Severe storms crossing D.C. metro area

Any signs of a potential for rotation?

Great! On the day I find and purchase the first Sam Adams Octoberfest of the season, the power will go out, the beer will spoil and the chaos of a disintegrating society will take place. Summer lovers, I hope you revel in your favorite time of the year :)

On a side note, I was at Yankee stadium when A-Ro(i)d hit his 600th homer. Great thing to witness!

@jed

Rotation threat is pretty small but not zero.

Thanks!

@authorofpoetry - better get drinkin'! Beer can't spoil if its in your belly...

are we still on the 2-6pm plan, or has that slid to later?

Kim in Manassas

Cusefan - You are my idol!

authorofpoetry - I'm more of a Sam Adams Summer Ale girl myself, but Octoberfest coming out gives me hope that the heat will soon be gone!

CWG - I know you guys addressed flights in one of your earlier posts today, but in light of the new watch I was curious as to your thoughts.

Flying out of DCA around 8 tonight. You think we'll get off the ground on time? (I'm already assuming it's going to be a wild ride and I'll be white knuckling the arm rests.)

@AlexandriaAnnaTH

Things should be quieting down weather-wise by around that time, so it may be more a matter of whether there's any residual effects from earlier potential delays.

CuseFan - I was thinking the same thing. My wife thinks I am crazy for always talking about Octoberfest, but for me, it represents the transition to Fall, my favorite time of year. I admire Summer Ale fans though :) As long as you like Sam Adams, you can't go wrong in my book!

darkened skies and often thunder in herndon......

authorofpoetry- I mean... I'm from Boston. We're practically bred to like Sam Adams!

Bring on the storms!!

Cusefan - Nice! Two things I have to do, Fenway park and the Brewery tour...

A 'cuse fan and a Sam drinker? A girl after mine own heart.
In other news, looks like we've got

Scratch that. Looks like somethings trying to fire north of Mclean now.

Incoming! Batten down the hatches!

Pouring in downtown Bethesda! Glad I didn't attempt the Starbucks run without an umbrella.
Did someone say Octoberfest? I am headed to the beer store on the way home :-)

Kathy - Yeah, found them at the Rodman's store near White Flint!!!

The gust front appears to be blasting thru Manassas, and spouse reports that in Centreville it started raining minutes ago and "even if it stopped right now you won't have to water tomorrow".
Guess that means a lot of rain.

Nice wind core heading toward Fairfax.

Once this line goes through will that be it or do we need to worry about the storms out in WV? I'm supposed to be driving up to Hagerstown after work and I'm trying to figure out if I'll get blasted either going or coming home later this evening.

Black as night in Falls Church, major thunder...all heading my way from the West. Yikes, I wanna duck until it's over.

@Ian: I'm in it!

Can't see out windows. It's like someone spraying them with a firehose. Non-stop thunder, lightning, wind. It's a doozy!

Temp dropped from 91 to 71 in 10 minutes here in Fairfax.

Storms a brewin' here in Adams Morgan! A couple raindrops fell and everyone outdoors scattered. Dark as night out there and distant rumbles of thunder. Needless to say, I am giddy!

And yes, a Cuse Fan from MA...living in MD now! Both Fenway & the brewery tour are awesome :)

It looks like the bulk of the storms are staying on the south side of the state border. This bodes well for us Rockville folk huh?

Incredibly dark here in Dupont Circle, and thunder is rumbling. No rain so far but I'm sure it'll come within ten minutes.

First rumble of thunder heard in Rosslyn. Was going to walk up to CVS but I think I'll wait awhile. Looking to the north it's very dark. Still some light blue in the sky to the south.

In Chantilly - Power flickered 3x at my office, AND turned off for about 20 seconds another time. This was a fun storm.

Major lightning and downpour in Ballston

Here comes the wind and rain.

as tbva said, it's indeed quite a storm here in falls church. my storm-hatin' dog is in a panic! my cool cat couldn't care less...now that she's inside...

this looks like just the front edge hitting us. should be "exciting" for a while...

CWG - hoping to catch some tennis at Legg Mason tonight. What's your forecast for this afternoon and evening? Is this the only line of t-storms? Weather.com (for what it's worth) is saying storms should end by 5.

Sky is kind of greenish brown here in Adams Morgan. Wind is picking up..

It's NIGHT outside right now in Crystal City...

It's POURING here near the Capitol and the wind is very gusty, the rain is moving sideways.

It's pouring here near the Capitol and the wind is very gusty. The rain is moving sideways.

Winds around Alexandria look very strong, radar looking somewhat similar to July 25 now in the core wind area.

Power is out at home in Del Ray. Flickering on-and-off at the office in Tysons.

I'd estimate we had some gusts around 45mph at Nationals Stadium.

Sounds like a good number of wind damage reports coming in from Fairfax/Arlington etc.

About 10 minutes ago in Huntington I watched a gust of wind pull a tree apart like a wishbone. Wow.

First wave seems not to have caused much damage in downtown Silver Spring and Rock Creek Forest. Power still on @ 3:55 pm.

Winds in Seminary Hill section of Alexandria were worse than July 25, based on the amount of tree damage, and the extent of tree lean. Power flickered, and went out for about 20 seconds, but surprisingly, is back on now.

It looked like Isabel out there. I would not be surprised if winds hit 70+.

Nice gust front in Suitland, 35 mph winds and about a 15 degree drop in seconds. I'm back in the Ops room now and still hearing some pretty sick thunder.

Hendo1, most of D.C. missed out on the worst winds, it traveled just south this time. The core SE of D.C. looks really wicked right now, serious winds probably heading towards Andrews etc.

And there goes the power. Luckily we have backup generators in our ops room. My car's stuck in the parking garage now until we get it back though.

I saw some lightning bolts hit the ground a few minutes ago. It was freaking scary!

well...there was sound and fury for a while here, but ultimately...nothing: no 1.5" hail, no wind damage i can see, and fortunately, no power outage for me anyway. looks to be on the way out.

so is that it for today? i do see another batch on doppler radar out in west virginia possibly headed our way.

weatherchannel.com fail. It's 4:05 and the latest radar they have is 3:10?

hurricane force winds in Old Town Alexandria about 20 mins ago - hadn't seen anything like it except for hurrican footage on weather channel...no power either

VERY STRONG WINDS pushing into pts. just SE of DC. Andrews AFB in center of it now. More storms backbuilding in Fairfax County, not as likely to go severe but will need to be watched.

Moderate lightning, a couple good claps of thunder and a bit of rain. Not much else here in AdMo - when is part two?

Silver Spring still has power? Can anyone confirm that?

Big trees down in Alexandria.

Is more for Bethesda incoming?

Also, I hear that River Road near the Kenwood Shopping Center is closed or blocked...

The earth must b off its axis, 3 good rains in 36 hrs here in Spotsy. My yard may actually look a little less brown.
Hokies 1st day on football practice 2morrow.

The worst of the storm seemed to have missed Van Ness here in NW DC. Lots of rain and wind, but that was the extent of it. What gives?

Still have power in Huntington. Ride home was wild. Gust front hit while at the signal on St. Barnabas at the Beltway about 3:45. Rain hit before I even made the Inner Loop split. Then between driving rain, cloud-to-ground lightining hitting lightpoles all over the place, what I'd estimate as 50-55mph winds, and stupid drivers stopping under the overpasses WHILE STILL IN THE TRAVEL LANE, it took a good 10 minutes just to get down to the Wilson Bridge. Things improved after that.

looks like it's trying to get interesting here again. light rain, a bit of wind, and rolling thunder off in the distance.

i've got to say, something is off with the timing on the "d.c. area radar and lightning loop" radar. the time stamp on it says one minute ago, and it's showing a clear spot over me, but looking out the window, well, i'm seeing something....

over three inches of rain so far here in northern Pr William county...

Brian-
The view across the intersection of Silver Hill Road and Suitland Road was quite impressive. I couldn't even see the "tactical" Subway at the peak, and there were a number of lighting strikes within a quarter mile.

I thought this would be winding down out here in the PWC/western Fairfax area by now, but it looks as if there's more coming in so I'll be driving in it.
We've had heavy rains in Manassas, so I'll avoid Groveton Road; it often floods.

Western Fairfax being hit with round two. Heavy rain and thunder and lightning and it looks like a horizontal line of storms has formed stretching from western Fairfax County all the way to the West Virginia border. Let's hope these things don't train for hours from west to east. So much for the atmosphere stabilizing.

so Clay Anderson, former nbc4 meteorologist, now works for pepco as their senior media representative.

When I picked up southbridgedad from the Horner Rd commuter lot, it was sunny and the car thermometer read 84. Passed the NoVA Comm College Woodbridge campus, and it looked like it hadn't rained a drop. Got home about 5:30. 1/2 hour later, rain and wind at home. We're not at 84 now.

@VaTechBob-- doing a happy dance for you! :o)

Mason08- "Tactical Subway" HA! I love it! Are you in the Census building?

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