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Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
Weather Rx
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Date: March 23, 2011 08:23PM
Hail...rain (lots)...lightning (lots)...wind building up.
Dum de dum.
Dum de dum.
Re: Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
6X
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Date: March 23, 2011 08:28PM
Re: Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: March 23, 2011 09:34PM
The worst hailstorms are usually out in the valley area between Dulles and Leesburg. Hail is fairly rare here in Reston, but out there they get nailed on a regular basis.
I was out running/rucking when this line of storms just came up. I saw a break between the first and second squall lines and I decided to take it. I got back inside before the rain got too hard, and before you could hear the thunder. The wind picked up, but that was about it. Fortunately we didn't get the same garbage that Pittsburgh did, with roofs blown off from a tornado. Either way, these storms are following the same dynamics of the one that produced hail here on Monday morning. They build up in Ohio, then lose a lot of their energy out in the mountains, but some of them maintain enough instability in the upper atmosphere to drop hail on us. The cold front is already passing over us right now, but a third pocket of storms is firing up in Ohio as we speak.
NY is lucky, they're getting snow out of this.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
I was out running/rucking when this line of storms just came up. I saw a break between the first and second squall lines and I decided to take it. I got back inside before the rain got too hard, and before you could hear the thunder. The wind picked up, but that was about it. Fortunately we didn't get the same garbage that Pittsburgh did, with roofs blown off from a tornado. Either way, these storms are following the same dynamics of the one that produced hail here on Monday morning. They build up in Ohio, then lose a lot of their energy out in the mountains, but some of them maintain enough instability in the upper atmosphere to drop hail on us. The cold front is already passing over us right now, but a third pocket of storms is firing up in Ohio as we speak.
NY is lucky, they're getting snow out of this.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
curious george
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Date: March 23, 2011 10:53PM
What building is that in the video?
Re: Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
jesushong
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Date: March 24, 2011 02:10PM
And like roaches scurrying away from the light, sure enough already getting my doorbell rung by every siding salesman within driving distance...
Re: Bad weather right now - Centreville/Chantilly area
Posted by:
6X
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Date: March 24, 2011 02:33PM
curious george Wrote:
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> What building is that in the video?
I don't know. Check with Cary.
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> What building is that in the video?
I don't know. Check with Cary.