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  1. GramaxRefugee
    1.68 in the Davis so far. Real gauge looks less, but we'll see. Was just out, and steady rain continues.
  2. GramaxRefugee
    0.85 so far. Been fairly steady all day. Temp 54
  3. GramaxRefugee
    Seems to happen every month on mine. Poplar seeds are the worst. Devised a new screen/protector gadget, and it helps. But during leaf season, the Davis rarely agrees perfectly with the normal gauge.
  4. GramaxRefugee
    1.72" total rain. Hi temp was at 10am too.
  5. GramaxRefugee
    0.41" Was training almost right over us, maybe a little north, per radar. Would've reported earlier but forgot how to work the rain gauge. (30 days of dust and pollen included)
  6. GramaxRefugee
    At 6:15 we got my first drops of rain since 9/13 Not very measureable. Guess no more than 0.02" But it's a start.
  7. GramaxRefugee
    Precipitation? Not a drop. 60f for my low.
  8. GramaxRefugee
    Yeah, I thought you actually have to throw a pass to get "roughed". Dak didn't even pretend to pass.
  9. GramaxRefugee
    BWI 11/8 IAD 10/29 DCA 11/24 RIC 11/7 Tie Rainfall 9.1”
  10. GramaxRefugee
    Zoysia. We have established it on a sunny, south facing slope. Wish we had started it asap, before fooling with the usual fescues, etc. Nothing else thrives in that environment without irrigation of some sort. Problem is that it takes long to establish unless you pay an arm and a leg for sod. Most have success with plugs, which is what we did. Purchased from a local nursery. Once established, it is hard to kill, and pushes out most weeds. Less fertilizing, less mowing, less weedicide. My son is a home builder in central NC, and he installs many zoysia lawns. But, there are other hybrids that they can choose from down there. We are limited here, but if you have sunshine, I really recommend it. ETA: On the planting schedule you mentioned...I think you are supposed to plant it in the spring/summer, not fall. Opposite of cool season grasses like fescue. Zoysia is a warm season grass. Hence, it's not used much north of PA.
  11. GramaxRefugee
    Had one that wouldn't stop chewing on the hummingbird feeder. Trapped it in a live trap and released it across the river. (And warned it about my 3 strike policy). That's all it took. We have many squirrels here, but only that one psycho case ever bothered the feeder. They're not all alike.
  12. GramaxRefugee
    4th straight day of significant rainfall here. Today's the lowest at 0.21 (so far). Plenty humid.
  13. GramaxRefugee
    Just getting a reasonably noisy T-storm in Mitchellville. Heavy rain, about 16:45L
  14. GramaxRefugee
    Breezy rain just getting started in Mitchellville, 3:15 L. Under fairly dark clouds.
  15. GramaxRefugee
    Just getting grazed by T-storm here now. Plenty of T/L, but sorta passing to our north.
  16. GramaxRefugee
    DT did, further back than that. (Sorry, no link but most of us can imagine it, in his entertaining style of writing. ) And that's the thing. These patterns just come along and always have. I'm old. I remember. (Except when I don't. Sorry, I'm old)
  17. GramaxRefugee
    Emptied 1.18 from the gauge. Evidence of wind, small green branches down.
  18. GramaxRefugee
    wife reports pellets hitting the skylight at my home station. now just heavy rain.
  19. GramaxRefugee
    Downpour finally hitting here in Mitchellville at 3:20. We were dry-slotting here for a while.
  20. GramaxRefugee
    Quite possible. Install 4 different units around your site and get 4 different readings. We have so much nice gadgetry these days that it's tempting to unpack the box and expect it to be right. But it's often not. I had a met friend in the old days who had , (at one time) 15 instrument shelters in his yard in Burtonsville. Learned a lot.
  21. GramaxRefugee
    Lunch break measure in Mitchellville = 2.5" total with sleet falling.
  22. GramaxRefugee
    SN+ in Mitchellville, PGCo (after a later start than most of ya'll. About 6:40 first flake.)
  23. GramaxRefugee
    No precip here in AACo so far. DP 19
  24. GramaxRefugee
    1.5 " here. Drove out about 7:15 all roads snowy. Return 9:00 and starting to get salt water slush in many places. One car slid off of Rte 424..
  25. GramaxRefugee
    DCA: 11/23 BWI: 10/30 IAD: 10/29 RIC: 11/10 Tiebreaker: 2.7" rain at IAD
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