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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.

For anyone interested, here is the official notifications for the ending of the NAM and friends. https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2026/scn26-47_Retirement_of_NAM_SREF_HREF_HiresW_NAM_MOS.pdf And the starting of the RRFS/REFS https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2026/scn26-48_RRFS_and_REFS_Implementation.pdf

People in here who complain that "it's too windy here" haven't lived in actually windy places. 10-15 mph is perfect in the summer.

Careful what you wish for.... I got clipped by the pop-up shower around 1:30p. Got a whopping 0.02" out of it!

Matt is correct about it being an upcoming feature although you can submit a data request here. We send it to you in a CSV file.

uggghhhhh

This looks like Murren...

Please no

Beautiful Morning. Couldn't ask for better.

Back Door Cold Front... Northeast Marine Layer.... Ocean Wedge... whatever you want to call it.

Climatologically, our peak BDCF season is March & April, so it's not surprising.

#wedge

I got poured on. Overflowed my large rain barrel faster than I expected.

Worked outside this evening doing some yard work. Perfect temp, dews could be lower. Can't have it all.

Too hot, bring back the 50's.

El Nino starting to rage and the MJO moving into 7-8-1 spells SE Ridge flexing it's muscles early.

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It took my brother 1hr 53min to get through TSA at BWI this AM. He said one of the issues is that people are showing up too early for their flights in the morning, so there is a huge crush at 6AM instead of the steady stream from 6 to 8AM.

Don't knock it till you try it. nah, -10F and sunny (no wind) is the best.

Y'all are crazy. I'd much prefer -10F than 90F. If it's 90F it better be 20% RH and breezy.

As far as I can tell, the 90F high temperature measured in Hancock today by the Mesonet was the highest temperature measured in Maryland for the date (03/22). The previous record was 88F (tied at multiple sites and dates). It's definitely not the March all-time though ; That record is 97F on 03/30/1998 in Downtown Baltimore.

Went out to Annapolis today and it was amazing. 15 deg cooler along the water. Hancock low of 35 and High of 90 is crazy. We never get a diurnal of 55 degrees. I'm gonna have to take a look back and see when that last happened in the state.