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Wow

Not much wind, but there’s some serious electricity here. Most impressive I may have ever seen.

Pretty splitty for rainfall in Burke, but the lightning and thunder is super impressive.

And it de-beefed at 17z, but if you look at the radar depictions on the HRRR and the 12z NAM, the NAM is FAR closer to the current returns than is the HRRR. I mean...the HRRR isn't even close.

Too true.

Seriously? Anyone who used insecticides for cicadas is a f'ing moron.

Need the HRRRRRRR to beef up in these parts.

Rain is far more reliable in winter.

I might steal that idea about asking the teacher for some schoolwork! I think they're using tablets for a bit of their work this year, so we could get B to bang out a couple assignments before enjoying the rest of the day.

That's a great idea. It was nice to be able to do that before B started school, and we've actually decided to forego our end-of-summer trip to HHI in favor of taking the girls out of (pre)school and flying down for 5-6 days over Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day.

We started after Labor Day in South Jersey, with much of that due to the extension of the summer vacation season for the Shore. I guess I don't mind so much that schools go back a week or so before Labor Day as long as there's a long weekend to close out the summer, but man...early August? Are there lots of folks from NY and NJ that go to the Outer Banks? Seems like such a long trip when you have plenty of really nice places along the Shore to choose from.

I assume they do follow the same rules about the number of days in school, but that's still so early. It's odd to me that kids even go back before the end of the summer vacation season (Labor Day), but to go back a full month before that? It just boggles the mind.

That is insanely early. Lots of kids down south have been back for a week. Just crazy.

^ Thanks, @H2O

Maybe rhino…virus?

About to dip into some Eagle Rare…or Buffalo Trace. Had a few good hauls from the ABC the last month or so, and these are the “lesser” of the pickups, so might as well set my Friday base with a few-finger pour of one or the other before we hit the pool for happy hour.

Small shifts from run to run.

We’d be running naked through streets, except the only problem is that we’d be going from a prog of 41 and dry to 34 and rain.

But seriously...lots of guidance has shifted well NW today. Might be a local droughtbuster for some!

Euroed

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Sounding suspiciously like we're not actually going to bake all this week and that we may get some storms before heading into a wetter period. Weird how that works, huh?

You’re not interested in 31-degree snow that flips to 37-degree heavy rain?

But it's dry and it's (maybe) going to get really hot. We'd rather complain about something that may or may not be true / may or may not happen.

Same here! I'm all about competition. As a competitive athlete all my life through college, I thrived on it. In fact, that's something I really miss nowadays, which is just one reason I've picked up my golfing in the last year - to be able to feel that competitive spirit, even if I'm only competing with myself! But competition and fun don't have to be mutually exclusive, which I think is lost on far too many people. And while I would love to see our team go undefeated and get promoted through the divisions, I wouldn't want that to happen at the expense of the kids having a blast while it all takes place. As for the geographic split...given the relative ages of the neighborhoods, I would imagine you generally have newer pools with a more modern setup and amenities in central and western Fairfax County than you do with pools closer to the Beltway, particularly the eastern/southeastern portions of the county, as well in Alexandria and Arlington. There are also some of the upper-class areas in those parts of the county, so you're also dealing with a higher proportion of folks with a...certain mindset. And some folks just get uppity when they encounter any infrastructure (including pools) that just seems older and doesn't have the luxuries they're used to.