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Incredible weather alert

The summer of clouds and humidity. I had another heavy shower today. This dry, cool spell sure has been humid and damp lol. I'm looking forward to the first real frontal passage of the fall. Sudden strong NW winds and dry, cool air, with blue sky. 

Weaseled our way into a shower here. Frederick steps up its game when there’s upslope.

Cloudy the last 2 days with, at most, some periodic drizzle.  

Next.

There is a haze as well going on. Smoke at higher altitude I guess, but there was some mixing down possibly responsible for what I smelled on a walk early this morning.  

Even though the air quality alert was taken off the forecast here in Delaware I can smell forrest fire smoke. 

Epic basketball weather alert with veiled sunshine and legendary temps to start the day. My lower back strain (or whatever it is) was epic for a few days recently as well. Getting older is something.

1 hour ago, Mrs.J said:

So we have stuff we need to get done, but came out to have lunch on the deck and have been sitting here for close to 2 hours. Nice to not hear all the air conditioners running non stop. The birds are singing and the cows are mooing. Glorious! 

The argument could be made that this is the nicest day we've had all year.  Those that don't like warmer temps, get drier air...and vice versa, contrapositive, etc.

McLaurin is underrated. I can’t picture him as anything less than a top 5 receiver in the league. Sign him and be done with it. He earned it.

2 hours ago, mappy said:

No mist up here. Cloudy and cool 

Same here.  Actually feels pretty awesome lol, though I'll probably be done with this reset by tomorrow and ready for the return to seasonable weather.

So I had an interview (2nd one) at 430.  Talk about timing lol.  I don't think I heard any thunder, though...but definitely was pouring here for a bit.  

Looks like that cell approaching Hagerstown is going to be the make or break it here for this event in FDK.

Catoctin Creek is running pretty low again. This area could use a deluge at this point, but the models aren’t showing a whole lot from this event for the rain shadow zones. Hopefully we can at least get a line of cells to move through.

So when does the cold front arrive? Asking for a friend.

CoCoRaHS for July 3 to today shows widespread 7-9 plus inch amounts in southern MoCo and 4-6 inches around Gaithersburg, compared to 0.8 here.  What an incredible micro-climate desert this place is, and it's not just this year.  This is normal.  What a tough place to try to have a gardening hobby.

lol literally every storm has split this area. Grass is starting to get a brown tint too. The valley is what the valley knew it was.

Barely any precip here lately. Need to rely on that next batch later this afternoon.

So got a nice .36” out of that storm. But you know it is still so humid out when the windows are all steamed up. Looking out the back I can usually see the tree line in the dark. But the windows are so fogged over you cannot see anything. 

PA really does seem to do better with storms overall. I always kinda liked their climate (aside from probably more clouds). Less concerns about the sleet line in the winter and closer to shortwaves swinging through the Midwest. Their roads do suck, though.

Typical storm death as it approached mby, only to explode across the usual storm track over Strasburg.  Picked up .05" and have since been listening to constant thunder from that storm the last 30 minutes.  Oh, the frustration of living here.

Seeing some action developing near Hagerstown.  It's got a long road ahead, but something to keep an eye on.  No shortage of fuel here.

Cell just popped up out of nowhere. It is raining!

Free car washes are fun, though. Puddle producing downpour in progress rn.

With Frederick being a microclimate, I am not surprised that it decided to pour while I was on a bball break.

Classic, sunny midsummer day with fair weather cumulus clouds.  Top tier stuff before it gets spicy the next few days.