I was watching TV this evening, minding my own business, when my wife poked her head in the room and said she thought was hearing thunder. Sure enough when we both stepped outside we were rewarded with a nice CG with anvil crawlers. Steppin…
This radar grab from 3:13 p.m. illustrates the showers that sped through northern Virginia today, including the warned storm shown above that had 1.0 inch hail reported near Dale City. There were also a couple of unofficial local hail reports aro…
Right now the GFS is hinting at instability in Northern Virginia each day Mon-Wed next week. Tuesday looks like the best storm chances overall, and the Storm Prediction Center in Norman OK has issued a forecast graphic to that effect. I don…
That’s my explanation and I’m sticking to it!! I headed for Culpeper this afternoon to get out from under the cold air damming wedge that gummed up northern and eastern Virginia today and wound up breaking out into sunshine by the time I made it …
That’s my explanation and I’m sticking to it!! I headed for Culpeper this afternoon to get out from under the cold air damming wedge that gummed up northern and eastern Virginia today and wound up breaking out into sunshine by the time I made it …
I was actually shocked this morning – no pun intended – to witness lightning in the western sky as I prepared to venture off to work. I strove mightily to get there before the rain to no avail, but seeing CG’s before full daylight will definitely…
At the moment the GFS model is showing some weak instability for the Mid-Atlantic both tomorrow (Monday) and Wednesday afternoons while the NAM agrees only with tomorrow’s prognostication. The upper level winds are fairly strong but unidirectiona…
I was out watching the squall line pass through last evening but didn’t see anything noteworthy other than some early season lightning. While I was out I heard this tornado warning issued for the Warrenton area. The above velocity frame gra…
Having just dumped out 2.1″ of rain from my backyard analog gauge we’re looking at that much or more to come between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday night. With this system Virginia could also see another chance at severe weather, but the …
When the convective line ahead of today’s cold front showed up over 3 hours earlier than local models had forecast – and since the SPC had issued a tornado watch for our region – I made a quick decision to head out early and plowed westward towar…
