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Wet until Wednesday

Those were some impressive showers yesterday. We totaled 1.8 inches here on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville, with more rain due today as this low to our south keeps pumping wet air in off the Atlantic.

Down at BWI-Marshall they clocked just 0.65 inch by midnight last night, but other areas saw far more. Here is an accumulation map from the CoCoRaHS observers, with some observations topping 2 inches.

One report out of Sabillasville, in Frederick County exceeded 4 inches.

Here's a NWS accounting of some of the storm and damage reports yesterday, including several tornado sightings in Southern Maryland.

The forecast is another wet one, with more heavy showers likely today, wet again tomorrow, with the sun finally reappearing on Wednesday. The continued southerly flow off the ocean will bring a risk of minor coastal flooding at high tides today. Here's the list of advisories.

And I will be out in it today. My car quit on me. "Busted flat in Cockeysville, waitin' for a tow. Feelin' near as faded as my jeans ..."

Posted by Frank Roylance on April 21, 2008 7:58 AM |
                    

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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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