I haven’t seen any mention in the local media of the hailstorms that rumbled through our area last night (see above radar view). This link from the Storm Prediction Center indicates a trained spotter (read “SkyWarn”) report of up to BASEBALL-sized hai…
Oh, today was hot with 90 degree F temperatures but the humidity was bearable. Additionally, a peek at the sky and the horizon showed relatively clear air, without the haze that usually accompanies a hot and humid summertime day in our area. However …
So where did today’s showers come from? The low pressure still meandering off the East Coast dragged in a cold pool of air over us in the upper levels. Since we all know warm air rises, having relatively cold air above a warm surface layer thus provi…
It seems as if the typical summertime humidity blanket has descended over us, but it looks like we’ll catch a break this coming week. An upper level low is forecast to move off the Atlantic coast and provide us with northwesterly winds (and subsequent…
The area outlined in red in the above radar depiction is usually dubbed the “Ring of Fire”. It is caused by having a surface high pressure system parked over the central Gulf Coast that is suppressing convection over the deep South and circulating moi…
This radar view from 7:21 pm tonight shows an arc-shaped feature west of Baltimore that caught my attention. When I looped the image I noticed the feature was moving westward before it eventually diffused and died. Not having seen the earlier radar i…
I sloshed my way out to our backyard rain gauge to pour out the 0.6″ of rain it had collected since I last emptied it (Monday?). I haven’t felt that degree of turf “squishiness” in mid-June for a number of years; normally it feels like that in late M…
Although we are currently getting a break from the storms of late that might not last long. Yet another in a series of spineless (i.e. weak) cold fronts has stalled over top of us and will bring periodic waves of rain and storms into the region. Thi…
Yet another weak cold front will be moving our way this week and stalling in the vicinity, providing a chance of thunderstorms each day starting tomorrow afternoon. That is to be expected since we are now officially in meteorological summer, that havi…
Storm in southern Stafford county.
