Eskimo Joe

38 this AM

37 this AM. Hoping to seed the first new lawn area on Monday.

Watering the deck and was surprised to see no less than half a dozen monarchs. This front must be scooping up a bunch of straggling seasonal birds and insects and escorting them south.

Was surprised by a hummingbird hitting the feeder hard today. Refreshed all the feeders and hoping to feed them.

GFS has a monster cutoff low for the start of October.

Wonder what, if any, impacts there are from the number of US landfalling tropical cyclones and temp/precip the following winter.

A damn good thread on improving tornado warning accuracy, it includes a couple of radar grabs from Frederick County, MD. Big takeaway is this research so far is only valuable if the storm is within 60 km (37 mi) from the radar site.

Got the wife hooked on fly fishing and caught my first two largemouth bass on the fly rod last weekend. Hoping to try Gunpowder Falls, Antietam Creek, and Beaver Creek next year.

Sighting the instrument is the most important part, IMO. I have mine 6 feet above the around with nothing around the site in about 30 feet.

You're probably right, it seems we are more like North Carolina climo or tidewater of VA these days.

We have everything going against us into this winter. You'd think sooner or later the tables would turn and we'd have a shot for at least climo.

Odd. It appears that Camp David (KRSP) is visible in my AWIPS II thin client, but not on GR.

44 for a low this morning in Reisterstown. My garden is abruptly coming to an end, I'm hoping we can salvage the last of our squash this week before ending things.

Having a weather station depends on a couple of things, the most important being where you live. Since you own your home, you can sight an instrument wherever you like and not worry about rules of a condo or apartment. The size of your lot and exposure will have a bearing on wind and precipitation accuracy. Stations such as the David VP2, which are great, are more complicated and require the anemometer to be sighted usually at a location separate from the rest of the kit. I purchased the Tempest station from WxFlow the other week and it's been working great. It was $300, BUT WxFlow is offering 10% of right now if you use the code Tempest10off. This allows you to get better shipping and still come out around $300. I've linked my weather station to Wunderground (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KMDREIST45)and so far the station is right in line with everyone around me. I will say the biggest shortcoming with the Tempest from WxFlow is that you don't have a wall display like you do with other stations, everything is on your phone or tablet. If this is critical for you, then I would advise against purchasing this particular device.

Where in the sky and when can it be viewed?

Cool. We're ripping out two garden beds that are just not successful and going to flatten out and seed with grass this weekend then.

You can link to Wunderground and there's specific guidance they reference from WMO and COCORAHS on instrument sighting. Their interface is pretty nice too. Here's my station data: https://tempestwx.com/station/28172/

Guess it's time for fall seeding and aeration?

No, but I am equally curious so I am going to buy one and will let you know.

Love my Tempest wx station. Highly recommend.

My weather station comes tomorrow...it pours today. Ironic.

Copy thanks.