Today’s storms formed along a pre-frontal trough early in the afternoon, meaning I needed to get out earlier than normal to chase. Unfortunately all the NWS radars in Virginia – and possibly the nation – stopped providing internet access for roug…
The white arrow points to a southward moving outflow boundary laid down by earlier storms northwest of DC. As this image shows the boundary has already fired storms (cell just north of the center of the line) and the hope is that it will continue down…
I posted this article over at the Fredericksburg Weather blog and decided it was important enough to post here as well. Kudos to the new Virginia Tech meteorology program!!!Meanwhile, even tho’ the NWS Sterling radar is off line today I’ve been keepin…
Given that today’s cold front passage is supposed to ease back the heat and humidity I was anxious to chase the storms associated with it, so I motored up to Bealeton on Route 17 and stopped there at 3:00 pm to monitor the situation. The frontal storm…
After I pulled off the storms east of Fredericksburg I dove south to Thornburg to intercept the tornado-warned cell that continued to show rotation on radar in Orange county. This cell was moving to the east as part of the frontal line scouring out th…
Given an SPC Slight Risk and an increase in overall shear over yesterday’s model runs I awaited convection to fire today with great anticipation…and was not disappointed. When several cells approached the Stafford / King George county line from the …
These two vidcaps are from Sunday July 3rd’s storm system that rolled through the Fredericksburg area. It provided some great CG’s and strong winds, but the worst of the storm scooted by just north of us. This “chase” was notable in that my daughter …
One of the factors in Mid-Atlantic storm chasing is the presence of the Chesapeake Bay. It affects both storm access – bridges are few and far between – and storm initiation and intensification. The latter two are a direct result of t…
Knowing that today was my only shot at chasing this week I haunted the models, radar, and observations all morning and early afternoon. A lee trough ahead of a cold front was supposed to fire some storms as the SPC had our area under a Slight Risk eve…
With a cold frontal passage through the area early Friday afternoon I was hoping for at least one decent cell to chase. There wasn’t – it all happened well to the east – but I did at least identify and track a convective line that eventually intensifi…
