Yesterday’s treacherous weather conditions up and down the mid-Atlantic and northeast brought a mixed bag of nasty and dangerous conditions.,,ranging from thundershowers, to heavy thunderstorms, to tornadoes and flooding. This morning we can all awake to a hopeful sense of relief and a sincere feeling of empathy for those of us who were on the wrong end of the devastation.

All in all the Salisbury area was spared from nature’s wrath, however, other areas near and dear to us were not. The view above shows the aftermath of the Annapolis tornado on West Street, just a short drive from the Annapolis Mall.

Tornadoes and waterspouts were spotted in Somerset, Dorchester, and Caroline Counties on the Eastern Shore. The National Weather Service will be surveying the local damage today.

The rare outbreaks of bad weather, a result of Ida, even brought tornadoes and flooding to Philadelphia, areas of New Jersey, and Brooklyn, just to name a few. Harrisburg, PA suffered through a horrific day while Central Park picked up 3.15 inches of rain in just one hour last night.

The sbywx.blog weather station in Salisbury received exactly 1.11 inches of rain from the storms…far below the multiple inches of rain picked up in a short time elsewhere to our north.

One can only imagine what folks in Louisiana endured when Hurricane Ida came ashore with winds over 150 mph. Let’s hope that our 24 hour lesson in empathy is something we’ll take with us in the days ahead. Maybe we can apply those lessons to other facets of our lives as well.

A mostly sunny day, free of bad weather, will greet us on the second day of September. We can expect high temperatures to just reach the upper 70’s on Delmarva today, the first of a five day stretch of beautiful weather.

Mostly sunny, cooler and noticeably less humid today. Remaining breezy near the water. A preview of early fall! pic.twitter.com/IChGIVUtqU

— NWS Wakefield (@NWSWakefieldVA) September 2, 2021