CAPE

6.52" for the month. With some shower chances late Saturday and rain in the forecast for Sunday night, pretty good chance of exceeding 7".

Rooting for little to no additional rain here. It looks like the heavier stuff will stay to the east at this point.

Another soaking rain. 0.88" since late afternoon yesterday. Looks like an additional 1/2 "+ today over here.

Baltimore looks to be on the western fringe and precip should be moving out mid to late afternoon, so hopefully Os opening day won't be impacted much if at all.

19 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

A port worker reporting that the Dali was having serious intermittent power outages for a couple days leading up to the departure. 

The article covers the worker’s statements, and the video has her statements beginning around 3:57.

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-26/major-bridge-in-baltimore-collapses-following-collision-with-cargo-ship

 

@CAPE

This accident must be consuming for you.

Yes there is always a lot of interest and discussion around here when some sort of accident involving a merchant ship occurs.

This is  a good channel for anything involving the shipping industry. Here he syncs the video footage with the marine traffic tracking software and explains what is likely occurring at key points . Great watch.

High of 48 after a low of 29. Awesome day.

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

Violets are native at least! Host plants for some butterflies as well. 

Yeah and it isn't ugly. It has become more prolific over the last couple years in certain places though. I can't maintain more than a small area of decent grass, so it is mostly a combo of moss, clover, dandelions, and now violet everywhere else. Doesn't look nice when it takes over the mulch areas though.

I decided to wage a bit of a battle with wild violet. Futile I know. I just want to keep it from completely taking over the mulched plant beds. Ripping the roots out but they are dense and the rhizomes are extensive. Never ending lol. I'll give it a go to see if it makes any difference. In the end I will probably have to learn to love it, just like my dandelion farm. 

2 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Low of 25. Colder than I thought it’d be.

Coastal storm with heavy rain followed by wind and cold. MA lowland classic.

Low of 29 here. Great day to get some outside work done with a high near 50 and plenty of strong late March sun.

2.33" total

Wind picking up now with brightening skies.

Looks like the rain should be over in the next hour. Nice.

2.1".  Need the wind to help dry up the water laying all over the place.

7 minutes ago, SnowtoRain said:

1.73"

Up to 1.4" here. Pouring again after it lightened up some the last couple hours.

Pouring. 0.73" so far.

22 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Another swamping rain for 95 and east,  and another drizzle-fest out here while the Valley burns.

I'll trade ya for the next couple months.

11 minutes ago, stormy said:

According to the 18z NAM 3 and 12, the heaviest swath of rain will run up east of the Blue Ridge toward 95.

Much wetter than 12z overall. I think your assessment is off a bit though. Heaviest rain right along and esp east of I-95 near the bay.

The dry weather was nice while it lasted. Now back to the usual heavy, maybe excessive rain. The wind wont be trivial ether. Good old fashioned Nor'easter rainer for the MA.

Forecast here is for a half inch tonight and 2-3 tomorrow.

9 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

I’m thinking this year will be another code red summer smokeout. July will be the hottest ever, followed by a record-breaking hurricane season that features a major up the bay around September. Winter will be preemptively canceled in October, which then guarantees a 95/96 redux. 
 

I wonder how well this post will age. 

It won't take that long lol. Many will see this look consistently advertised on the seasonal guidance over the next few months and bail.

Low of 25. 

5 hours ago, Chris78 said:

He should try Truth social. 

'X' is pretty much the same now.

4 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Gfs has been really bad this year imo.

Had mby snowing in about 96 hours where no other model is even close 

It isn't going to snow anywhere near Staunton. He can drive NW towards Canaan if he wants to see snow. NW and 3000+ ft is where accumulating snow will be. This isn't difficult lol.

1 hour ago, stormy said:

The 12z GFS and GEM runs are becoming a little more bullish on the WOTBR snow threat for Friday night, both op and ens.

GFS op -  3- 5" both 10:1 and Kuchera  qp 1.38" previous .65".........  GEFS  1 - 2 " previous .3" ......qp .55" previous .30"

GEM op - 0 ................ CMC ens  .8"  previous .4",  qp 1.05" previous .60"

ECM 0   ECM ens 0

A long shot but the trend is my friend.

Good luck.

On 3/16/2024 at 11:03 PM, Maestrobjwa said:

When people say "Google is your friend" I find it to be a bit condescending, like somebody saying you were too dumb to look into something. But maybe I'm making too much of it (probably, lol)

In this hobby/obsession, I find that sometimes I'm not even sure exactly what TO Google to find something. If it were a general guide that said "For this, try these sites. For that, try those sites", it may help. Finding a temperature for a particular day, or what the snow totals were for a particular year is easy enough...but beyond that it's less clear where to go for stuff. 

For example, where do I find charts that are easy to see the trend of temperatures for a particular month? A specific thing that I wouldn't know where to start.

Maybe start here-

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/national/202213

High of 65 here. Nice day.

3 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Baffling.

It is, but we are talking about the Bears. Maybe there really wasn't a market, but then why not just hold on to him. Injuries happen. 

How does Cousins keep positioning himself for the big payday? He is 36 I think and coming off a major injury. It looked like Fields might end up there, but Atlanta chose to overpay an aging middle of the pack QB.

1 minute ago, toolsheds said:

It makes no sense why the Bears gave him away for nothing.  Fields was worth a lot more than that. 

Wasn't he a first round pick? And he has played pretty well on a mediocre at best team. Odd there weren't more takers.

That 6th round pick is conditional- it can become a 4th depending on playing time etc. Looks like the initial plan is for Fields to backup Wilson though.