Refer to my previous post…so much for dry weather! An honest-to-goodness Fall nor’easter is in the process of winding up off the coast and we’ll be the recipients of plenty of rainfall per the HPC forecast graphic above. Looks like next week will b…
I’d like to report something more positive here but alas, such is not to be. I haven’t even eyeballed a storm since the August 28th cell that dropped yet another unexpected funnel (more to come later on that phenomenon), and it doesn’t seem my odds of…
Boy, it seems like it’s been a looooong time since we’ve had decent rainfall around here! This fall has been rather arid compared to the spring and early summer we experienced, and it doesn’t look like that will change anytime soon. The above graphic…
No chasing today! The front kicked through the Virginia Piedmont early today, and the afternoon sun had little or no moisture to work with west of the Chesapeake Bay. Storms have fired within the last hour on the Maryland Eastern Shore as the front h…
I always find this time of year to hold a certain sense of melancholy: – the temperatures are cooling off in their annual slide down the Fahrenheit slope (at least here in the U.S. we’re still resisting the siren call of the sterile and limiting Cel…
I’m not making any grandiose claims, but the models show a front coming through the Mid-Atlantic Saturday afternoon accompanied by some decent instability and some wind shear (mostly speed shear). I will be keeping an eye on the model developments ove…
As the two radar depictions indicate we were once again bypassed by any storm dynamics as the cold front pushed through this afternoon. The southern storms looked pretty interesting, with hail markers and indicated rotation. Alas, the section of the …
Just checked the backyard rain gauge and found 1.75″ recorded – definitely unofficial – over the past 24 hours. The surface low pressure system that dumped all this wetness on us also had an associated upper level low that popped a few showers this a…
September appears to be exiting without any chaseable storms in our area. The last possibility seems to be Monday afternoon/evening when a strong cold front is forecast to blast through here. Unfortunately there won’t be much moisture to support stor…
The few Virginia storms that did fire today didn’t begin to be chase-worthy until about 90 minutes before sunset, and these storms were – you guessed it – about a 90 minute drive from me and heading away. So I’ve been gazing hopefully at the radar and…
