With today’s rain – unofficially a half-inch in my backyard rain gauge – and a chance of storms forecast for both tomorrow and Wednesday we will put a dent in the dry weather that has plagued us so far this summer. The other benefit is that the t…
Neither the SPC nor the local models provided me with much hope for strong convection today in areas that I could chase, and so far they’ve both been right. The really “good” stuff was north of DC this afternoon so I settled for a generic cell th…
I snapped this photo of an apparent wall cloud and funnel over Lexington Park MD on the afternoon of June 15th. Nothing severe was expected and it didn’t last very long so I didn’t call it in as a spotter report. It still made for a classic…
Not sure about this but the NWS Sterling office is forecasting thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon, and at least one model is showing wind speed and directional shear for Northern VA accompanied by sufficient instability and moisture to fire up a severe s…
According to this radar summary the city and immediate surroundings received at least 0.6″ of rain in this morning’s deluge, while northwestern Spotsylvania county was drenched under nearly 2.5″. This should help settle the local dust and green u…
OK, so when did 97 degrees for a daily high sound more appealing than 103? That’s what Shannon Airport registered as the high today, breaking the run of triple digits this week. Unfortunately, the way that string was broken was by the high …
The heat’s still here and so am I since there are no storms to chase and thus little or nothing to post over at the StormsRUs blog. The high temperature at Shannon Airport (why DID the National Weather Service switch the official Fredericksburg r…
Not only did Shannon Airport register 102 degrees F today but the three H’s made an appearance: Hazy, Hot, and Humid. Even in yesterday’s heat the sky was still blue and the air was relatively clear, but today I’m seeing a definite haze acc…
Besides being HOT in the Mid-Atlantic it has also been dry, to the point where the grass is crunchy and the last storm chase is fading into distant memory. With the approach of a retrograding upper low the chances for rain should increase a bit b…
This graphic from the Climate Prediction Center sums up this week succinctly:The interesting thing is that both the long range forecast models I peruse are indicating that a low pressure center (a tropical system?) will move westward from the Atlantic …
