Mrs.J

5 minutes ago, losetoa6 said:

^ Nice in Fredrock tonight . Its breaking up fast to the north though . I don't expect anything here .

Still raining and I am well over an inch. Will see if I can stay awake to get the final reading. We needed it. Have missed out the past week. 

Sitting under this storm. Pouring with occasional lightning. 

12 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

That’s a great story! Thanks for sharing.

I’m sure this is common knowledge, but it’s pretty easy to change the colors of a hydrangea by changing the pH value of the soil, but I don’t have a preference, so I let it do whatever it wants. Interestingly, mine was all blue the last two years, and now it’s mixed. I guess it will look like @Mrs.J’s soon.

Yep I have wanted to mess with the pH but have left it alone. It has actually gotten too big for our small yard. Was supposed to be a Mini. Going to dig it up this fall and take it my daughters trainer’s house as she has a bigger yard up on a mountain. I will miss it but it needs a better home. 

As we missed out on rain yesterday, went out to water my gardens. This is only about 1/4 of the blooms I got off of my hydrangea.
Enjoy!

19 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Truly a hit-or-miss day. With SBCAPE well over 4,000 j/kg regionally the risk for numerous wet microbursts existed so the watch box is more than justified. Amazing how it's so varied across the area. In Reisterstown, we've got about 4 or 5 storms bubbling up around us but nada falling from the sky.

Yep it is. Dry over here all day. Still under the watch but really not expecting anything. All to the East today. Will turn on my Thunderstorm Pandora station and fade to sleep. 

While over at our inner circle friends house yesterday in NOVA, inner circle as we board youngest daughters pony there and have been together through out these past 4 months. A storm popped up over our house. Came home to a 1/2" in the back yard gauge. So Won't have to water the gardens just the deck today. 

Ok got creative tonight. Bacon wrapped chicken thighs and zucchini corn fritters. 

43 minutes ago, George BM said:

Probably in the 1am hour. Radar image is from 5:33utc (1:33am edt). The downpours were moving SE.

Thanks! Yep I can see my location under those oranges and yellows. 

26 minutes ago, Stormfly said:

Radarscope archives for 30 days on Pro tier 2.

I got a lightning alert around 0340 and was surprised and saw action well to our south.  Caught a few flashes on the tower PTZ, pretty meh TBH.  But soaking rain for those under them!

I have RadarScope but do not have the pro tiers. If anyone has it can you just look and see what time my area got the rain? You don't have to post a photo just curious with the time frame. Location is under my name. 

3 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

I did not hear a thing either.  Is there a way to look back at radar for several hours?

I thought there used to be a way but not remembering. 

13 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

Woke up to 0.6 in the gauge -- I think it was after midnight but not completely sure.  I'll count it as July 1.

Woke up and saw that it rained. Surprised to see .77” in the gauge?!?! Did not hear a thing.

Dinner tonight. Asian pork tenderloin with roasted yellow squash and zucchini and onion scapes. 

And last night had beef verde burritos. 

5 hours ago, jewell2188 said:

This weather has been absolutely boring! 

It has been absolutely beautiful for the start up of Horse Shows. Having to wear a mask at the rings in oppressive heat is something that I am not looking forward to. 

Mr J and I decided on a deck date night. While in the past I took a Sushi we got take out tonight.  

1 hour ago, H2O said:

Happy birthday, @stormtracker!!!!

 

Happy Birthday!!! @stormtracker

1 hour ago, mappy said:

Tomorrow looks fantastic!!! hoping the storms decide to hold off until later in the evening so i can indulge on crabs and beer and forget that I'm closer to 40 than 30

My mom just sent me a wonderful recipe for crab balls! They are like mini crab cakes that you can pop into your mouth. Going to get some crab to try them out. 

13 minutes ago, yoda said:

Kinda surprised that those two storms out west are not severe warned... have pretty decent hail cores on them per radarscope 

Hail core went just to my West but got close to my house. Still pouring.

Edit: they just warned the storm coming out of Loudoun into MoCo. Where we board my daughters pony my friends farm is getting hail.

Getting dumped on over here. The storm coming through has some purple on it at the junction of 340 and 15. Lot of lightning and thunder. 

18 hours ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Ohhh, tasty!!  Is that tsztiki dolloped on the top there?  (not sure I spelled that correctly, but I do like the stuff!!).  Rice cookers are great, by the way!  Had a roommate in grad school who had one.  It made just about perfect rice every time!!!

Yep it is tzatziki. Love the stuff!

Pork Souvlaki with peppers and yellow squash on rice pilaf. Experimented with the pilaf and made it in the rice cooker. Turned out good.   

9 hours ago, yoda said:

I can see distant lightning from the storms in C MD looks like from here in Springfield, VA

It's likely either the storms out north of Leesburg that are in MD or the storms west of Middleburg in extreme western Loudoun County 

You might have seen the storms over top of me last night. Was a pretty decent storm. 

34 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Is that chilled for a short time after baking?  Not that it would be bad either way (hot/cold)...for the fish.

Nope served hot. 

I don’t have to have on my Thunderstorm Pandora station to fall asleep. Mother Nature is on it. 

2 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Cool...and thanks for sharing!  One thing...I wonder if a few slices of avocado would be good, adding to that (or would that be too much).  I'm a fan of avocado!

Sure! I would add it after baking though. Oh and you cook it in a 9x13. And salt and pepper the fish. 

Just got dumped on. Unfortunately my rain gauge on my weather station must be clogged as it did not collect a reading. Nice garden variety t-storm.