Eskimo Joe

Warmer global temps = more instability = more wind

Several 30+ gusts today.

If it's a raging, basin wide El Nino in September, then it's time to just put the coffin in the ground IMO. We might get lucky with a 2016 like fluke, but I wouldn't bet money on it happening twice in a decade.

If it's a strong, basin wide El Nino then I mentally prepare for 1998 or 2022-23.

Hope everyone got their snow fix last year. That's a black dog look for 2026-2027.

I would welcome a statewide 1" -1.5" and call it a day. We need several events where the soil profile has the opportunity to slowly rehydrate, not some big event where we get several months of rain in a couple of hours.

Went up to Farmer Stan's in Upperco. Got more Lobelia Cardinalis, Bee Balm, Daisies, and Columbines. We have them in a cold frame right now for the cool weather tonight. I'm especially hopeful that I can keep the deer away this year and get my Russian Mammoth sunflowers to take. Last year, deer got inside our fence and ruined our entire garden in one night.

Builders scrape vast quantities of topsoil and then sell it for profit. It's a total scam.

What did you plant? I'm always looking for good plant ideas. RE: dry soil, I agree. @wxmeddler and I were talking about that earlir this week. Bittinger got almost and inch of rain, but the four inch soil moisture probe barely moved. Must be a combination of hard pan soils and surface vegetation being very thirsty.

Oh, month to date rainfall. Interesting. @wxmeddler might be a useful product to add to the page!

Would recommend a Tempest as a quick replacement. I've had one for several years and it's quite cost effective. If you get a backup power pack from them, your data will be preserved and uploaded post-event for documentation. It's a very nice backyard product.

Latest HRRR really tries to give the Mason-Dixon counties a solid few hours of soaking rain.

Great question! Long term data is stored, but the website hasn't evolved yet to display that information. As a temporary work around, I've been taking the URL for the Las Vegas ASOS (you can use any western region ob) that capture the 5-min observations (https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KVGT), then switch out the airport code for the MD mesonet stations, which use the nomenclature of three digits then MD (EX: 001MD, 002MD, etc.) Once you swap out the site code, refresh the page then left click 'Advanced Options' and you can select a time from the 'Number of Hours to Retrieve'. Paging @wxmeddler in case I missed anything.

18z HRRR is insistent on //some// rain for everyone, but it really tries to run a few decent thunderstorms north of I-66 that drop localized 1" amounts.