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Pretty cool shot of the clouds I took from Target in Easton from that warned storm an hour or so ago to the south.

I'll have the sprinkler on before the weekend is out.

Looking ahead, ens means still have the upper ridge building more westward towards and beyond mid month, with average to perhaps slightly below average temps for the MA.

No rain here yesterday afternoon through the overnight. Maybe some scattered stuff around today. Then we ridge.

I wish it were only my hands and feet lol.

Doesn't look like anything too interesting heading this way. Maybe I can pick up a little more rain if the weak-ish part of the line holds together. Happy to get that half inch early this AM.

How long did you take it? This is 12 days- 40mg for 3 days, then 30 for 3, 20 for3, then 10 for 3. I am allergic to poison ivy/oak too. Had a pretty bad case of it years ago, but just stuck it out using topical stuff and letting it weep. I nuke that shit with brush killer if I see it growing anywhere near the house now.

Anyone ever get a severe rash from taking an antibiotic? I told the doc I didn't have any allergic reactions that I knew of, but then I have not taken a antibiotic since I was a kid. Now I have been prescribed prednisone, which I have never taken. Can't wait to see what awful side effects I get from that. Might just wait this out another day now that the amoxicillin is out of my system.

It's also fun to flood their tunnels with a garden hose and try to float them out lol. Rarely works but it is impressive to see where that water ends up going and all the places it comes up.

War of attrition. Mole traps work but you have to locate the active runs, and set the traps properly. It takes some persistence. Grub killer, fake worms etc don't work. Moles are primarily after earthworms, and they might be blind, but they can smell- in stereo. Sonic mole chasers are another ineffective gimmick. A good cat works. Dogs too, but they will likely wreck the yard to trying to extract them.

Had some heavy rain showers move through early morning. 0.52" The heavier stuff was just to the east.

Mean upper ridge shifts west on the ens means by mid month. Probably would bring us just typical heat and not as humid.

They almost always do a good job with the discussions.

Was 58 for a low. Last comfortably cool morning we will have for awhile.

Inland and above 2k ft. should still be decent.

Marginal risk for excessive rain tomorrow then we bake.

Mount Holly seems more concerned about hydro issues than severe, given the impressive moisture plume and 2 rounds of convection possibly occurring over the same area. They mention the possibility of a few damaging wind gusts via wet microburst. WPC has the area in a marginal risk for excessive rain Thursday.

This is what almost everyone here has been jonesing for. I know y'all wont get tired of it over the next 3 months or so.

12z GFS has low to mid 90s for DC all next week then tops it off with 100 the following Monday lol.

Just the orientation of the ridge. It wont last long up there- probs a day or 2. We are gonna bake down here next week for multiple days.

A tad nippy, but that would still be late morning out there. Hard to turn down highs in the 50s/60s for me though lol.

And it will feel like summer in earnest by this weekend, and especially next week.

Thanks. Pond has held up well over the years. Just replaced the pump a couple weeks ago. Home to quite a few frogs during the warm months. Sometimes I get a big ass bullfrog in there.

Mount Holly AFD on the heavy rain potential this week- The pattern will quickly become more active heading into Wednesday night and Thursday. Expect a long southwesterly fetch generated by a broad dome of high pressure over the Western Atlantic and a deepening upper level trough that moves over the eastern CONUS. This will push a PWAT surge in over the region and between these features, we`ll have a slow moving/stagnant frontal system that be the trigger for fairly widespread shower activity heading into Thursday evening. We`ve opted to including mention of heavy rain at this time after collaborating with neighboring offices and with WPC. WPC`s Excessive Rainfall Outlook is carrying a D3 Marginal Risk and this is well supported over the PHI forecast area. From a synoptic point of view we`re looking at the potential for a Maddox Synoptic pattern to develop over the Mid Atlantic. Guidance at the surface has been a bit inconsistent, however aloft, the guidance looks to be in decent agreement. We`ll have a slow moving trough aloft with a deep moisture plume ahead. In the mid levels, BUFKit shows deep southwesterly moist flow from basically the surface up to 300mb with a slight veering profile. At the surface we`ll have a slow moving/stalled frontal system over the region. So when you add up those features, along with deep warm cloud depths, small MBE vectors, PWAT`s approaching 1.7-1.9" which would be in close to the 90th percentile should that verify, and storms that develop on the boundary rather than move off, the potential exists to see some localized flooding Thursday night. We`ll certainly need to keep an eye out for trends to see how things shake out over the next couple of guidance cycles but for at least the last 4 guidance cycles the potential has been there.