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Minnesotans Arguing About the Weather III: Storm's a comin'

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Yeah it looks like we’re gonna get hit with this one. It has slowed up a bit since it was further west, which might be good. (Three to four foot trees were snapping in Stearns County)
 
Yeah it looks like we’re gonna get hit with this one. It has slowed up a bit since it was further west, which might be good. (Three to four foot trees were snapping in Stearns County)

Everyone in the NW Burbs right now...

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The wind has died down, and the sheets of rain are back to normal showers. What was mostly in-cloud lightning has shifted to repeated close ground strikes, though. This is noisy!
 
I woke up to the thunder last night. Just before 5:00am, I woke up to a thunder clap, so I was up for the day. With that, I decided to check on my daughter using the baby cam, and found her sleeping with her lower half off the side of the bed while her torso on up just snoozing atop the mattress. I think it might’ve scared her at some point. About 15 minutes later I checked again and she was fully in her bed again. It was pretty funny to see.
 
I woke up to the thunder last night. Just before 5:00am, I woke up to a thunder clap, so I was up for the day. With that, I decided to check on my daughter using the baby cam, and found her sleeping with her lower half off the side of the bed while her torso on up just snoozing atop the mattress. I think it might’ve scared her at some point. About 15 minutes later I checked again and she was fully in her bed again. It was pretty funny to see.

My daughter could fall asleep in any position. She would sleep on stairs looking like a slinky. She was stable enough that our cats would sleep under her with no feeling of risk.
 
My entire drive home the temp on my car dashboard read triple digits...3 hours later if it's still above 90.
 
Ran into a storm on I-90 last night northwest of Chi which was as wet and windy as any I have driven through in a long time. Just about all the semis had pulled over; SRO under the overpasses. Only a scattered number of idiots like me wading through wind and rain at about 30 mph. It was late, and I was tired, but it's a little like big storms coming in at our lake property. Our dock faces northwest, and there's something about being out on it when they come crashing in.

Finally got the car washed too.
 
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OPM just told everybody in the DC area to go home.

They didn't give them permission. They told them, get out.
 
What will the Metro be like?

Good question. At least nobody is coming into the city for commercial purposes. The national monuments and museums are closed. So the Metros will be only workers, like in the winter; that helps.
 
Actually, there was a couple counties just north of the Maryland-PA border that had a pretty spicy radar return. Curious to see the damage there. Lots of violent rotation.

Edit: And another spicy one exactly between baltimore and DC>

Edit 2: An almost certain tornado near Fredricksburg. That's a nasty looking velocity signature.
 
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This is a no fucking around storm. Radar indicated hail of up to 5.3" (among what I saw) and a radar return of 74 dBZ. Crazy.
 
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