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Here is one located on the deck skirting on the front of my house- it's a hot spot. All those bees captured since that initial hot spell in April.

On 5/3/2024 at 9:47 AM, nw baltimore wx said:

I know it's been discussed in the past, but what are some good remedies for carpenter bees?

Google Carpenter bee traps. You can buy them or make your own. As the owner of a log cabin in an area with plenty of carpenter bees, these are the only effective solution. Key is to place them in areas where bees tend to drill- if there are previous infestations, puff delta dust (or pump WD40 lol) in the holes-which are up to a foot long and always take a 90 degree turn from the opening. Once the queen/larvae are eradicated, plug the hole and place a trap there. Best done at the end of summer/early Fall. Next Spring when they return, you got em'. It's effing glorious. If you plug the hole and leave anything alive in there, the woodpeckers will come and peck out the whole channel, requiring repair of the wood. I made all these mistakes years ago not knowing the nature of it.

After a brief heavy downpour this morning, been getting on and off mostly light rain. All adds up to 0.34". More than I expected over here based on the 12z and 18z runs yesterday. Looks like its moving out for now. Maybe I can get a little outside work done later this afternoon.

3 hours ago, dailylurker said:

I was awaken by a rumble of thunder. I was surprised when I looked at radar. There's a legit thunderstorm training of my area. RIP dry spell. 

Just had a heavy downpour here. Picked up a quick tenth of an inch. Pretty surprised to see anything this morning as most guidance had any shower activity dissipating as it moved eastward into the HP. It is actually weakening and breaking apart but managed to get underneath a heavier cell. Most rain I have seen in weeks.

Raw out there now. 52 and mostly cloudy.

Rainfall generally looks pretty meager here across guidance through the weekend. I'll probably do a significant watering tomorrow morning in anticipation. Soil is super dry now.

Sipping on this for (early) Friday HH. Very good.

https://lonepinebrewery.com/beers/collaborations/imperial-maple-sunday/

Beautiful day. Been no higher than 60 with a stiff east breeze, partly sunny.

Isn't this the May MR/LR thread? December a hella long way off. What a start lol.

88 here. Overperformer.

Os need a closer who isn't 35 and trying to hang on to something that's gone. Brutal loss to lose 2 out of 3 to the lowly As.

1 minute ago, MN Transplant said:

Warm.  A tad bit humid too.  Of course, we’ll be begging for 60 degree dews in a month or two.

80 and humid in late April is so easy with a simple shift in the flow from NE to S/SW. It was 55 yesterday. It's gonna get really gross(as usual) in the coming months.

23 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Osage orange trees are awesome. Until fall when they drop the warty softballs.

Monkey brains.

Definitely no resemblance to an orange, other than the size. I guess that's it.

Ravens might have the most talented/deepest secondary in the league on paper after this draft. Filled needs at OT, WR, and LB too. Typical DeCosta brilliance.

Some shots from Wye Island today. A bit of a hidden gem apparently. Beautiful place. Features the Osage Orange trees forming a tunnel(way more amazing in person) and a 275+ year old Holly tree, also more impressive in person. The 'new' Wye Oak I suppose.

eta- https://www.visitmaryland.org/listing/attraction/wye-island-natural-resource-management-area

On 4/21/2024 at 1:14 PM, dailylurker said:

I'm over here on Wye Island doing some hiking and it's perfect weather. It's nice and cool with gray sky. It's really pretty over here. 

I went there today. Oddly, same weather, which was awesome. It is a great spot and I haven't been there for years. That Osage trail is so cool with those trees forming a tunnel. Sort of otherworldly.

55 here with some spits and drizzle.

25 degrees warmer tomorrow. Hell of a southerly flow on the other side of that warm front.

So the commanders drafted 'Lamar 2.0', and the Ravens have the original. Should be fun to watch locally, even though they may not compete against each other very often. Good pick by the Commanders imo and probably the best QB overall in the draft.

Looks like a good radiational cooling night tonight. Probably some scattered frost with temps in the mid 30s outside of the UHI.

3 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

The soil moisture data at the Waldorf mesonet site perfectly illustrates this point.

The Ridgely site, which is closest to me, is drier. 10 cm = 0.071 wfv. It was 0.257 on April 5.

3" here for April, but almost all of that fell the first 4 days of the month. Soil here is well drained, mostly silt and sand. This time of year it can get dry pretty quickly. Even though it was super wet with high water table a month ago, that rapidly changes with longer/warmer days and increase in transpiration underway, and enhanced by a dry spell. All that said, it would probably take another couple weeks of little to no rain to reach 'abnormally dry' category.

18 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Temps look outstanding by Sunday. Hopefully we can snag some storms during the warmup.

Any significant rain chances are probably a week away(which would be May 1st), when HP along the east coast breaks down and a front associated with LP tracking across the GLs gets closer.

I ran the sprinkler yesterday evening. Maybe a tenth of an inch over the last 20 days.

35. Mt Holly expanded the Frost advisory last evening. Saw some spotty frost driving in but the air is pretty dry.

17 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Am I missing something with the frost/freeze advisories tonight? Hrrr and NAM have lows in the 40s even for far N/W burbs?

It's unlikely to marginal for a freeze anywhere east of the mountains. Frost in some spots, maybe. I noticed Mt Holly has frost advisories in effect tonight where temps are forecast to fall to 36, with 'patchy frost' wording in those areas. No advisories last night, and here it was 36 with patchy frost lol. Tonight no advisory again here, with a forecast low of 37. Not sure what the actual criteria is.