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23 hours ago, WeatherShak said:

Wondering what’s going on here. And there’s two other USAF tankers in the air nearby that I’ve checked in black.

I heard one fly over a little while ago and it's still making rounds......

1 minute ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Never seen 11 players in the penalty boxes before

standing room only!

1 hour ago, mappy said:

 

thanks. going back to bed. 

Rest up!

17 minutes ago, Bodhi Cove said:

Keep the hummingbird feeders away from feeders for other birds. Secondly hang the hummingbird feeders somewhere high enough that raccoons and squirrels can't get to it. Once those little critters get a taste of that sugar water the feeder will be empty the day after you fill it up....

Thanks!  I have them hanging from my porch  above the railing, so they are a good 10+ feet from the ground.  I have had some in the past when the flowers are bloomed, but expect them to come a little more regularly when I get the planting done. 

Thanks for all of the advice here.  I'll let everyone know when they do appear. 

8 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

Replying to myself but also @WxUSAF - Gotta wonder if it's something related to VA-267. At least roughly if you follow on Google Earth an imaginary line running from the radome to the ESE along 267 and then continue that line - it would end up somewhere near/just south of Easton...maybe traffic?  

Traffic seems light now.  Could it be a crane working on the Metro Extension to Dulles?  Not sure how far along that is, but it was projected to be completed this summer.   It would also make sense as to why it is not there all of the time. 

32 minutes ago, vastateofmind said:

Not sure why LWX is down, but for the record -- I don't care for the new NWS radar. It takes forever to load and I just don't like how it displays. I don't mean to sh*t on others' hard work, as I know they had to replace the legacy radar with something, but....

I now generally prefer to use Windy.com for radar if I'm at the laptop or, of course, Radarscope on mobile.

I totally agree. I remember when @Jebman first brought the new radar up as a bad upgrade earlier this year. 

You also don't get as much detail on their maps either.  The returns seem to be in a grid, so you don't see any smoothing or contouring of where the actual rain lines are.  Kind of resembles Minecraft. :-(

7 hours ago, Chris78 said:

Just watched the replay of the Tom Wilson mele. 

Does the league suspend him?

I would be most concerned with the punch to the back of the head.

Looked like he hit him in the left shoulder, but it it hard to tell from the angle I saw.  either way, Wilson need to know that any borderline contact he has is going to be reviewed.  I hope he isn't suspended, but think this will get him a few games. 

1 hour ago, wxdude64 said:

^^^ second this ^^^

3 hours ago, BlizzardNole said:

Height off the ground is fine -- one of mine is 12 feet up.  Is it your first year putting them out?  It took a while for them to discover my feeders the first year, but they became regular after that.  Just make sure you keep the nectar fresh and they'll come around.

thx!   Will do.  Also put an oriole feeder out, but the wind took that down on Friday night. 

1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Another Tornado Warning coming out for Carroll.

heading towards @mappy

STW issued here.

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is the cell moving to the ENE? 

Hof high of the ground do you put your hummingbird feeders?   I have some hanging from the porch and haven't seen any hits in the past 2 weeks.  Should I move them to a lower height? 

4 hours ago, mattie g said:

Love hearing about all these second COVID shots!

Congrats, everyone!!

I'll be there in 3 weeks.    By then our entire house will be fully vaxed :-)

1 hour ago, H2O said:

EVERYTHING can be fixed with duct tape.  

I've also used Flex-Seal tape too and that did a good job as well. 

3 minutes ago, SnowGolfBro said:

Having Brad and Russ healthy and on the same page is what we needed. Chemistry takes time and with the Covid off-season and then the Covid hit early in the season it just didn’t give them time to gel. Now that is happening guys like Bertans and Lopez and Neto are filling their roles nicely. And agree with an above post about the Gafford addition. He has been great. Also Alex Lenaissance has been solid.  Exciting time to be a Wiz fan!

It is.  I hate that Advjia is out for the rest of the year.  Hachimura being healthy is helping too.  That dunk on AD last night was pretty sweet. 

Lopez is a beast.....he doesn't' get a ton of credit, but his opponents abuse him, and he never blows his fuse.  He is a great guy to have on the team. 

3 hours ago, LP08 said:

I saw a good quote about him.  One play he looks like a hall of famer  and the next G league.

 

I enjoy watching him play but I really think the addition of Gafford has propelled them.

they are definitely a jeckle and hyde team.  Was at the game last week against Golden State and the 1st and 4th quarters were totally opposite of 2nd and 3rd.   

They need to play more consistently on defense though.....When they do, they seem to be unstoppable. 

21 hours ago, Mrs.J said:

Broke down and turned on the air. The girls said even in the lower level it was warm.

I did yesterday as well.  Was trying to hold out until at least May 1st and I almost made it. 

3 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Pics, plz, @Mrs.J.....either here or over in the lawn/garden thread! (If you don't mind sharing) I love to see what folks got growing, and have picked up a lot of ideas in here over the past couple of months.

In their late teens, my sons had iPhone SE's back in the mid 2010s...which ALWAYS had broken screens because those knuckleheads were never careful with them. I tried ONCE to replace a broken screen on one of them (and the battery, since I was conducting surgery anyway) and completely hosed the innards. Got everything reconnected and put back together, after studying five meticulous DIY iPhone screen replacement videos, but the damn thing refused to power back on. Learn from my bravado -- unless you're really handy with microelectronics, I'd definitely take it to a repair shop, which I eventually did with the iPhone SE that *I* ruined. My guys paid for numerous other screen replacements out of their own pockets, and they typically paid ~$100 several years ago....though I'm sure it's saltier than that for the more current, larger iPhone models. (And yeah, might as well pony up for a battery replacement if you need it, since it will already be apart.)

I fixed my son's iPhone 6 screen 2x and my wife's once.  You do have to be careful with the ribbons, and I had to wear my old man glasses since they are really small parts.  :-)

10 hours ago, wxtrix said:

when i was a kid, salmon came in cans and my mom would make patties and fry it up. I hated them, but i did love the crispy salmon cake crust.I use Nick Stellino's method for pan frying salmon to get a crisp crust on the salmon itself, which takes me back to the good part of those childhood salmon cakes. i served it with with lemon-zested rice, and sauteed squash and onions.

 

Me Too!  Nothing like a salmon cake made in a cast iron frying pan. 

SO happy that my neighborhood is only 14 years old.  I'll have them in the surrounding woods, but hopefully not as much in the yard. 

14 hours ago, wxtrix said:

the Hagerstown site is running every day and will take anyone, even if you don’t have a appointment or you don’t live in Maryland.

Make sure you get there early.  I was near there last Wed and they had closed the walk-ups at 2:30. 

On 4/11/2021 at 9:56 AM, mattie g said:

Decided to take a day off this coming Friday to get the deck sanded and stained. For now, the weather looks great for it and for next weekend, so hopefully the forecast sticks.

How did it go? 

3 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Ok so the local farm where we have our CSA and get all our plants at also has a micro brewery on site. Anyways they bring in food trucks on Saturday and Sunday's. Tomorrow they are having a new truck called Pop-Up-Poutine  We may just have to venture down there. I love Poutine as does the older Miss J. 

I saw that truck at Linganore last weekend, but by the time i got in line, they were sold out. :-(

1 minute ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Since it’s an average per inning, it won’t make a difference. However, your question made me wonder about extra inning games. They now start a runner on second base so I’m wondering if that runner scores, is it counted against a pitcher’s era. Had the pitcher come into the game with a runner on second, it would have been the precious pitcher’s run, right? And what about taking a loss in extras? That’s some bs too.

I totally agree.  Some of the relievers contracts are based on statistics, so do they lose in the end? 

In the big scheme of the things, this is all just banter, but i thought it was something that would be good to discuss here. 

Baseball Statistic question here.  Normally ERA is based on a 9 inning game.  Any thoughts on if those 7 inning doubleheader games will calculate ERA differently?  

I know that most pitchers don't pitch 9 innings, or even 7 anymore, but just wondering how the formula might change because of this.