Eskimo Joe

The bridge will be rebuilt. Hazmat can't navigate the harbor tunnel, so bulk carriers frequently used the FSK bridge. If this were converted to a tunnel, then it would cause even more of a choke point for logistical movement of hazmat commodities coming from Curtis Bay refineries and warehouses.

Couple of key points: Ship appears to have lost power twice within 30 minutes of departing the port of Baltimore. Pilot on ship immediately called coast guard, declared may day, and advised bridge be shut down. You can see this on the video where traffic appears to stop suddenly. This occurred less than 7 minutes before impact. Police shut down both directions of the bridge as soon as they could. For context, about 32,000 cars traverse the structure each day. Had this been even 4:30 or 5:00 am it would have been a totally different scenario

The 4am wake up call for that was surreal. Weather isn't going to cooperate too much after tonight, with possible coastal flooding, rain, low ceilings, and wind.

Good point. Maybe the models haven't taken this into account? /s

Our Lenten Rose's have finally come into their own. Amazing sustained blooms.

Wait, what?

Every station mesonet in Maryland recorded a perfect solar radiation curve today, with each site recording a daily maximum of over 900W/m².

Garrett County got into the teens this morning. Impressive.

Baltimore City mesonet site is now live: https://weather.umd.edu/mdmesonet/?station=baltimore For NOAA/NWS users, it should be in AWIPS/MADIS 12z on Thurs 3/28 as site 008MD.

Pain

Appears to be M1.3" storm total.

People would be jumping off the cliff if this were winter. We lost close to a foot of imaginary snow in 6 hours.

Another casual +15 departure at BWI...

20 years ago it'd be snow.

We're so boned. We're racking up +15 days like it's nothing and the comments section on social media is willfully ignorant to it.

I was hoping for at least climo with a nice areawide 6-10" event. At least we got something.

Canceling winter before summer even hits. Classic Mid Atlantic.

That was a legit flizzard last night. Woke up to a light dusting on the deck. Officially recorded as a Trace in my Co-Op obs this morning. Our Frostburg mesonet site appears to have recorded a 1/2" measurement overnight, which now looks to have melted.

With the earth's axis tilting up for summer, wouldn't that imply a south trend? I don't think the model guidance will be honing on this until it gets closer to the event? /s

Forsythia bushes are starting to bloom. Tulips are coming up. Daffodils are blooming.

Start the thread.

Look how warm the Great Lakes are, especially Lake Superior. Airmass modification for sure.