09-10 analogy

Yesterday was the loudest so far. I didn’t get a decibel reading, but while parked under a grove of trees, I’d say the sound was unpleasantly loud when the song cycle (for lack of a better term) peaked.

Except for that one storm last week, this thunderstorm season has been underwhelming so far. Then again, "it's Chinatown DC, Jake."

Gapped so far, and a peek at some of the SPC mesoscale doesn't seem too encouraging for DC immediate. Still, the Sterling discussion said: "Continued moisture advection and height falls overnight will likely lead to at least scattered shower and thunderstorm activity persisting well into the overnight hours, though with somewhat less intensity overall" (ital mine) So maybe we'll get something a bit later?

Full sun day and instability produces around here again, as people have said. Solid T&L event last evening. Been waiting on one of those for awhile. Lots of CG around, especially at the tail end of the storm: something else that's not uncommon.

Could be. It’s a pretty thick canopy, soil temps might be cooler. I love that park. Everyone talks about Rock Creek, which is wonderful, but Glover Archibald is NW’s little secret.

Doesn’t make sense, I know. Maybe all the cicadas there were in therapy or something at that time.

That cell to my SW seems to be trying to build up my way. Cells in central Montgomery aren’t exactly dryline magic.

Curiously, when I walked into Glover-Archibald Park yesterday, the background "song" was notably quieter there, and there were fewer carcasses sprinkled on the ground: though to the latter point, they are harder to pick out in a forest's undergrowth than on, say, a concrete sidewalk, so maybe it's just a matter of contrast. The background whirring is frankly louder when walking along Wisconsin Ave than it is when walking the G-A P trail. You'd think with all the trees around, the cicadas would have been flying around like P-51s during Big Week in WWII and a few would have landed on me and done their ritualistic sssslllooowwww doo-wop dance or whatever thing they do. (Evidently the males form choruses.) But that didn't happen at all while I was in the park. The distant, "whirring" song is more pronounced in certain neighborhoods than others, as is the more immediate "crackling" sound. Still, neither is as loud yet as some of the sleet storms we had this past winter. It's making me miss my dogs. 17 years ago, both our beagles were alive and in the prime of their lives, with the older one trying his damndest to gorge out on the bugs. Poor little buggers seem doomed, though, when they're belly up. I've tried to turn over a couple. They're 17 years underground and in their literal moment in the sun, they're flat on their back and can't do a damn thing, and I try to help 'em out and move them into the grass so they can get it done. But it's hard to turn them over without hurting them. I get the impression that once they've gone to ground, it's basically game over for them anyhow. Most of the mating occurs in trees, or so I've read. Thing is, I'm fond of the little guys but they really don't look that much different from roaches, which I absolutely despise and immediately and prejudically exterminate whenever I see them. I was walking with my wife, two cicadas alit on her and she hated that. Eek-eek, and this is someone who doesn't readily go into "eek" mode. Whereas the Flying Cicada Brothers don't bother me at all. If cicadas kept the mosquito population in line, I'd be partial to having them around all season long, every year. But then the novelty would wear off. ,

Certainly not a Brood-x worthy storm so far.

Just heard my first thunder

Elizabethan collars help to prevent the doggies from feasting

Is there an equivalent to a dendritic growth zone when it comes to forecasting cicada accumulations? Looking forward to walking through Rock Creek Park or Glover Archibald once the little guys have come for afternoon tea. Ought to be quite the chorus.

With debris in the air

Moderate risk for most of the Carolinas on Thursday as well. Shades of April 14-16 2011, an outbreak that's been kind of forgotten, given what happened later that April and May.

This storm would put me way above climo if it was measured in decibels rather than inches.

Near-bombardment of sleet now

Mostly sleet here now with a little FZRN mixing in. Started out light to mod snow but then changed over pretty quick.

Finally some light flakage in up nw

Pesci's character beats the hell out of Frank Vincent's (Batts in "Goodfellas") in "Raging Bull," too. I always liked that in "Casino," Scorsese finally gave Vincent (Frankie) the opportunity to get back at Pesci (Nicky Santoro) in the cornfield. Additionally, that scene was a necessary counterpoint to "Field of Dreams," a movie I thought was dreadful. Liotta was in that one, too. Now that I think about it, there's some sort of conspiracy going on here.

Amazing map. Just about every state west of the Appalachians has some kind of winter-related alert.

Chiming in, in upper NW cars are encased and there is growing accretion of ice on trees. I can tell untreated sidewalks are probably an invitation to a hard fall so I’ll be “enjoying” this from the inside looking out. There’s a little sleet but mostly FZRN.

So that means, in exchange, we get an outbreak of EF3s-5s this spring? Or a June 23, 1944 outbreak redux, displaced 100-200 miles or so to the east?

Side streets covering up nicely in upper nw. Since my house faces north I still had some snow on the ground from last weekend. Most of my front yard is pretty much shadowed from the sun all day at this time of year. So, at least IMFY, this is the much-desired snow on top of snow. I never got too invested in this one for some reason, so my ruling passion is ambivalence for today. Passionate ambivalence is not a bad way to come to grips with a lot of life’s little PITAs.

Shoveling was, unexpectedly, not bad. I shoveled Sunday but then the ice/sleet accreted, so I dreaded having to hack away at that once I removed the new layer of snow. But it came up easily enough and in places where it didn't, like on the brick entrance to the house, I just whacked at it a time or two with the shovel and it loosened up. I rather like shoveling soft snow -- though I'm not as much of a fan of it than Jeb -- but shoveling ice, like walking on it, is a pain. I guess being above freezing always helps Probably should have shoveled yesterday to be a Good Citizen and all that, but I was pissed about the storm. Remarkable how, starting late yesterday, my opinion on this turned around. This really was a unique event, even though it never got above what I consider low-to-moderate intensity here. But it's hard to find much fault with a 54-hour or so duration event. Absolutely beautiful walking around as it got light this morning. And it looks like there's a little more incoming?

Just measured about 2.5" on the deck before I hit ice. I measured a bit over 2.5" late Sunday, so I'm at least 5" for the whole event and maybe more depending on the great Compaction spirit. Side roads around here are mostly snow covered.