maybe there were there just to play selections from a Rogers and Hammerstein musical on Cadillac Day, for all I know. Anyway, the sight of those sirens made me think of tiny vulnerable towns in the Great Plains, which could be suddenly eradicated from existence by a Greensburg/Udall type event, and these little sirens were a brave way of trying to mitigate existential (and usually nighttime) destruction. Jarrettsville Volunteer Fire Company would sound their box call siren - at the time a Federal Signal STH-10 - on continuous blast for 5 minutes whenever the area was in a red box (tornado warning). After they replaced the STH-10 with a Whelen Omni-Alert OA-2, this stopped. I guess now with most civilians carrying cell phones capable of receiving alerts they don't bother. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 16 minutes ago, yoda said: You now have a STW! I started to split on me and I thought here we go again. But now it redeveloped some to my west so i'm hoping! Looking at radar some people could get the training 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Climo report DCA: 96 BWI: 97 IAD: 98 (tied record) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Gray wall of rain less than a mile away. So tantalizingly close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 14 minutes ago, MN Transplant said: Climo report DCA: 96 BWI: 97 IAD: 98 (tied record) You were right. IAD went higher despite early cloud cover because of the local drought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Just now, Terpeast said: Gray wall of rain less than a mile away. So tantalizingly close Just now, Terpeast said: Gray wall of rain less than a mile away. So tantalizingly close Its coming... the storms in Loudoun are moving SE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 9 minutes ago, Terpeast said: You were right. IAD went higher despite early cloud cover because of the local drought Hopefully the storms coming that way hold together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 1 minute ago, MN Transplant said: Hopefully the storms coming that way hold together. This looks like the best opportunity for my area all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 3 minutes ago, Terpeast said: This looks like the best opportunity for my area all year. So far just gusty winds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoVaWx Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Under a severe thunderstorm warning now, hope it holds together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Winding down with a disappointing 0.10. It just never was more than light with maybe a couple minutes of moderate. Oh well at least the temp is a pleasant 75 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 1 hour ago, EastCoast NPZ said: Another day without rain. Yep I got split once again. Got the sponge wring out of a whole .02”. I am now calling it the Ballenger Creek Split as you can literally see it happening just about 3 miles out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATECH Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Currently 97, sitting in the pool, grilling burgers with inbound storms….pretty good Thursday 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATECH Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Storms probably miss to my north, but did water the grass so probably inbound deluge. Outflow boundary looks decent so maybe more storms fire. Gonna put down the umbrella just in case! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Wake me when there is a LP coming up from the gulf south. This is just tiresome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 It was hot on the beach today. There was a breeze or else it would have been miserable 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Rained pretty good here with gusty winds...much needed cooled things down to 73 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Cluster weakened as it passed over me, but it still produced winds strong enough to give trees a good shaking and even tossed a garbage bin across the street. And… it rained pretty good. We needed this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 53 minutes ago, Mrs.J said: Yep I got split once again. Got the sponge wring out of a whole .02”. I am now calling it the Ballenger Creek Split as you can literally see it happening just about 3 miles out. Dang now I see some stuff that just popped to your north moving east. Sorry! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 3 hours ago, GramaxRefugee said: Was it @Jebman? Been mostly cloudless here (and in Bowie) It was me. I was visiting, and because I am from the Texas Heat Dome Inferno Region, I think a 104 heat index is a major Arctic incursion. It was downright comfortable out, and I enjoyed the run. Its been so damned hot in Texas, that we think upper 90s are like a Thanksgiving weather front in Boston. We had at least a week of heat indices near 120 degrees. It was like 103 with dewpoints in the upper 70s, believe it or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 1 hour ago, BlizzardNole said: Dang now I see some stuff that just popped to your north moving east. Sorry! Mr J has gone into his office this whole week. He works from home still but they are working on getting a product out. Anyways it was taking him a long time to get home. He took 28 and got caught in stopped traffic in the storms down there. Finally took a detour only to encounter a downed tree. Was able to get around it and get home. Was probably still better than 270 in the rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormchaserchuck1 Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Another beautiful sunset, pinks and orange all around on the clouds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 1.38 inches of rain. Had 0.73 2 days ago, so that is good. Some progress in this arid time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Clipped with 0.11” yesterday. Clouds aren’t a problem this morning. Sterling is being aggressive and going for 100 at DCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 not a drop yesterday. preparing myself for 95 degree heat at softball tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 We could hear thunder and radar had heavy rain aimed right at us for over an hour and it kept fading right as it got to us. Nice swath of 1 inch plus amounts just to the west but only 0.1 for me. That was a huge disappointment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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