D.C. Storm Takes Out White House Tree - Again
This article says that one of yesterday's thunderstorms rumbling through D.C. took out a 70-year old tree on the White House grounds. Here's a radar image as the storms came through yesterday... the line of storms actually looked weaker coming through D.C. than surrounding areas.
The article also says that "On June 25, 2006, a wicked thunderstorm knocked down a White House elm tree that was more than 100 years old and is visible in the image on the back of the $20 bill."I blogged about that tree in 2006; the storm also included copious amounts of rain that flooding the IRS and the National Archives. The heavy rain may have led to the 2006 tree, if it was uprooted rather than snapped off.
Here's a map of Storm Spotter reports - there were no other reports in the D.C. boundaries though there was another report of a large tree felled to the northeast in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
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