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The Storm That Wasn't
Power was restored to nearly all customers last night after a severe storm just missed the area. But people still had plenty to say about the storm that didn't happen.
Hundreds of customers lost power Wednesday evening as Howard County felt the effects of a severe storm that blew past the area. According to BGE, nearly all customers were restored before midnight.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued severe thunderstorm warning early Wednesday evening a thunderstorm that produced hail the size of quarters and winds faster than 60 mph was spotted just before 4:30 p.m. near Beltsville.
The warning was quickly downgraded back to a "watch," meaning the conditions were ripe for a severe thunderstorm, but none was imminent.
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@Bheinbauch33 - "you call that a storm?"
Despite the lack of rain, nearly 640 customers lost power between about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and midnight.
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The outages came less than a month after , some for more than a week as the result of a powerful storm.
@moha_EHL "Finally we got the power back lol"
by the state’s utility regulator, the Public Service Commission, and heads of several Maryland jurisdictions have after the widespread derecho outages.
NWS is predicting a 60 - 70 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms Thursday with temperatures expected to reach about 90 degrees.
@Kimmie888 - "Guess I'll go out and water the flowers since we didn't get any rain!!"
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