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  1. GramaxRefugee
    Yeah, I thought you actually have to throw a pass to get "roughed". Dak didn't even pretend to pass.
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    Ended the month with 0.76" rainfall. (only a T for Sept 30.) Highest temp 92......lowest 49 Boring? You bet.
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    Light Rain Mitchellville.
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    BWI 11/8 IAD 10/29 DCA 11/24 RIC 11/7 Tie Rainfall 9.1”
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    Hmm, just glancing over it quickly, you may have a point. 2011 is still record wettest Sept at 13.32". Looks like 2010 and 1979 were on the wet side. Both produced about 14.5" snowfall following winters. 1985 almost same. Outlier is 1966 with 43" snowfall following. I recall 1985 was very warm Sept also. Not real analysis, but just looking at a few that jump out at me. Now that you bring it up.
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    Dry Sept -vs- snowfall amount: I investigated the 8 years mentioned by LWX in the AFD today regarding driest Septembers. (5 Driest Septembers BWI, DCA, IAD) Using BWI annual snowfall records, (normal 20.1 inches), I checked the following winters of each year for either normal, or above normal; rounding to the nearest inch. So basically, if a winter was 20" or higher it makes the winner's circle. (2005 wouldn't have made it without the rounding to 20, but eh, close enough) So, I was a bit surprised that only 2007, at 9" was below normal. Here's the years and following winter snowfall (Balto snow data): 1884 - 31" 1906 - 31" 1967 - 23" 1977 - 34" 1978 - 43" 2005 - 20" 2007 - 9" 2014 - 29" avg = 27.5 The 1977 was only at DCA; 1978 and 2014 only at IAD. Otherwise pretty good mix. Hope we don't see another 2007/8 winter; or worse.
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    SBY went to 42F. Not bad. 48 at my place
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    If it makes you feel any better, I noted that in Sept 1983 we hit 98, 98, 100 f on the 6th, 10th, 11th. Also 94 and 92 f on the 19th and 20th. (All records). This led to the coldest Christmas we ever had hitting record mins of 4, 0, amd 2 f on Dec 24th, 25th, 26th. Also hit our coldest temp on record of -7f on Jan 22. 1983-84 was not a real snowy winter though. (14.5") all numbers from BWI.
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    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.
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    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.
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    This thread title is like clik bait for Mid Atlantic forum. (I knew I shouldn't have looked. )
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    4th straight day of significant rainfall here. Today's the lowest at 0.21 (so far). Plenty humid.
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    Just getting a reasonably noisy T-storm in Mitchellville. Heavy rain, about 16:45L
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    Breezy rain just getting started in Mitchellville, 3:15 L. Under fairly dark clouds.
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    Just getting grazed by T-storm here now. Plenty of T/L, but sorta passing to our north.
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    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)
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    Emptied 1.18 from the gauge. Evidence of wind, small green branches down.
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    wife reports pellets hitting the skylight at my home station. now just heavy rain.
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    Downpour finally hitting here in Mitchellville at 3:20. We were dry-slotting here for a while.
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    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.
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    Lunch break measure in Mitchellville = 2.5" total with sleet falling.
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    SN+ in Mitchellville, PGCo (after a later start than most of ya'll. About 6:40 first flake.)
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    No precip here in AACo so far. DP 19
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    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..
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    DCA: 11/23 BWI: 10/30 IAD: 10/29 RIC: 11/10 Tiebreaker: 2.7" rain at IAD
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