WHERE HURRICANES, TORNADOES, LIGHTNING, BLIZZARDS, AND FLOODS ARE NO MATCH!
Only been about 25 minutes, and still awaiting confirmation (likely from the US Geological Survey / USGS) on the earthquake that struck the Washington, DC metro area. I felt it pretty good here in Gaithersburg, MD at around 5:05am this morning.
It woke me up with a bang and then a shutter that gradually decreased in [...]
Fri, July 16 2010 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Hurricanes 2009, earthquake, other news stories » No Comments
Not a tornado people!
Neither is this!
Kinda looks like palm trees…but they are baby walnut trees.
This is a sample of the hail that I reported to NWS at quartersize.
0009 100 BEALLSVILLE MONTGOMERY MD 3918 7741 (LWX)
Mon, April 26 2010 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Hurricanes 2008, Hurricanes 2009, Spring 2010, severe weather coverage, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments
December 20th, 2009 at 7:08pm EDT
Storm Report from yesterday’s EPIC and HISTORIC snow storm in Washington, DC.
DC/Baltimore NWS (LWX) reports map: “http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/events/?event=20091219 (hover over the numbers for readable information).
Wow…what a storm. I measured 20″ here at the house (Gaithersburg, MD). I spent much of the day in DC streaming live video, where it [...]
Sun, December 20 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Historical Events, Hurricanes 2009, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage, snow, summer 2009, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments
December 15th, 2009 at 10:54pm EST
Holiday Dinner in DC a success for the DC chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
Tonight I headed down to Chinatown in Washington, DC for the annual holiday gathering of the DC chapter of the American Meteorological Society (DC/AMS). It was great, the food the conversation, the atmosphere (pardon the [...]
Tue, December 15 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2009, Jason personal, Weather Events (festivials, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments
November 30th, 2009 at 3:06pm EST
Last Day of Hurricane Season
Today is the official last day for the 2009 Hurricane Season. This year was pretty inactive. My own personal story is pretty inactive as well, with the exception of my flight with the US Air Force Reserves Hurricane Hunters into Hurricane Bill. I’ll [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2009 » No Comments
Not much of an update for the blog today or tonight. I should talk about the likely frost the DC northern region is going to get, but I’ve been working on video lately. Had to move some files around a bit to free up some capture space (video files are huge). I [...]
Mon, October 19 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Hurricanes 2009, Jason personal, Past Weather Stories, Spring 2009, snow, storm chasing, summer 2009, winter 2005/2006, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments
October 15th, 2009 at 2:12pm EDT
From NOAA:
El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released today by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Such seasonal outlooks are part [...]
Thu, October 15 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2009, Press, Winter 2009/2010, snow, summer 2009 » 1 Comment
Newest tropical storm likely to be short lived.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:01pm EDT
At 5pm the National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated 91L invest as Tropical Storm Henri. According the the NHC the deep convection has persisted and is now located over the central circulation of the system.
Here is the full initial Discussion:
TROPICAL STORM HENRI [...]
Tue, October 6 2009 » Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2009 » No Comments
I’ve uploaded the preliminary draft version of the webpage from my Hurricane Hunter’s flight in August into Hurricane Bill. The link is below. Missing is more description about the Hurricane Hunters and the video. But I have uploaded photos and some commentary too.
2009 Hurricane Bill Hurricane Hunter Flight
Sun, October 4 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, tropical storm coverage, web updates » No Comments
Hurricane Fred doesn’t appear to be much
September 10th, 2009
As Hurricane Fred dances to the Southwest and west of the Cape Verde Islands, it is forecast to weaken a bit. The 11pm update is just out and it shows Hurricane Fred at 85mph (Catagory 1) status, and not expected to raise again. Lots of [...]
Thu, September 10 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, Jason personal » No Comments