MA and NE folks

[Cheesy_Poofs]

How many of you saw your first thunderstorm/thundershower of the season today? I saw my first thundershower with incredibly heavy rain, but no thunderstorms.

[Colin]

I had mine today as well...got about a 10 min period of heavy rain and some occasional rumbles of thunder. Nothing huge but it is my first thunderstorm of the season nonetheless!

[ColdFront77]

The Baltimore/Washington D.C. area got hit pretty hard between 4:00 pm and 4:30 pm Eastern. The storms that went through were very isolated.


BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
424 PM EST SAT MAR 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE.
NORTHEASTERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND.
SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND.
NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND.

* UNTIL 515 PM EST.

* AT 417 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 9 MILES WEST OF CHESTERTOWN...MOVING EAST AT
60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CHURCH HILL AT 430 PM.
SUDLERSVILLE...MILLINGTON AT 435 PM.
HARTLY AT 445 PM.
CAMDEN...WOODSIDE...CHESWOLD...VIOLA AT 450 PM.
DOVER...RISING SUN AT 455 PM.

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

$$

LAT...LON 3929 7620 3911 7623 3901 7539 3923 7535

[Skywatch_NC]

Just some 'boring' showers here with a high of 68 earlier today.

Eric

[WXBUFFJIM]

55 mph gust in eastern Baltimore County. A taxi boat capsized in Baltimore's inner harbor. 21 people recovered, 4 missing, 1 dead right now.

Jim

[hurricanedude]

no such thing as a thundershower........I was taught years ago if a storm has LIGHTENING it is a thunderstorm!!! period....may not always be a big storm but if lightening is detected it is a storm...the word SHOWER would imply the system is not dangerous. So if you hear thunder, there was Lightening somewhere close..

[Skywatch_NC]

no such thing as a thundershower........I was taught years ago if a storm has LIGHTENING it is a thunderstorm!!! period....may not always be a big storm but if lightening is detected it is a storm...the word SHOWER would imply the system is not dangerous. So if you hear thunder, there was Lightening somewhere close..

I, for one, have heard the word thundershower since my childhood years...do you think those NWS mets are on something, Mike? :-? j/k with ya, Bro.

Eric

[Anonymous]

No thunder showers or storms today, just an inch of moderate rain early this morning, then a high of 73 following a low of 58 degrees this morning. Now its so cold!! Its down to 48!! Man I was starting to like the spring weather!! I had such an OBX-like jebwalk tonight in 60 degree weather!!


-Jeb

[ColdFront77]

no such thing as a thundershower........I was taught years ago if a storm has LIGHTENING it is a thunderstorm!!! period....may not always be a big storm but if lightening is detected it is a storm...the word SHOWER would imply the system is not dangerous. So if you hear thunder, there was Lightening somewhere close..

I always have been annoyed at forecasters and/or meteorologists calling lighning and thunder producing events "thundershowers."

Many times these systems do contain heavy rain, so I believe they should be called thunderstorms, too.

The Weather Channel's Jeanetta Jones says "thundershower," rather than "thunderstorm," just about every time she is on the air
during strong to severe thunderstorm events.

A meteorologist at WCVB-TV 5 in Boston, MA also uses it (or at least did when I lived in southeastern Massachusetts) quite often.

[Cheesy_Poofs]

Another round of thunderstorms possible today for the Washington DC/Baltimore area!

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
346 AM EST SUN MAR 7 2004

DCZ001-MDZ004>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ036>042-050>057-072100-
ALBEMARLE VA-ANNE ARUNDEL MD-ARLINGTON/FALLS CHURCH/ALEXANDRIA VA-
CALVERT MD-CARROLL MD-CHARLES MD-CULPEPER VA-DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC-
FAIRFAX VA-FAUQUIER VA-FREDERICK MD-GREENE VA-HARFORD MD-HOWARD MD-
KING GEORGE VA-LOUDOUN VA-MADISON VA-MONTGOMERY MD-NELSON VA-
NORTHERN BALTIMORE MD-ORANGE VA-PRINCE GEORGES MD-
PRINCE WILLIAM/MANASSAS/MANASSAS PARK VA-RAPPAHANNOCK VA-
SOUTHERN BALTIMORE MD-SPOTSYLVANIA VA-ST. MARYS MD-STAFFORD VA-

...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THIS EVENING...

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH AREAS EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE
THIS EVENING. SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE COLD FRONT AND A
FEW THUDNERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL
BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL...BUT
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

THOSE WITH OUTDOOR PLANS THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY
AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER INFORMATION.

$$
MANNING

[stormraiser]

NOthing here yet. We were forecasted for possible T-storms Friday, but didn't transpire. Now it is back to snow

[Stephanie]

Yes, early this afternoon. I was at a local High School Craft fair and the lights flickered and then we heard a BOOM!!! I noticed as I was driving towards the High School how dark the clouds were to the North and West of us. Philadelphia had a peak wind gust of 40 mph.