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5 minutes ago, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

I need to learn Carolina geography.

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

Mattie is on a tear.

24 minutes ago, mappy said:

4.03" since Friday

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"

2 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Apparently two fatalities and a possible third in Harford county MD last night due to flooding.

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.

23 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Neighborhood PWS says only 0.28” which seems pathetic based on the upstream reports and radar. Pouring in greenbelt right now.

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

25 minutes ago, losetoa6 said:

Nice line of storms straddling the M/D line . Almost training with there trajectory.  Might hit my yard if course holds. 

81/76 

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

On 8/16/2018 at 5:40 PM, mattie g said:

I love beer

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.

On 8/8/2018 at 9:17 AM, AsheCounty48 said:

The forum is kinda dead this time of year so sorry for the late response. Can't really reccomend any hiking areas, but my personal al preference for beer is Wicked Weed Brewery. Been there MANY times and it's always a good place to go to. There's also an Irish pub that I'm gonna look up now to check the name of that I really like. Welcome to the area!

Edit* irish pub is named Jack of the Wood 

On 8/9/2018 at 9:23 AM, Buckethead said:

Check out the Art Loeb trail, you can't go wrong.  You can also take the Parkway South of town to Mt. Pisgah ( when you get here look SW of the city and it's the mountain towering over everything with the TV tower on it.). There's a short trail that leads to an old lookout tower that you can climb most of the way up on.  The view is unparalleled.  Also the arboretum is great but you have to pay for admission.  And breweries... That depends on your beer preference.  If you enjoy IPAs I favor New Belgium or Highland.  Wicked Weed is okay, but it's real touristy.  If you like sour beer then Greenman is the place.  

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.

14 hours ago, losetoa6 said:

Short range guidance last late evening actually showed parts of northern Md getting some heavy rain overnight so not really a total surprise. Btw ... Your yard is  the new rain magnet . 

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.

I hope that you all don't mind me dropping in but I'm wondering how the weather is looking for Asheville next week, though it sounds a lot like it's been here the past few weeks. Anyway, we've never been there and have heard great things so we are hoping to get down before the summer passes by. Any tips on day hikes and breweries would be appreciated! 

Thanks!

Just another .35" overnight. 18.02" since July 1.