BlizzardNole

3 hours ago, mattie g said:

First confirmed sighting this morning! A male stopped by the backyard feeder at about 9:00 am.

Had our first on April 22 -- a male.  My parents in Calvert saw their first one the same day and said it was the fourth straight year that they saw their first hummingbird on April 22.

Don't have a gauge but looks like a little more than a half inch based on rainfall maps and local reports.  That helps but need more!  I hate to do this but I'm hoping for a long duration stratiform rain later this week with one of those southern stream systems.

Bright and sunny and 49

Got a good looking line heading in with some lightning.  Got both pollen-encrusted cars out in the driveway with some car soap squirted on 'em

Nice morning out now with breeze and 60s.  Really need rain bad as the last few chances missed and my yard is like concrete and everything is pollen encrusted.  I'm a little worried as this is lines and cluster of thunderstorms which almost always miss this area.  I need a long duration synoptic rain to cash in.

Wow got down to 35.  Close call for some plants I left out

Overcast creeping in keeping temps down a little - will make for a nice walk in a bit.  They are cooking up in New Eng with multiple low/mid 90s

I hope we can score some rain tonight

On 4/10/2023 at 5:45 PM, FXW176 said:

Emerged 4.6. Released today.

Very nice!  I have 5 black swallowtail chrysalises and am keeping them in a cool part of the house hoping they'll wait a few more weeks.

Went for a walk - whew it's hot! 

Some of the temps near water are wild to see -- 60 at Rehoboth and mid-80s a few miles inland; 83 on Kent Island and 63 just across the bridge (4 miles)

Still 80 at almost 9 pm!  I have a lot of weeding and garden prep to do this weekend and I'll be wearing a jacket LOL

Those are some impressive gusts!  Dulles at 68 whoa

We have a 3-4" thick, 12 foot long branch down from one of our trash trees (maples).  Glad it didn't hit anything 

I've noticed the maple trees seem more loaded than ever with seeds.  Mine are completely covered and I'm not looking forward to the onslaught.  Just driving around you see clusters of maples decked out in reddish/brown seeds. 

Jealous of those 70s in WV and even SW PA

Quite  bit of the area at just 25-50% of normal over the last 30 days.  We will need a couple good rainmakers in April.  Eastern NC looking really crispy

6 minutes ago, yoda said:

Looks like some decent storms up in S PA... too bad they will likely stay north of us

Lots of lightning in those!  Looks like a June radar

It is NICE out there!  I hope that boundary stays further north tomorrow and Sat

2 hours ago, nj2va said:

 

Where do I sign?

That looks good to me.  Bring on spring!  Any way we could get a +5 April, average May and a -3 June?

The walk down 1st Street from Union Station was fun this morning with the canyon effect freeze-drying my face.  Ahhhh March in the MA!

Nice discussion on the DMV.  I've lived here all my life (except college) and all my family is here.  My wife's from here too.  But we want out and I have just a couple years left.  One thing this winter and other recent snowless winters have showed me is I do not want to live in a climate that has months of forlorn bare trees and brown ground, but no snow.  That means the Carolinas and Tennessee are out. 

I'd rather have a warm climate with a long gardening season and travel once a year for snow.  We are contemplating Florida, but those damn hurricanes (and not the sucky football team down there ).  One area that might be a little less risk for hurricanes seems like the northeast FL area like St. Augustine.  Lots to think about.

You know it's bad when we're getting grill topper pics from Garrett County!

It'll be interesting if that holds for a few days because you just know it will tick north at the last minute

Hope we cash in on one of these.  We had a really cruddy winter in 2013 but managed to get this on March 25

My gawd 1903/04 and 1904/05 were FRIGID!  I remember how cold those late 70s winters were and they had 39 and 48 days <32.  Man 1904 and 1905 had 69 and 61?!?

19 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said:

Okay, totally idiot question that will again out me as one of the youngest members here -- though I bet @Cobalt knows the answer to this anyway. What was so special about '93 locally? I understand how nuts the whole system was, but it looks like just a solid MECS - maybe HECS out west - every time I look at the snow map. 

Superstorm 93 can be divisive around here because although it was an incredible event, it wasn't much for some peoples' yards in our area.  I lived in Calvert then and we got 6 inches then sleet, then rain and the temp spiked to 50.  Got a couple inches of back end snow later to freshen up the slush.  It was one hell of a gut punch seeing a raging blizzard in part of the deep south while I got wet snow to rain.  Ohhhh what could have been had there been a better antecedent air mass and a track farther east.  That one event had a lot of influence on me leaving southern MD once I was locked into DC for work.

Got my trays of milkweed going so they'll be ready to plant in early May -- after we endure a few weeks in April with blocking and coastal lows bringing low 40s and rain.  Watch it happen

Running Springs, CA knows how to do car-toppers