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That's the truth. And it's also the first time in many years that we have any potential long-lead favorable indices.

That should keep you going until at least sol 500! I agree with everyone. This is a stellar weekend for even September, and I'll take as many more of these that we can get. I also just heard my first cicada of the season.

Thanks, and interesting. I have rarely clicked on the hrrrx so I don't have a layman's opinion, but here's to hoping that the non-x version scores a coupe tonight.

I've found the hrrr to be pretty accurate this spring and early summer, at least in my vicinity. I'm assuming the hrrrx has better overall verification scores?

Man, I hope that I get into some of that heavy rain action. Just over .10" from the earlier little storm.

A nice little storm blowing up over us. Nothing too heavy but decent thunder and lightning.

Yeah, today didn't feel any better than the last few days. Also, I didn't know where to post this but the LWX site has a good review of the May EC flood. https://www.weather.gov/lwx/EllicottCityFlood2018

.35" in the gauge and though I wish it was more, it was a nice surprise so I'm not going to get greedy. Lots of steam rising off the concrete now and everything smells like decaying fish. I love summer.

Temperature down to 80 and almost .25 in the gauge. I swear I think fireworks are a rain maker. Tenman will back me up on this.

Cool. Lawn has to wait!

I was just getting ready to go out and cut the grass when what looked like a bunch of birds crapping. It's still sunny and huge raindrops falling accompanied by a stellar strike of lightning.

An advantage, and maybe the only advantage, to living in a more urban area, is less critters for my garden. I used to have one of the garden plots along Oakland Mills Rd when I had a condo in Columbia 25 years ago, and one summer there was some critter that would take one bite out of everything and then leave it there. I never saw him by day, but I swore I'd get him. One night after getting off of work late at the O's game, I went over to water (you had to use buckets from the spigot on site), and as I approached my plot, I could see a groundhog munching away. I picked up my shovel, and for whatever reason he didn't move and I had a clear shot of him. I learned that night that other than being a big-ass pansy, that for the remainder of that summer, I was working for a semi-blind groundhog that was going to be well fed.

Dude, that sucks. I have always thought that deer didn't like tomato plants. Hopefully there's still time for them to recover.

Part EC's problem, and elsewhere is the region, is also probably over-development. There's a lot of concrete all sloping into those tributaries around downtown. edit...I agree with Maestro

WBAL 11 is live covering it but it's redundant.

Does anyone know a way to kill or control common English ivy? If you look at the picture above, I've got a lot of it creeping in under my Leylands on two sides of my yard from my neighbor's yards. They aren't deliberately growing it, so I could kill it, but I don't know of anything that I can use that won't kill everything else. Right now my plan is to run my edger along the neighbor's edge of the property just deep enough to cut the ivy and then pull it all out, but that's going to be a lot of work, and then I'll somehow have to control it to keep it from running back in. Not to mention that I'll probably end up with poison ivy for the rest of the summer. Anyone have suggestions?

Yeah, I bag too. The fescue in my backyard is so ridiculously thick that when it stays wet for extended warm/hot periods like we've had, some type of fungal damage is inevitable. It's not bad from a distance, but when you're on top of it, there's no doubt something yucky is starting to grow. You can see the areas of yellowing in this picture. I got some fungicide today at southern states that'll fix it right up.

I don't know how I missed EJ's lawn video above but I totally ageee with the fall aerating. The aerator in the video is the exact one that three of my buddies and I chipped in for about 15 years ago and it's still going strong. We circulate it between us every fall and though I don't throw a top dressing over the lawn after aerating as in the video, I do seed right away. The holes provide the perfect environment for the grass to germinate and after a week or so, the whole lawn looks like a bald man that joined a hair club with bright green sprouts coming out of every hole. As far as dethatching, I've never done it but if I did, I'm not sure that I'd do it in the spring because of I've read that you want to disturb the lawn as little as possible in the spring to keep from helping any seeds germinate. Anyway, thanks for the video EJ, and the reason I am posting is because with all the rain recently, and more to come, I can see the first signs of fungus issues in my yard. It looks like yellowing patches. If anyone else wants to treat it or prevent it, I've had good success with Scotts Diease Ex. It's not a fertilizer but a fungicide, and can be used once a month if the problem persists, though in the couple of times I've used it, I've only ever had to do one application. Finally, one more unrelated thing. I've been using my pickup truck as the weed and hedge clipping pile for the past week or two and haven't been able to get to the dump. As I finished up cutting the grass this evening, I noticed a bunch of baby praying mantises all over my truck. It seems that I harvested an egg sac in the hedge clippings last week and it's hatching this evening. Now I've got to pull the tarp out of the truck and let it sit in the driveway for a couple of days because I don't want to share my new pets! eta that my allergies are the worst that I can remember in years.

Fredrick county is this year's Ellicott City.

I need a decoder ring. On topic, picked up 1.20" from the overnight storms and up to over 2.5" for May.

Man, I don’t want any big hail. It’s looking awfully dark and ominous here. We are getting the outflow from in front of the storms now and it feels great. We’ve got it annual Black Eye Susan party beginning Friday morning and I guess after 12 years I can’t complain if we get a gulley washer, but hoping for the best.

Some of that storm went through here. 20 minutes of decent thunder and heavy rain. .25"

^^ Cute dog. Keeping it simple, sod on the left in the 16 X 12 area as well as the area to the right nearest the stone. I'd mulch around the tree in the back corner to the right. If you can get into the ground between the roots of the tree, that liriope can be re-planted or you can mulch the area between the stone and the tree roots to the right instead of sodding and put the liriope in there. Finally, I'd screw a bottle opener and cap collector on one of those 4 X 4 posts.

I'll put this at the top of my list too. I wasn't there when it happened but we lost power during the storm and went out for a drive to charge cell phones and ended up down there. Unbeknownst to us, the whole thing was playing out as we were making the 20 minute trip. My gf was reading aloud a few tweets saying there was a lot of flooding, but the videos weren't circulating yet and nothing prepared us for what we saw. We were on the Baltimore county side of the bridge near Oella and cars were piled up everywhere. Even watching the search and rescue teams carefully making their way through the wreckage, we still didn't appreciate the magnitude. It wasn't until the drive home that my gf made me pull over to watch the videos that were showing up online did we see the full scale.

It must be good. It's what they use at Augusta. Pine needles are nature's Holly Tone. So yes, helping.