Poochie’s Weather

Gotta a big storm soaking us currently. Rain will last until Thursday morning. One to two inches can be expected, with the higher amounts being where thunderstorms have affected. Flood Watch is currently in effect for our area, so watch out for ponding on roads especially in thunderstorms.  Expect it to warm up Thursday after the storm, along with breezy conditions.

This weekend is looking alright for snow. Noaa.gov has a snow-rain mix. Accuweather is thinking 1-3 inches for our region. Coastal low will form off of Carolina coast and skirt the edge of the east coast. This will take place Saturday and Saturday night, with the nighttime being the main snow accumulating time period.  I will go into further detail tomorrow and Friday.

Friday afternoon several lines of storms continued to come through our area dropping about 2 inches and producing some crazy awesome lightning. Right now (Friday Night) another line of thunderstorms is passing through our area with more downpours and lightning. Some may wonder why this continues to happen when its not a very large system but just individual lines of storms. Well I have an answer.

There is a mid-latitude trough located above the Great Lakes and it is currently charging south and east. As it moves south it surges up all the moisture and clouds that are situated in the south right near the Gulf of Mexico. Normally something like this would move through fast with a cold front and then our atmospheric conditions would change right after the thunderstorms move through. Well, Hurricane Bill is inhibiting this from happening. It will not let the airmass move through. The two systems act as a funnel  and in the middle of the funnel is the East Coast. Pretty cool interaction.

To better understand what I am talking about here is some water vapor imagery of the U.S. The black areas are areas of little water vapor and the white is the opposite. There are two black areas to the west and east of us. The one to the west is the drier air mass and the one to the east is Hurricane Bill’s outflow.  Once Bill moves through this interaction will end and so will the thunderstorms.

Saturday expect the same thing. Thunderstorms will be off and on almost all day. I love the interesting weather!

Check for severe weather updates later today.

Tornado Warning in effect for southwestern Carroll County. It is heading exactly our way. You will not be able to see the tornado, it will be covered up in rain. So watch out, stay away from windows.****UPDATE***Tornado is currently south of us. A tornado is unlikely for our area, it is south in Howard County.

Thunderstorm that just went through at 5:15pm brought  penny size hail. Biggest hail I have seen in  this area. Winds accompanied the storm up with gusts up to 40 mph. The problem is no Severe Weather Warning was issued for our area. Whenever there is hail in the thunderstorm it is automtically considered severe. With this thunderstorm temperatures dropped 22 degrees. Expect more thunderstorms and rain throughout the evening.

At 2pm a flash flood watch will be implemented for our area. The current forecast is that the heaviest rain will hit this afternoon, but I think that its going to be here a litte earlier than that. I’d say the heaviest rain will be around here at about 11am.All this heavy rain is in front of a cold front, and when the cold front moves through there is a chance of thunderstorms, however I think the chance of thunderstorms is very low after the cold front moves through.Precip totals may get into 2-3 inches today, so watch out for some flooding.Check out the radar on page to the left and you can see the storms.Check back for updates on watches and warnings.

There is currently a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect for our area until 10pm. Storms are just starting to pop up in Frederick and Pennsylvania.

These thunderstorms are being caused by a cold front coming into our area, converging with the hot conditions we have currently. It is not that humid out right now, decreasing the chances of an extremely powerful storm affecting us. Nevertheless, watch out for lightning and gusty winds if a storm heads your way.

4:50

<>Storms are definitely getting fired up in our are now. There is a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, and extreme southwest Carroll Counties. The storm creating that warning is not the storm we should be worried about. I would concern yourself with the storms just beginning in southern Pennsylvania. I hope the atmosphere doesn’t have enough time to cool, before the actual front gets here. If it were to cool, the storms might dissipate a little. I will continue to update this radar.
<>***UPDATE*** 7:55

<>Well storms aren’t looking good for us. The big one past us, giving us just a little thunder. We got one more shot at a storm which is looking kind of weak. It is currently located in southern Pennsylvania, as seen on the radar. Severe Thunderstorm Watch is still in effect until 10:00 PM.

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(Note: The radar  updates automatically)

Check back for updates on the latest watches and warnings.