Itstrainingtime

To be fair...ITT recorded 0.00" officially at home.

And now it's a full-on downpour. It's riding right down the river.

Despite zero mention of rain in today's forecast, it's actually raining pretty darn hard out there right now. Edit: It's raining quite hard here at work. No rain at home. Wife says "whaddya talkin' about?"

A few big raindrops here at work now. MU cranking the heavy rain threat for tomorrow...

Mini bonus appetizer before tomorrow. CTP has upped expected amounts it looks like...calling for a general .5" - 1". Hopefully we can keep an every few/several days of rain pace.

Been a long time since I went to Taco Bell...mainly because the next day was Taco hell...

We do annual heat illness prevention training here at work.

Looks like we go through another strong storm with trailing frontal passage scenario around the Monday timeframe, and that could bring yet another bout of severe weather...

Going to need to shag some more help to clean up that mess.

Sunny and 82 at 12:10pm.

I think I understand the fiber of your message...so you're saying that tomorrow isn't seamless?

The only person who you claim deserved this doesn't give a rat's ass what happens on the field anyway. Those players have nothing to do with this.

I might be angrier than I have at any point in my life right now. I'm sick. The ""Orioles" did not deserve this. In fact, they deserve so much better.

That's exactly what I'm afraid of.

The clouds today have a fall-like appearance to them... I was out over lunch and started daydreaming (still focused on driving, of course) about fall football Saturdays at Beaver Stadium coming soon.

Thank you! I have not looked at any guidance, I've only been seeing a mention for a chance of a thunderstorm on Thursday and what you've been describing seems a bit more in-depth than that.

How much rain potentially is on the table?

Finally. I was 18 when the Orioles won the 1983 World Series. I had been a huge fan since my dad took me to my first game on 33rd Street in 1976. During the first decade of being an Orioles fan meant 2 things: A whole lot of winning An organization that was the envy of baseball - "The Oriole Way" Back then, I was naïve enough to think that winning titles would come rather quickly...an excruciating loss in '79 followed by a 100 win season in '80. The incredible end to the '82 season followed by the '83 championship team. Life was so good... That was 40 years ago. Man, I'm getting older. Older, and still waiting for a return trip to the Fall Classic. So many of the last 40 years have been lost and hopeless. But now, the young guns are flourishing and it's been an absolute joy to watch. This team is fun. It plays hard. They play the game the right way. It's almost like a rewind of the clock back to when I was a kid... But...now this. You all have said it better than I can. What an embarrassment. The thing that makes this particularly bad is that it now diminishes what's happening on the field. For the first time since I was a kid, the Orioles have been talked about by others with admiration...respect...awe...and now this. Why? How can a family be such a public relations disaster?

You were really unlucky with rainfall yesterday - I tripled your amount, and just south of you there were amounts in excess of what I got. I did much better than you from the overnight Sunday rains...I think you said you only had a couple of hundredths of an inch, while I had nearly a third of an inch.

Just embarrassingly awful, and it comes at a time when the on-field product is worth getting truly excited about. I've watched and re-watched it countless times (I actually was watching it live that night) and I'm genuinely stunned over what has transpired. Kevin Brown literally was celebrating the fact that hey, we're a good enough team to finally win in Tampa and he gets suspended for reading a graphic that quite obviously, someone else put it together and someone else decided to run with it and put it on the screen. Like, this is all kinds of shameful embarrassment for the Angelos group. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but even for this group...no one could have seen this coming. If this was the NFL, our ownership group would be more prolifically shamed than Daniel Snyder ever was. Can't even enjoy and let success go - gotta find a way to still embarrass ourselves.

I'll admit - after a busy morning yesterday I got next to nothing done in the afternoon. Severe weather threat days sort of stress me out. We're usually out of the woods for severe by this time of the year barring something from a tropical system, but the current pattern might lend itself to more opportunities going forward. Joy.

In a few months the sun will still be out here while it's snowing in Clearfield.

I noticed this at sunset last night - sky looked much different than it has in months. My wife saw it too. It wasn't a traditional summer sky. It won't be long now.