Weather man as poet
Either these storms didn't make it out of the city and into the suburbs yesterday, or I didn't look up from my desk enough to notice. I think it got dark, but I don't remember the storm. From the Post:
Steve Zubrick, a science and operations officer for the National Weather Service office in Sterling said the storms were touched off by high humidity that had rolled in overnight with a breeze off the Chesapeake Bay. Dew point temperatures, which measure moisture in the atmosphere, had increased from the 50s to the upper 60s between Monday and yesterday.
"That's a tremendous difference in terms of humidity," Zubrick said. "As the humidity rose overnight, it essentially is the fuel that helps fire thunderstorms."
The storms formed in place rather than rolling in on a single front, Zubrick said, leading to a patchwork of coverage. Just as quickly as they came, the storms would disappear: "The rainfall is the storm's demise," he said.
Haven't killed blockquotes yet.
