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No need to warm it up -- ruby throats love the cold nectar! My tropicals are also not liking this crap weather. Looks like another day locked in the low 50s. Looking forward to finally seeing sun tomorrow.

The record low max for today at DCA is 58 and thought broken record for sure....until I noticed it was 59 just after midnight oh well. Look at these record low maxes all from 1907, yuuuuuk: June 1: 54 June 2: 53 June 11: 57 June 12: 62 June13: 59

Oh man had one of those yesterday at the Dogfishead Alehouse in Gaithersburg, with a juicy bacon cheddar burger. Mmmmmm! Got right about 1.0 yesterday and last night which was way more than the 0.6 I expected. Just drizzle today and an incredibly cold 50 degrees.

Ahhhh good ol' Mid Atlantic. Days of 80s and 90s, then FIFTIES and rain over Memorial Day Weekend, then back to sunny and 80s. We need the rain but the timing couldn't be worse for people. Nice morning out with partly sunny and 65

Really need the rain after getting mostly missed yesterday with just 0.1. Point/click for Friday and Friday night has total of 1.25 to 1.75, so using the Central MD rainfall formula (50% of the low end amount) yields about 0.6 which would be decent. (That formula works for snow too). I don't like seeing the thunderstorm language creeping in though -- we need stratiform rain to do well here. T-storms will just dodge.

Only 0.1 total as we do not do thunderstorms in Germantown but we have the stratiform rain coming Friday which we do well with.

We're visiting family a couple miles north of Huntingtown on Monday. Should I bring a box of 'em?

Got just under 0.5 in Germantown which was great. Hoping for 1.0 with the late week system and sun the rest of the weekend.

I have three 40-50 foot maples in my back yard and my next-door neighbor has a 50-foot pin oak. I have no cicadas while they have shells all over the trunk of that tree, their deck, fence, etc. I also sat out yesterday and saw cicadas flying towards their tree one after another, like it was an airport.

Had a decent shower a bit ago but hoping for more to get this pollen washed out. We won't get out of the 60s today but DCA was 80 just after midnight so that goes in the books as the very misleading "high" for the date. DCA got to 94 yesterday I feel for people that planned beach or pool parties this coming weekend with showers and highs upper 60s/low 70s, but that's what you get living in this area.

Finally heard one in the yard briefly a while ago -- "PHAR oooooooh.....PHAR oooooooh" I wish we could trade the horrible annual cicadas for these

It blew through Germantown at about 7 or 7:30 with some pretty big gusts and the temp dropped well down into the 70s. With the dry air it felt pretty cool.

Wait a stinkin' minute -- this article on heat concerns for the summer olympics says that Tokyo's average temperatures in late July and early August are the highest for any host city going back to 1984. Are they saying Tokyo's summer temps are higher than Atlanta's (1996)? Hot Olympics

Yeah it's pretty nice out there with the low humidity. I was looking at the NWS obs map and saw New River Bridge at 1 degree I clicked on it and found temps at -21 last night ha

Gawd I hate those annual cicadas! I've had just two or three of them chase me in from enjoying time on our deck before. They were really persistent last summer.

We had a pool growing up in Calvert and my parents still have it. It's really nice for summer family gatherings with their many grandkids. I remember doing grass cutting and weeding chores on a hot day as a kid then dropping into that pool Nestea plunge style

Wow that's weird. Could it be road salt being pushed onto the grass and affecting the roots on that side of the trees? We get more salt accumulation than snow around here.

Yup was moving our student out of her UMD dorm yesterday and saw quite a few on sidewalks. None here in Germantown yet.

Looking forward to beautiful weather the next couple of days. LWX hinted at a back door front possibility this weekend with the GFS/GGEM saying maybe...it would be great if we got upper 70s with that. But the Euro says no, you bake.

They are Autumn Blaze. I put them in 19 years ago after researching good shade trees (the back of our house and deck face WSW). Get this -- I read somewhere that they were SEEDLESS. Huge fail

Got the rest of the gardens planted in the nice weather yesterday -- tropical milkweeds, lantana and titan vincas. Get out deer and rabbits, nothing for you here! Anyone have large maple trees that are struggling? I have three that seeded so heavily that they were completely covered in brown spinners that made them look like it was late November instead of late April in my yard. Then they dropped and the trees are really struggling to leaf out. It's mid-May and they are only maybe halfway leafed out. I thought multiple branches were dead but they finally have some tiny leaf buds. I guess they'll finally be fully leafed out by June. That's crazy. Anyone else seeing this?

Yesterday was such a beautiful day to get the garden planting finished. I wish we had more days like that! May looks so great on paper with avg highs starting at 71 and going to 79, but it seems like days in the 70s are rare. Case in point DCA just recorded 10 straight days below/much below average, and just like clockwork here come the 90s.

“Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!”

More frozen than we some in some winter months around here

Just had strong gusts to 40-45 with soft, pea-sized hail and some thunder, temp dropped back to upper 40s. Brrrrrrr