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Sterling sticks by forecast

The National Weather Service continues to warn of possible flooding with heavy thunderstorms today and well into next week as a stalled cold front leaves us in the path of humid tropical air moving into the region from the southwest. Here's the forecast.

On the other hand, the WeatherDeck is dry this morning. And the weather instruments here show no significant rainfall since a very loud thunderstorm very early Friday morning. And it's as still as death out there, with the humidity at 91 percent.

The radar record shows that most of the rain has actually been falling well to our south, over SE Virginia and the Lower Eastern Shore. Salisbury Airport recorded nearly 2.5 inches of rain in just an hour - between 1 and 2 p.m. yesterday.

And the chatter this morning suggests that most of the rain today could along the Blue Ridge. Here's the one-hour radar loop. It will show where the rain is falling now. We can watch to see if Sterling lays an egg today.

Comments

Heavy rain here at my official Skywarn station. Since Thursday, 2.20" has fallen here in Owings Mills, MD. Looks like more moderate to heavy rainfall given the "juiced" atmosphere over this area.
Marty
Owings Mills, MD

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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