My neighbor was cutting his lawn (hay at this point) yesterday and there was so much dust being kicked up by the mower that I understood how the dust bowl happened.
Yeah after the last two years I don't even care if it snows down here this winter , I'm just fine with noreaster after noreaster of 40F and rain (I'll change my tune in December).
What the hell is it with this precip split for Southern Maryland. It's been all summer. Rain north, rain south, black hole in the middle. We better make up for it this winter.
Rode my motorcycle to/from the gym this morning. Definitely a hazy, orange sunrise. But I couldn't smell any smoke or anything, even on my bike, so it didn't really bother me.
I spent the first 25yrs of my life in Michigan (born 1980) and not once do I recall anything about wildfire smoke. I didn't even know it was a thing until after I move out here.
Not sure on totals from yesterday's storm. Prince fred Mesonet says 0.28" but at my place about 2mi north you wouldn't surprise me if you said I got 2.8". It dumped here for a while and was very heavy. Way more than a quarter inch. There must've been some cutoff shenanigans or something.
It's definitely happening. That big storm has its eyes on Calvert. Was out taking care of caterpillars and tons of thunder and the humidity can be cut with a knife. Gonna be a drought buster for sure.
One of the things I was not prepared for when we moved from Michigan to "the south" was how paranoid people are of snakes down here. I don't know if it's religious or what the deal is, people are so weird about them down here.
I eat my words. Was watching the Arlo camera back home and it was torrential downpour then the camera feed cut and I immediately got a SMECO text that power was lost to our house. Good to see some rain there finally! Looks like a decent shower complex moving in here at the cabin. Doesn't seem like we need the rain much up here but it will make for a good night collecting moths if we get.some.rain this evening.
Heat wave 2026 is over here at DCL. Clouded over with tons of thunder non-stop. First storm went barely to our north but the outflow really cooled us down and more storms are incoming. We've dropped into the low 70s.
Drove down to Lowe's near DCL this morning and my car thermometer read 87F around the lake. Got back up to the cabin and it was down to 81F. Some clouds moved through and it's not bad outside as long as you're not in the sun.
Out at the cabin...it's a breezy 82F. Though it is a tad humid so I had to close the windows and put the A/C on for a few hours til the sun drops down. Some patchy clouds moved in so that should hold temps down a bit.