Herb@MAWS

Traveling thru Turkey for 2-1/2 weeks before heading further south to the Greece island of Samos. Talk about dry: 10 days ago in Istanbul it rained some. First rain there since May. Just my luck. Probably no more than 1/4”. 90 or higher every day there but nice cool nights 50s/60s by the time I reached Cappadocia region. Soot in the air, haze, and it just hangs along the mountains. Now am more south toward Greece in Selcuk, again no rain and 95 or better each day. You can almost taste the dust. Worst part is I can’t watch three Ravens games. Even if I could have watched the Bills game (and am glad I missed it) …. it started at 3am Monday here.

Into my 2nd week in Turkey. Today 96 and dry in Selcuk, was 99 yesterday. Wet, washed jeans completely dried on outside clothesline in less than 4 hours.

In Istanbul currently. Very dry, hi 80s. Just like home! (sorta)

Imby August total rainfall: 0.16”

Literally … taking center stage in Thursday evening image.

First measurable August rainfall imby today — 0.04”

Bottomed out at 61.4 IMBY / east side Columbia.

Reached my low temp for today (so far) this evening. Current 76; a.m. low 77

East side of Columbia so far today: 1.06” today 9.23” July

0.65” imby from that first cell. Temp dropped from 87 to 82.

Pouring in Columbia along with a little thunder.

A bit more rain fell imby after the 4pm main storm: 1.80” today 8.17” July

Afternoon gully washer has passed thru. So far: 1.66” today, 8.03” for July

Thumping and dumping big time around Columbia.

A whopping 0.06” overnight.

On east side of Columbia …. had a trace around 9:30pm. Enough to wetten down grass etc. I could see the edge of the main cell and the intense lightning to my NE. And loud thunder, before everything headed away. Probably missed me by no more than 5 miles or so.

Good quality sounding booms off to my north (from Columbia). Also some building cumulus at sunset in N&NW skies. Radar has something to the north, heading SE-ward so it could be a good hit …. or a swing and a miss. Will know shortly.

Got to 90 here late in afternoon. A bit surprised, didn’t think this morning I’d get there. Still 81 here now at 9:30pm But was outside mowing, working etc earlier from 12-2pm and I found it to be awful. Sweating profusely. The grass got unusually high … unusually quickly … in the past week.

0.40” in today’s late afternoon storm. 6.37” for July so far.

From my view south from Columbia, it looks like a really good electrical storm toward Laurel and Burtonsvillle. Lightning is even intense here. Looks like I could miss by a little, unless it builds northward a bit.

Isolated pop-up heavy shower imby just before 8pm.

0.80” in my corner of Columbia last night. 5.92” in July so far.

1.78” today so far. 5.12” July so far.

Still raining some but appears to be at least a solid 1.5” so far. Great electrical storm. Temp only has fallen to 76°.

Storm finally in Columbia. Good l&t plus downpours.