BlizzardNole

Yeah I call it "the dark" when the trees are bare, no gardening, and it's usually dreary, and snow is very rare most years anyway. I'm going to have to fix that when I retire in 5 years because 5-6 months of dark is way too much. But man is today beautiful!

Thanks for these updates. You're gonna be making a lot of guacamole ha. We've got relatives on the other side in Marco.

Wow the wind is ROARING out there! This should strip a lot of the remaining leaves off the trees. Lots of raking coming up next weekend with short sleeve shirts on.

Lantanas are annuals here and have to be replanted each year. As soon as we have the first freeze, they are gone. Looking downright wintry feeling tomorrow with strong winds and low 40s, but that is a big ridge for later into the week and next weekend. Get those grills ready!

Heavy rain east of I-95 and just light stuff up here. Shocking! My mother and niece just voted in person down in Calvert which took an hour and 45 minutes. They said the heavy rain started just as they finished and they feel bad for all those people in line. I somehow escaped the growing season ending for NW Montgomery and my tropical milkweeds and lantana are fine. I should be able to keep them for a while longer now. Gaithersburg airport reached 30 and that would have killed them instantly. This is one of the lantanas taken yesterday.

Some frost on roofs but only got to 34. My lantana shrubs live another day -- they die instantly at 32.

From LWX: "While it appears that the best frontogenetical forcing (along the 850mb boundary) may set up to our north and the best instability and tropical moisture (from the remnants of Zeta) may set up to our south..." Yep, I am expecting 0.2 or less here in the central MD desert.

I wish we could get the Chiefs at Denver game at 4! Look at this forecast -- yeah Denver gets snow in October but these temps are extraordinary: This afternoon: Snow. High near 19. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. (It's 13 degrees right now) Tonight: Snow, heavy at times. Low around 5. New snow accumulation of 4 to 6 inches possible. Monday: Snow likely, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 17. Monday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 2.

Gonna be weird going from the really warm weather we've been having, to highs in the 40s tomorrow, then back to the 60s Monday. Of course my wife's Denver relatives say pssshhhh

I was wondering what that might have been too -- maybe a severe outbreak, or a heavy rain event with wind?

I covered by cherished lantanas to hold on to them for a while longer. We got to 37 and had light frost, mostly on roofs and cars. Garden looks good for a while longer. Could use some rain though!

All the rain missing to the east. Gee what a shock!

Was pleasantly shocked to find 1.1 in the gauge. We needed that badly! It's the most rain from one event since August 4 and is about double all of the rainfall for the past five weeks combined.

LOL clouding up here in the desert too. Looking forward to my 0.2 to 0.3

Those rain totals for central MD look tasty, but I'll believe it when I see it. It has been so dry for so long. I was just remembering the freak 10/10/79 snow -- we got 2-3 inches in Calvert, so I wonder what central/northern MD saw? No one could believe what they were seeing. There was a heat wave 11 days later with mid-80s. The all-time record for Oct. 10 is 92.

That's really amazing. Here, it has been so dry that I had to mask up to cut the lawn because so much dust was being kicked up. As for Delta's leftovers: enjoy your rain S and E of I-95!

Years ago we had a 6-8 inch snowpack with about 0.5 of ice glaze on top. We had a clear, frigid night with a full moon and it was unreal! It was as if the whole world was shining in silver. We were taking one-foot square pieces of ice and listening to them slide hundreds of feet down the hill and into the woods. It was something. Nice day and weekend coming up. Hard to believe that last year on this date the temp hit 98 at DCA and 96 at Dulles!

Managed to get 0.3 in the central MD desert. Well less than an inch total over the last six weeks.

Looking forward to my 0.15 of rain

State College PA is supposed to be back online later today or tonight. Let's see how that coverage works for us.

Just cut the grass -- whew it's humid! So October 2 this Friday looks a little different from last October 2 huh? DCA reached of 98 and IAD 96. Yuk.

The pic is about the complete rock bottom that FSU football has hit. So LWX talking about 1-2" east of Route 15 and more (of course) east of I-95. I would be ecstatic with 0.75. I'd love some thunder too -- haven't had much of that at all.

Since September 3, I have received 0.15 on Sept. 10 and 0.2 on Sept. 26. Extra crispy! I'll be shocked to see more than a couple tenths on Tuesday. Nice and warm today though.

What a beautiful weekend. Didn't see my low but the closest station (Gaithersburg) hit 39. This morning's 7 AM obs ranged from low/mid 30s out west, to 60 at St Mary's City with that Bay water. Gonna have to water the gardens good today! Here is all my rain for the month, with none in sight: Sept 2: 0.5 Sept 3: 0.9 Sept 10: 0.15

Keep those feeders up for a few more weeks! I usually have a few travelers through the last week of September, and have seen them as late as Oct. 4. I am looking forward to some crisp fall weather this weekend.