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I found that beneath the grass (which I just mowed), I had mushrooms growing in my lawn.. Mushrooms! What lawn in a "severe drought" has mushrooms....

A bit of a "silent cold front" moving through the area now. Mesonet stations are showing 10F dew point drops within 20 minutes. Current going through Washington/Frederick Counties. Will likely see some 40's for lows tonight again.

I also spoke to Louis Uccellini recently, and he also said that they are working on it. No ETA. He got really animated about it though, so it should be good!

The coordination between the people in Omaha and local monitors is not the best. Good news (at least in MD) but in other places, it is getting better... slowly. It usually takes 2-4 weeks for the drought monitor to "catch up" and even then they are very hesitant to take areas out of drought.

I'm debating on mowing today, dealing with the damp grass in the blades, and having it short so the ground can dry out. Or waiting till the weekend so that the grass is dry but is gonna be 4" taller. Decisions.

Let the dry out begin...

Neeeeed.

That was a crazy game. They were out of it so many times. Got saved by the overturned call at home.

If I go on a Jebwalk in the summer, I'll make sure to take my machete.

"There's never so sure a bet, than from Wet to Dry, and Dry to Wet."

I love a good 2 day rainy / misty stretch, but we're now on Day 4 and I'm missing the sunshine just a little. The upcoming modified Polar airmass at the end of this week will be fantastic.

Correct, but it highly depends on the soil characteristics. The measurement here is Volumetric Water Content (WVC). Soil is made out of Soil, Air, and Water. The balance of which changes with precipitation and temperature. The soil fraction remains constant, usually between 50 and 60%. It is soil after all. The rest is either microscopic air pockets or water. The air pockets are just void spaces which water could occupy. When there are no air pockets left. It’s just soil and water which of course is called Mud. A VWC of .4 means it’s 40% water, which means that there likely isn’t much air left. This indicates that the soil can’t take much more water, and will start to run off into streams. The VWC in which that happens varies. Sand for example saturates as low as .2 while Clay can go to .5 or even slightly higher. It just depends on the soil present. We’re gathering data to try to estimate/ establish the thresholds not only each location but also each depth. In the future we hope to have some sort of parameter that goes from 0-100, so there isn’t the VWC guesswork of saturation.

The only thing I saw today was remotely interesting / impressive was the straight line wind damage near Buckeystown in Frederick Co. Line of power poles down (though there is reason to believe they were poorly inserted / already leaning) and some small pines that were snapped.

About a half an inch thus far... Thunder has been good.

I was just noticing that... the radar estimations tonight... did not do great! Overcooked in a lot of places. Anyway... about 2/3" of an inch here. .4" of which fell in about 10 minutes.