It does pay to wait. The low-topped convection that was popping up all afternoon began to give way to cells with tops over 30,000 feet by the 5:00 hour, so I rolled out the driveway to scope out a line of storms approaching our area. From a vantage …

Over the past 48 hours our backyard rain gauge registered ~1.2″ of much-needed rain as the unnamed coastal storm plowed inland over South Carolina. Now it’s Saturday afternoon and I’m watching college football on the TV and keeping a watchful (wishful…

Who saw this coming? The models earlier this week hinted at some rain and a little wind, but wow! All of a sudden we have a storm knocking on our Mid-Atlantic doorstep that could be labeled any one of three types of systems. The Sterling WFO di…

I’m trying this new look out as I thought it was time for a change. The darker background seems to bring out more details in the photos, so that itself is enough to warrant the change. As far as the weather goes we are having a spectacular late sum…

It’s only mid-September and I’m already feeling the approach of SDS (supercell deprivation syndrome), the stormchaser’s bane associated with a decided lack of storm potential. With a mini-drought underway there doesn’t appear to be a reasonable chance…

With only a 20% chance of storms and not much indication of convection I was surprised to see this radar depiction near dinnertime. Even tho’ the better looking storms were to the north I chose to roll out the driveway at 6:10 pm to go look at the cel…

Yesterday did indeed have chaseable storms in Virginia…they were just a bit too early in the day and too far south and east for me to be tempted. A nice line of storms formed southeast of Tappahannock not long after lunch yesterday, but I didn’t hea…

Tomorrow looks like it could be one of those rare non-tropical September chase days. A summer-ending cold front is forecast to sweep through and trigger storms in the Mid-Atlantic. I’ve peeked at the models, and they are showing a small amount of wind…

Yep, she was here and now she’s gone…just like that, altho’ she did leave behind some gusty winds and 3.75″ of rain in our backyard gauge. Next item of interest is a cold frontal passage sometime on Tuesday with a forecast that hints at a few storms…

I’m sitting here in the kitchen waiting for the coffee to finish dripping through the filter and listening to the copious amounts of rain beating down on the roof. (BTW, the Orioles lost badly last night!) This has been a rare event the past several w…