BlizzardNole

I used to complain about Germantown being dry LOL. It's got nothing on the full-blown desert that is southern Calvert. Radar is now clear that no rain will fall here again today and it won't next week either. We won't get real rain here until late fall when we start getting those nino-fueled Gulf lows.

Based on radar, I will be out watering the garden later

That concert indoors? I know there's another concert at Ravens stadium tonight and that could get interesting with big t-storms. 85/78 here with the blue sky starting to show with southerly winds pushing the smoke out.

Nothing but smoke and parched ground here. I'm not expecting any rain this evening either

My niece and a friend are going to a concert at Ravens stadium tonight. Eeeek

93/77 Hx 107 but it feels hotter out than the 100 degree days we had. Just nasty We are halfway through met summer. I will be happy to see September

That's insane. I've been wondering how many houses in the upper mid-west don't have AC and can't hide in filtered air like most of us. Some places in upper MI were near 1200 at times and I bet less than half of homes have AC up there. I don't smell smoke yet, but the air is getting that hazy look

85/73 with no wind at all and the air is getting smoky. I feel bad for the guys building my neighbor's new deck out in this

OMG

86/72 in central Calvert and the sky is blue for now. Our daughter is in Alpena in northern MI for work and sent this picture. That is BAD

We had the classic HHH summer days in the 70s and 80s from pollution, but I never remember having wildfire smoke. I hope we don't get it like a couple years ago - that sucked

Got 0.15 to add to the 0.25 from Thursday. Calvert with a departure of -7.0 inches for the year is the worst in the region west of the Bay. And now there's no chance for rain in sight. Crushing drought continues

Can confirm sharp cutoff - I'm about 2 miles ESE of the Prince Frederick Mesonet and only got about a quarter inch

Line looked very promising coming in from the west but weakened as it got here with only 0.30. Terrible drought continues here

Yikes that hook on that Stafford storm as it heads towards, gulp, Charles County

Those purples on radar over Germantown look rough. Might be some trees down there

Alright just like that the cloud deck is breaking up. C'mon stir up that moisture!

I hope these meaningless sprinkles and overcast don't ruin our chances for showers later. Cloudy and 77/74

Missed close by a thunderstorm last night. I got about a half inch, but the Mesonet two miles away got 1.33

Well, I'm glad I got the 0.89 from the Saturday storm or I'd be looking at a shutout for the event.

This FFW from NE VA shows how crazy heavy these storms can be when they sit over one area! Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 3 to 5 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible in the warned area.

Euro has another nasty heatwave for next week. Here's Friday, July 17

Hope you're right. I still expect little rainfall through August with many days between 95-105. Nothing here yesterday. This evening looks blobby and hit or miss so have to get lucky

I just went out around Prince Frederick and it's beat up - lots of trees down. A house a couple doors from us has two big pine trees down in their back yard. One smashed a recreation area they set up and another narrowly missed their fire pit. Another tree is down with the top partially in the street. I want more rain but keep the severe please! My AC (heat pump) wouldn't start when the power came back on last night and I was getting worried. I finally read that I needed to turn it off at the thermostat, the breaker box, and the switches by the unit in the basement and leave off for a half hour; some kind of system reset. That worked

0.89 from last night is the total so far and is probably similar for PF. Based on radar, I think they got a lot more down in the southern part of the county. Forecast has us dry here through tonight and more showers tomorrow. Other than last night, it has been extremely dry here.