I’m not sure how many storms this Summer has seen, but it’s been a lot.  It feels like 500 thousand sometimes.  Now we did need the rain, and we got it.  I think everyone in the area saw at least some showers.  We also had some storm damage though.  By the way SPC in the previous blog means Storm Prediction Center.  I’ve mentioned it so much I thought everyone was familiar with it.  They had us under a slight risk for severe weather today.  Anyway, look at this:

This was from a viewer in downtown Portsmouth.  Lots of heavy rain fell across the area.  We had several photos/reports of street flooding.  Some residents saw a half inch up to an inch.  We also had some wind damage.  We had reports of a few trees down around Great Bridge in Chesapeake.  We had a few reports from parts of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Newport News.  Here’s a damage photo from Herb in Virginia Beach:

Here is a different photo of a grill that was tossed into a pool.  It was sent in by Sue in Virginia Beach:

Not sure how strong the wind was there, but it may have caught the grill just right.  Or just wrong I guess.  No grilling tonight. 

We had a tornado warning in Chesapeake earlier this evening, but I have had no reports of damage from that storm. 

  Finally, this is out of the viewing area, but interesting nonetheless.  In Ocean City Maryland hail fell for about 5 minutes and covered the road.  Some of the hail was one inch in diamter.   There was some damage reported to vehicles.  Crazy day!  But as the title suggests.  We’ve had a loooot of storms this year.  Just not widespread rain every time.  Our station picked up 1.01″ this afternoon by the way.

Meteorologist: Jeremy Wheeler