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I think this weekend's weather has been great. I have the AC off, the windows open, and the ceiling fans are creating a gentle breeze throughout the house.

For the first time in what seems forever, it's finally dry enough to go out and attempt to tackle the yard. If I haven't posted again by tomorrow morning, please send a search and rescue team.

I'd wait because it's about to change.

Mattie is on a tear.

4.75" here. My yard is shaggy and the beds need a thorough weeding.

Man, this game can't end soon enough for the Bills. In other news, I am jealous of the frost and freeze advisories in Maine.

About 3.5" this weekend and 52.25" for the year.

The CoCoRaHS site seems to be amiss so saving today's entry here so I remember. .03"

The details of that event are really sad.

The wet summer wasn't good to my tomatoes, but I did get a bumper crop of ornamental squash for fall decorating.

I love reading 007's tropical posts, but he better not screw up our winter with any of these fantasy hurricanes.

Very happy with the .16" total here. Last evening was pretty nice with all the thunder, lightning, and fresh breeze from nearby storms. Just under 6" for August, and 27.13" for met summer.

Tropical deluge in western Ellicott City

The rain train is incoming here.

Not much going on up this way either compared to what the D.C. crew got a couple hours ago.

We are out near Smithsburg and can confirm it’s a deluge

Brother, you'd love Asheville, NC. Spent a few days there this week and really enjoyed ourselves. We did some great hiking and went to about ten breweries (walked to most!) but didn't nearly get to all of them. Just a beautiful area. These two pictures were taken from the Deep Gap Trail on a hike from Mt. Mitchell to Mt. Craig.

Thanks for the responses! Man, we loved Asheville and the surrounding area. Just beautiful and your summer climate is way better than Bmore's. Anyway, I hadn't seen the responses until we got back home but we did go south one day on the parkway and we stopped into the Mt Pisgah lodge for a beer and take in the view, then we hiked Black Balsam for a couple miles up to the balds. Really beautiful. On the way back into town that day, we did the short and steep walk/hike up to Devils Courthouse. Another day we went north, hung out with a bear on the Parkway, then made our way to Mt. Mitchell and hiked from there to Mt Craig. We would have liked more time to continue on that ridge because it was gorgeous and felt so far away from anything. Just spectacular scenery you've got down there. While in Asheville we stayed in some condos just south of the hospital and directly across the street from Hi-Wire Big Top location, and got a lot of great advice from the bartender, Jeremy. Maybe it's because it was our first stop when we got into town and so close to where we stayed, but my gf and I really enjoyed that place and loved their juicy fresh ne style IPA. During our stay, we also stopped in One World Brewing, Asheville Brewing, Green Man, Funkatorium, Burial, White Labs, Fat Tire, Wedge, and Zillicoah. In most cases, we'd split a flight between us, and just hang out enjoying the scene. There wasn't a place we didn't enjoy, and though we didn't make it to Wicked Weed, their Funkatorium was memorable for the selection and quality of sours. As a homebrewer, I also enjoyed White Labs because they ferment otherwise the same beers in different yeast strains. I thought that was pretty cool. And their pizzas are outstanding after a day of hiking. Though the taco truck at Zillicoah was really awesome too. Anyway, it was an excellent trip and already making plans for a return, maybe in the fall. eta: I'll be putting some photos in the Mid Atlantic Banter thread if anyone wants to see them.

This area has certainly had its share and then some. I don't understand groundwater but it's interesting to me that although Pikesville is locally a high point, there seems to be a high water table and a lot of springs in our neighborhood. We are right on the dividing line of the Gwynn Falls and Jones Falls watershed (we drain into Jones and a block away goes into Gwynn) so maybe that plays into our neighborhood drainage and standing water issues, but I have no idea. Maybe MNTransplant can explain it (I think his specialty is hydrology), but it seems counterintuitive to me. It's almost a miniature boggy Dolly Sods plateau around here! Anyway, we are happy to share.

We had 1.42" of surprise rain overnight. A very close neighboring CoCoRaHS reported over 3" which I'm happy to have missed.

Just .18" here but I'm not mad with that weekend setup still up in the air.

Drove out to Westminster this evening for dinner and on the way back we saw some decent distant lightning way off in the eastern sky. When I got home and checked the radar, I was surprised to see that the closest storms were nearly in Dover, DE.

If I was an airport, I'd be reporting a thunderstorm in the vicinity. Getting some decent rolling thunder here in Pikesville from that cell in downtown Bmore.

PSU may have an answer but it could be a lot of things. If all the fertilizer ponded in those areas, it could be fertilizer burn, but if it's a slow release, maybe not. If it's "patterned" or ring-shaped, it could be fungus from all the rain. If the soil is shallow, it could have died in the heat before the rainy pattern, but if this is the first year of it doing this, then I doubt it. On one side of my yard I have a mix of grasses that I'm slowly converting to all tall fescue by overseeding each fall, but every year by this time, there is an early season grass that goes dormant to the point of looking really dead. It could be that you have patches of something similar. You also mentioned that it's by the street so even something as arbitrary as winter road salt could be causing problems by messing with the soil and killing off desirable turf. At this point of the summer there isn't much to do but let it go and then in a month aerate, add nutrients, and seed with whatever works we'll in your area.

.35" yesterday and overnight. 2.16" for August.