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Winter 2024-25 Discussion/Speculation √

On 6/10/2024 at 7:05 AM, WxUSAF said:

Gorgeous windows open sleeping weather these last several days. Except for the catbird that starts squawking at 4am…. 

On 6/10/2024 at 7:23 PM, North Balti Zen said:

hoo buddy, the catbirds are LOUD this spring up my way. Just super eager to share all the news in their lives with...anyone in ear shot. At all times. 

Oh man. There's been a bird singing, almost hysterically, all day long, every day, very close to my house. It's a tiny house so it's inescapable. People hear it on work calls if a window is open lol. I'm not super versed in bird calls but know many common ones and have been having a tough time. Closest thing sometimes is a cardinal. I also thought I had more than one Close Loud Bird. But, as some of you have already guessed...the culprit is....a mockingbird! All day, every day. Going strong right now. This one is a legit opera singer. So many sounds and songs, it is wild. I'm impressed. And I'm slowly going insane.

25 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Had my coffee early on the porch, then came into work today and the heat was on.  Wth?

Definite coffee on porch morning today. Low 54. Soon it will be soup in the morning..

Nice fall day up here, deep overcast

7 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Breeze was awesome all yesterday...picked up even more when a small line of showers marched through mid-afternoon, but then it mostly cleared off after dinner last evening, when (like most of you), we went back out to enjoy those breezes again!

Nice! You've had a string of great sky shots.

Appears to be a little iridescence in some of these high clouds

12 hours ago, high risk said:

I think that tomorrow will be a SLGT for most of the area except western and far northern counties.    Good agreement now among the CAMs that storms will erupt along the front early tomorrow afternoon in an environment with decent shear and instability.

6 hours ago, yoda said:

Its MRGL on the early new day 1 (0600z) but LWX seems to agree with you in their morning disco

more on that in the 9:59 a.m. update

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/...
No major changes to the previous forecast. Have worked with SPC
to see if a Slight Risk is warranted for portions of the area
east of I-95. Will continue to evaluate the 12Z guidance to
collaborate any risk updates with the 1630Z outlook. Previous
discussion follows...

Main story here: rain. A LOT of rain. Water laying everywhere. Nearly 5" in the gauge no lie

It's been a mix of clouds and filtered sun here, hummmiddd...first rain now

eta: thunder

Uptick in dragonflies today

I think (she) was looking for a spot to lay eggs, but was getting too much attention from a curious crowd of black vultures (I'm not dead yet!) and there was even a fox looking on! Back to the water...

Well hello there

There are a couple fireflies IMBY

On 4/26/2024 at 9:20 AM, BlizzardNole said:

I want to add both to my garden this year.  My mom had some last year and her garden looked like one of those butterfly exhibits!

Yes, literally!

Low of 37

21 minutes ago, Paleocene said:

Was very cool to see a ton of people out in the local park by my house, just watching. We had good timing with the cloud deck here as it approached maximum. Everything muted, gray, and cool, but still quite bright. A sort of eerie light when you look at the woods or the sky away from the sun and see blue... but it's just not the right shade. Awesome!

Same here, lucked out on clouds.

24 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

We got lucky! Incredible!!! Photo is a photo from the back of my camera. Good luck all!

Amazing!

Just home in MD but super cool dim weirdness nonetheless

April 8th Eclipse- Least Easy One To See In My Lifetime

10 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

I'm looking for a batch of native flowering seeds that I can scatter over a 100 x 100 ft area. It's slightly moist, with intermittent sun. Looking to just throw them and see what grows. Any suggestions?

Those are both good suggestions for seed mix sources. I grow flowering native perennials but have never tried a seed mix scatter/meadow approach over a large area. Has anyone? Let us know how it goes if you try it?

T&L

I just started a bunch of flower seeds for my annuals pollinator patch. Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower) which I HIGHly rec for anyone who wants to see a lot of butterflies and hummingbirds ..also zinnias (same) which I'm kinda obsessed with and started 10 types. Some cosmos. Also genovese basil, persian basil, flat parsley, dill. I may pop in some cucumbers but they usually break my heart all too soon, aaaaand I'm skipping tomatoes/other again this year.

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Yes there are. Every county in the state will get them. The three biggest challenges with this project are finding appropriate locations, coordinating the land use agreements with the owners, and getting good weather to prep the site and deploy the equipment. We just installed the first urban mesonet tower in Baltimore City last week and it was a tough process to get a site that had enough open space to capture the nearby environment appropriately. 

Got you, thanks for the additional info. Good luck with all the logistics!

I'm not chasing the eclipse but I'm living vicariously through a friend who is wrapping the eclipse into a two week trip to Mexico. Looking pretty good for her.

3 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Just give me April 4th clear so we can install a mesonet station in PG county.

EJ, just curious are there plans to put stations in Harford, AA, Calvert, and Cecil? I am guessing so as the map says 52 (!) additional sites planned. Great project, thumbs up.