BlizzardNole

The difference between the haves and the have-nots with rain this summer in this area is really stark. I'll be surprised if I don't get shut out today

Man it's brutal! You know it's hot when tropical milkweeds are wilting

Wow! Let's hope our little micro-deserts score today, because tomorrow is looking dry and we won't have another chance for a while. Gonna be nice tomorrow though!

1.6 for the month so far, and more than half that was on 7/1. Walking on my lawn feels like concrete under the crunchy grass and I'm getting big cracks in the garden beds, even with all the watering. 6.7 for NHK? I have just 7.45 for May, June and July combined!

Hope we score a t-storm tomorrow. Off topic but I looked at that insane Feb. 1899 winter to see some numbers -- out of a 7 day period that year had 5 each record low maxes and mins, not to mention the all the snow. Crazy DY NMX NMN NPCP NS RMX /YEAR LOMX/YEAR RMN /YEAR HIMN/YEAR MXPCP YEAR MXSN YEAR 09 46 30 0.09 0.2 70 /2001 10 /1899 -7 /1899 46 /1990 1.92 1885 5.4 1906 10 46 30 0.10 0.2 68 /1960+ 4*/1899 -8 /1899 53 /1925 1.06 2018 9.3 1926 11 46 30 0.09 0.2 76 /1932 12 /1899 -15*/1899 48 /2020 1.91 1983 16.4*1983 12 46 30 0.09 0.2 74 /1999 11 /1899 4 /1899 51 /1932 1.37 1985 7.0 1899 13 47 31 0.09 0.3 72 /1951 10 /1899 2 /1917 53 /1880 1.77 1971 12.0 1899 14 47 31 0.10 0.2 73 /1990 17 /1916 4 /1905 54 /1984 0.98 1940 4.9 1885 15 47 31 0.09 0.2 77 /1949 18 /1943 -6 /1899 52 /1909 1.38 1958 12.9 1958

I'm very happy with 0.45 from the edge of a cell that blew up just south of me. Some places just a few miles east got 1.8 in a short period of time, but I'll take the 0.45 and run with it!

Edit: wow the one I thought was missing me expanded north just in time to clip us pretty good for a few minutes

Here is one from last year just hatched

Here's a caterpillar munching on a tropical milkweed flower

I use tropical milkweed in our butterfly garden to bring in the monarchs. Swallowtails and hummingbirds also love the nectar from the orange/red flower clusters. Being tall weeds (easily 5 feet), they look best in the back with stuff in front of them -- I use annual vinca and lantana since deer and rabbits don't eat that stuff.

Nice pic! I expect to have monarch caterpillars soon

Got 0.2 from a shower today and 0.1 yesterday. Family in northern Calvert report a big hit and power out for two hours.

Man there are some places in northern VA and southwestern MontCo that have really been cashing in the last few days!

Got done grilling and whoosh here comes a surprise shower outta nowhere. Got done just in time.

Gorgeous day out. Been watching those heavy cells training over SW of Philly and glad it's not us. Got 73 with partly sunny skies at 2:30 PM on July 3! Must be what Deep Creek is like.

No thunderstorm action here as usual but did manage 0.8 total of rain from showers which is twice what I was expecting. Good for the lawn.

Welp, that's 0.11 better than I've gotten so far! I've had three cells miss to the north since yesterday, including this one a little bit ago. Sun's out now and radar looks clear.

Zone forecast saying 1-2" just for tomorrow night. Haha nope that'll my July total. No complaints on temps though -- down to 73!

Glad I watered my parched gardens a couple hours ago because what looked like a can't-miss solid line went poof right as it got here. Nice refreshing gust front though. Better luck tomorrow? We'll see. I'll go with an over/under of 0.3 for the Thurs-Fri event.

Noooooooooooo! Just heard my first annual cicada today. I hate them things!

Gotta agree with you there. Our average high through much of July is 89/90 so I don't get why they count "90-degree days" which are basically average. I'd count 95-degree days.

This WTOP article about DC's heat islands says that "...on Tuesday, when temperatures were in the mid-to-upper 90s, parts of the city like Rock Creek Park were actually in the 70s." Wow, I thought woods could drop air temps by up to 9 degrees, but this much? DC Heat Islands

We were talking about the exact same thing yesterday! We were on the deck and saw a Southwest Airlines plane with its distinctive colors way up there and said what ever happened to the old "hazy hot and humid?" Like you said back in the 70s and 80s the sky was milky looking and even the damn air was bright from haze. These days we have really clear air with the heat. It's nice.

I read where only 44% of homes in the Seattle area have AC. Not good with forecasted high of 100 today and 108 tomorrow. Tacoma has 101/111 and Portland 112/112. My gawd. Another cloudy start today, but it's gonna be a warm one later!

Whoa just looked at eastern shore radar -- was that expected?