Jason Foster
5/27/2010 REPORTS: MD/PA
Mark Ellinwood and myself took a drive north & east toward northeast Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania for some action there. It was a tough forecast (for me) mostly because of lack of time to watch models and do the required views of the conditions. However, it was apparent that north & east was the only option from homebase. In the end, it was only the time restriction (both Mark and I had to be back home by 9pm) that made us miss better storms. We did see storms including my favorite….initiation. I even recorded a short time lapse of the initiation. Here is a picture from that timeframe:
We hit our cut-off time and missed the better storm just to our northeast…which we did see at a distance, but didn’t have time to chase. Mark and I returned to Gaithersburg, MD by 8:30pm a tad earlier than necessary (which was a good thing).
Later, after I took care of my business obligations, I saw the second round (1st round here in the homebase county) and headed out shortly after midnight. I was working on the pictures from earlier when I noticed the radar just explode. I headed out hoping to stay ahead of the line, but I ended up with some technical difficulties and the radar loop got way delayed. It was no big deal, I pretty much knew what was going on. I drove to eastern Rockville/Sandy Spring area, but then reversed course to intercept a different line. I did so around the Laytonsville area where I took the following images:
MORE PHOTOS ON MY BLOG: http://www.weatherwarrior.net/blog/?p=1390
Add:
A shot I didn't post on my blog:
That's Mark watching new convection appear to our north and east.
Note to Mod.: I can't remember, but I thought I remember revision to the rules about report threads. Generally there is to be one and only one thread per day, but I thought I read somewhere they can be separate if two different systems separated by a large distance or something to that affect can allow for more than one thread. If I'm wrong, my apologies and just merge it with the MT thread.
Mark Ellinwood and myself took a drive north & east toward northeast Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania for some action there. It was a tough forecast (for me) mostly because of lack of time to watch models and do the required views of the conditions. However, it was apparent that north & east was the only option from homebase. In the end, it was only the time restriction (both Mark and I had to be back home by 9pm) that made us miss better storms. We did see storms including my favorite….initiation. I even recorded a short time lapse of the initiation. Here is a picture from that timeframe:
We hit our cut-off time and missed the better storm just to our northeast…which we did see at a distance, but didn’t have time to chase. Mark and I returned to Gaithersburg, MD by 8:30pm a tad earlier than necessary (which was a good thing).
Later, after I took care of my business obligations, I saw the second round (1st round here in the homebase county) and headed out shortly after midnight. I was working on the pictures from earlier when I noticed the radar just explode. I headed out hoping to stay ahead of the line, but I ended up with some technical difficulties and the radar loop got way delayed. It was no big deal, I pretty much knew what was going on. I drove to eastern Rockville/Sandy Spring area, but then reversed course to intercept a different line. I did so around the Laytonsville area where I took the following images:
MORE PHOTOS ON MY BLOG: http://www.weatherwarrior.net/blog/?p=1390
Add:
A shot I didn't post on my blog:
That's Mark watching new convection appear to our north and east.
Note to Mod.: I can't remember, but I thought I remember revision to the rules about report threads. Generally there is to be one and only one thread per day, but I thought I read somewhere they can be separate if two different systems separated by a large distance or something to that affect can allow for more than one thread. If I'm wrong, my apologies and just merge it with the MT thread.
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