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Lower Dorchester County has been getting hammered pretty good with training cells.

That's going to be a challenge. My soil is silt and sand and drains very well. I have tried several tall fescue blends over the years and every one has struggled to thrive/survive once we get near the solstice, and the weeks beyond. I have many large trees surrounding my 'grass patch' so that greatly exacerbates the problem. My advice is to do what I did and minimize the grass area as much as possible- increase mulch areas, add raised beds, build a fire-pit with a large surround and add more plants. I still want to go total hardscape, but stone and rock isn't cheap.

Ha yeah. Its always a losing battle here. The objective is to not have to completely start over. I will shoot for saving half the grass in the back "yard".

Less than a tenth with the morning showers. Back in the usual mid summer rain rut, with the trees in full transpiration mode, starving the grass. Running the sprinkler is pretty futile this time of year as it is impossible to get a good soaking of the soil when its this dry. Over seeding/reseeding will commence in about a month.

Getting some light to moderate showers as the heavy stuff passes to the SW. Heard a few rumbles of thunder.

Meanwhile there is a well defined outflow boundary combining with a bay breeze showing up nicely on local radar moving westward from Delaware, and it cant even pop some drizzle.

GEFS has 0 to +2C temp anomalies over the next 10 days, and beyond. Basically normal for around here. Looks like plenty of 86-92 type stuff. Also looks generally dry. No surprise there. We always seem to go dry when the sun is strongest. My grass is already burning to hell in places.

Not seeing a significant signal on the means for a big SE ridge to develop and park. As long as the upper ridging generally stays to our west, we might be able to escape 100 degree heat. I am sure there will be a brief excursion or 2 regardless, at least for the UHI areas like DC.

It might help to inhibit lift, minimizing the cold rain.

In the woods, its kinda difficult to ideally place the weather station. I placed it in the ideal spot for accurate rain readings, so it isn't under the trees. Still a decent spot for temp readings, although it does get into direct sun for a time.

My house is directly in the woods. My station is a few feet off the ground behind the house. I like having a secondary sensor that is always in the shade- makes it easy to detect any errors due to sun soaking on the station sensor. Shielding/fan aspiration is the way to go to avoid high temp readings due to direct sun though.

Easton is almost always warmer than here. Greensboro and Goldsboro are literally a few farm fields apart lol. My station sensor has a shield, plus its only briefly in direct sun in mid/late morning. I have a secondary temp sensor on the north side of the house I use for reference.

Yes it was less humid today for sure. Locally there is no downsloping here though. He is a few miles NE of me, and its all flat and rural, and no direct bay breeze impacts. Just seems odd there would be a 5 degree difference without some sort of frontal boundary around, or a difference in cloud cover.

That seems high. 86 here currently. Your sensor in direct sun? Or maybe its the Goldsboro UHI.

Its warm out there, but a tad less humid than yesterday.

My grass sure is feeling the effects of transpiration from all the trees. Not lookin' too good.

We know what ya meant.

That's the view from the end of my driveway. I am in the woods, so I cant see much of anything this time of year. In general though it is wide open around here with all the farms and no hills, so chases to get cool photos of storms are easy. I have collected quite a few dramatic shelf cloud shots over the years.

Looks like another miss here. Its weakening on approach too. Might get a few pity drops lol.

Its gonna be close. Pretty cool looking storm though.

Here is my view of that line of storms sinking southward. Pretty noisy. Hopefully the western edge will clip my yard.

Sounds like my yard. 86 here now.

89/72 Haven't quite made it to 90 here. Feels full on summer out there though. Still not seeing indications of a stretch of hideous heat- mid to upper 90s- on the means. Looks like typical summer for here. 85-90, with generally moderate humidity levels, over the next week or so.

Good read @NorthArlington101 Congrats.

Incognito used to work on most sites, but now I usually get the white screen of death as soon as I click on a link to something of interest. That said, I just copied/pasted the link from the WP article and it actually worked this time, lol.