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Slight risk for tomorrow.

Lots of PEPCO outages showing preliminarily in the area off of Old Georgetown Rd in Bethesda.

Better storm than the brief thing earlier. Lots of lightning/thunder, and VERY hefty rain.

Pretty nice signature - will miss me to the south. But the beltway area should get smacked around a bit.

I got a brief rumble of thunder and a 5 minute downpour earlier. But certainly nothing noteworthy. Nice to have the rain, though. That SVR cell looks like it will miss me to the north

I''ll take my gusty showers and enjoy them I suppose.

Trajectory would seem to argue that my only hope is the cell between MIddleburg and Leesburg (if it can ramp up.

Other than the storm to the west of Manassas - things look pretty meh locally.

Radar actually looks decent. Lots of cells - if they can congeal and gain some intensity it could be a fun afternoon. They could just as easily form a DC area split, though.

Love that little appendage in the watch county outline in the counties bordering Garrett Co, MD.

Sun is out here in Colesville, MD

SPC seems to agree with the 2% - but shear is pretty weak sauce. Could be fun to see some quarter sized hail.

It's overall continued to be a very, very quiet May for the region. Question becomes whether we will get slapped around to break the quiet streak - or if it'll continue or just end with a whimper and a few storms.

The sound has gotten louder and louder the last few days. I drove through Laurel this morning and could hear it even while in the car with all of the windows up.

The GFS beyond 300 hours kind of has the ring of fire look to it. Big ridge in the center of the country/midwest and us on the eastern edge.

Today was the day. In the last hour or two I'm seeing increases in the hundreds it seems under the trees in the front yard. Can definitely hear a few singing already - but mostly it's tons of them coming up out of the lawn and crawling towards the trees. Here we gooooo

*Think* I can hear one or two. And found a small-ish shell on a tree. But definitely not major emergence here today. But between that and I did see one flying earlier. Probably going to go big here tomorrow with the warmer night and closer to 90 tomorrow.

It could just as easily be into June that we are waiting to see anything decent.

We'll see if today is finally the day around here in Colesville, MD. As of this morning still nothing showing. But it was another cool morning - full sunshine and 80 today should do it - and if not that - the forecast high of 86 and 89 for the following days should.

CIPS signal at 168hr

CIPS is showing some signal around the 240hr mark. Something to keep an eye on. Way out there, though.

Every time I see a picture or video of them coming out of the shells - I think of the movie Alien

My parent's house sits on the edge of NW Branch Park in the Colesville, MD area. If you're familiar with the area near Kemp Mill Rd and Randolph - they are sort of in that general area. My memory from 2004 is pretty spotty I'd assume. I remember it being a big deal and them going splat on the car windshield while driving - but I'm struggling to remember how prolific (or not) they were in the actual neighborhood. Their house was built in the 60s, and there really hasn't been new construction of homes at all in the past decades. I do seem to remember the noise being so loud it was creepy back then.

Have to imagine the cooler weather played at least some role in the splotchy emergence. Still really not much evidence around here. I've yet to see my first shell OR live cicada. Thought i Heard some of the singing in the distance the other day - but may have been imagining it. I've only been able to find one or two trees on my parent's property that have any holes. My condo up in Hanover/Arundel Mills is in a new-ish development so I'm doubting there will be any emergence there at all (it was all bulldozed/dug up in the years leading up to the neighborhood being built).

Extended CIPS at the 312hr mark looks much better.