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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Jun 12, 2014
Description: You hear about pop-up thunderstorms, and sometimes you see them when you're flying.

When I was flying yesterday the sky was hazy, but clear and pale blue. About half an hour after I landed this storm popped up right where I'd been flying.

I watched it in Garmin Pilot on my iPhone from the safety of a Wendy's and made these screen grabs just for fun.

Once it started raining it just kept on--all night and most of today--a full 24 hours.
Date Taken: Jun 12, 2014
Place Taken: Near Screamersville, VA
Owner: Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jun 12,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    The whitish area is cloud--a visible satellite image. (The times are in the lower right corner.)<P><img src="inline/20004-IMG_9733.jpg" alt="IMG_9733"><P><BR>15 minutes later it had begun to rain.<P><img src="inline/20005-IMG_9734.jpg" alt="IMG_9734"><P><BR>After 30 minutes there was lightning.<P><img src="inline/20006-IMG_9735.jpg" alt="IMG_9735"><P><BR>After 45 minutes.<P><img src="inline/20007-IMG_9736.jpg" alt="IMG_9736"><P><BR>After 1 hour there was hail. Not big hail, except for a couple chunks that were about an inch across, but hail.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->      Attachments:  

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Jerry Ratcliffe - Jun 12,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Holy crap. This is why I worry about my aircraft left out on her own all week.     
  
Buck Bray - Jun 13,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Don, that was quite a severe stationary storm. I also watched it develop and fortunately for me stayed mostly over richmond with lighter rain spreading to the northeast towards Stan and me splashing in the St Mary's river in his 1946 T-craft on floats.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->     
  
Don Maxwell - Jun 14,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Buck, one just like it squatted right over Lindsay's place on the Rappahannock the day before, also without moving much. Didn't last quite as long, though.<br /><br />Fortunately, the front that blew through last night has brought us much better weather, and Sunday should be even better for flying.     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Jun 15,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Amazing, Don! First time I've seen this type of stationary storm photo-documented.<br /><br />On Jun 12th I did two demo flights. Light westerly winds, hazy (3 to 5 miles vis) and very high humidity. Some thin broken stratus at 1000' with some lower patches. Between flights we unexpectedly got hit with a HEAVY downpour that no-one saw coming. Pulled up Intellicast weather on the CYEE computer and there was a cell just leaving the airport vicinity! Intellicast showed diffuse cloud with only a few small more distinct patches to the southwest over southern Georgian Bay so we headed out on the second demo after asking airport manager, John Smith, to give us a shout if he saw another one coming. On climb out he called and we noted some virga but no significant cloud height. We said we'd be back in 40 minutes. Sure enough, on return we raced another 'incoming' that became torrential as we pulled PTQ into the hangar. (About four hours later we got the expected cold frontal passage with much cooler temps and moderate winds.)<br /><br />We have all made flights where, except for the darker rain and virga, the haze made it impossible to see heavy cumulus. But the interesting thing for me was that this heavy cu was forming very quickly just west of the airport with zero advanced radar warning..     


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